Jack Tenner was born on 2 October 1920 in Kiev, Ukraine. He was an actor, known for The '70s (2000). He was married to Georgann Johnson and Hallie Jean Bialac. He died on 13 October 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He was a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who was involved in many of the city's civil rights struggles, including fighting restrictive housing covenants in the 1940s and helping to elect some of the area's most prominent African American officeholders including the late Mayor Tom Bradley.