Second child to Ljubomir and Meta Milobratovic, and younger brother to Slavko, he loved playing baseball and being the class clown. In high school, he played the only non-singing role in Brigadoon and this started his lifelong love of performing.
In community theater, he met Cheryl Stefanski, the woman he married in October of 1971, and in 1974, they gave birth to their only child, Wendi.
In 1977, he started his professional career at Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, where he later appeared in many productions including Polly, Nicholas Nickleby, and A Child's Christmas in Wales. He got his Equity card at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.
Touring with Don Brockett's Big Bad Burlesque across the United States was a memorable experience. One of the stops on that tour was the Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois, where he became a beloved and regular performer in their Summer Stock productions.
Over the years, he would return to portray such roles as Billis in South Pacific, the Devil in Damn Yankees, Oscar in The Odd Couple, and most notably Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.
It was here he premiered a labor of love, his popular one man show, "Now Cut That Out; Images of Jack Benny," which he wrote and starred in.
Jack's film work included roles in Atlas Shrugged Part I (2011), Sunflower (2004), and Conversations in Limbo (1998). His best known character was Villapiano, the enthusiastic pizzeria owner in That Thing You Do (1996).
In his private life, he was a devoted husband, father and friend to so many. In 1989, the Milo family moved to beautiful Downtown Burbank, California, where his daughter Wendi married Eric Harvel in 1999, and they had Jack's first grandchild Jack Dylan (JD) Harvel in 2003, followed by Samantha Jane Harvel in 2007.
He was an amazing grandfather, helping them with their homework, coming to their school performances, and cheering them on from the sidelines at their baseball and softball games.
He is survived by his wife Cheryl, his daughter Wendi (Eric) Harvel, his two grandchildren, JD and Sami, and his brother Slavko (Sylvia) Milobratovic.
For anyone who would like to donate, the family is requesting donations to be made in his name to the Actors Fund HERE.
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