---
name: "Jack Ackerman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-ackerman"
fi1m_id: "jack-ackerman"
imdb_id: "nm0009978"
tmdb_id: 11416
wikidata_id: "Q60830045"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1931"
died: "1 January 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:59:47.122273+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jack Ackerman

## Identity

Jack Ackerman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-ackerman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-ackerman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0009978
- **TMDB ID:** 11416
- **Wikidata ID:** Q60830045
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60830045, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009978/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11416

Composer. Born 1 January 1931 in New Jersey, USA. Died 1 January 1991.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1931, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 1 January 1991
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60830045, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009978/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11416

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Shadows*](https://film.one/film/shadows.md) (74)

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## Biography

Jack Ackerman was an American actor, songwriter and composer. He appeared as Jack in John Cassavetes' *Shadows* (1960) and composed the music and served as musical director for *Faces* (1968). He also worked as musical director on *Husbands* (1970) and acted in other Cassavetes films including *Machine Gun McCain* (1969) and *The Killing of a Chinese Bookie* (1976).

Ackerman wrote songs for several films, including title songs for *Wild Harvest* (1962) and *Tell Me in the Sunlight* (1965). He contributed to the Broadway production of *The Ziegfeld Follies* and had a songwriting partnership with Billy Preston. His song "Lasting Love", co-written with Hunt Stevens, was a hit for Sal Mineo in 1957.

Born on 20 September 1931 in New Jersey, Ackerman died on 27 April 1991 in Los Angeles.

*Sources: imdb.com, discogs.com, variety.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shadows* (1960), Fi1m 74, as Jack — [page](https://film.one/film/shadows.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Killing of a Chinese Bookie* (1976), as Musical Director
- *Lepke* (1975), as Little Augie
- *Capone* (1975), as Adam Heyer
- *Machine Gun McCain* (1969), as Britten (uncredited)
- *Faces* (1968), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *Shadows* (1960), as Jack — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/shadows.md)

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