Jack Webbs Daughter Lisa Breen Says the Dragnet Star Was a Good Dad: He Was There

Lisa Breen was only three months old when her parents, Jack Webb and Julie London, split in 1953, but she stayed close to her father. “He was a good dad,” Lisa tells Closer of Jack, best known as no-nonsense L.A. cop Joe Friday on Dragnet. “If there was ever anything I wanted or needed, he was there for me.”

While Joe Friday rarely showed off his softer side, Jack could be a mush, especially when it came to his pets. “He was a great animal lover,” says Lisa. “He had a Great Dane named Friday and a standard poodle named Mister, and those dogs adored him. He walked into the room, and they would freeze, like, ‘Oh, he’s here! The king!'”

During a childhood birthday party at her mother’s house, Lisa recalls, the family’s German shepherd puppy, David, got hit by a car. “My dad was there, and he was so great,” she says. “I was hysterical, and I just remember how he held me and let me cry.”

And though Joe Friday almost never smiled, Jack could be a crack-up. “He was brilliant and funny,” gushes Lisa. “If you really got to him and said something funny, oh, he had a great laugh.”

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