
Jack Lemmon
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-02-08
- Died:
- 2001-06-27
- Place of birth:
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Known For
Filmography

The Real Charlie Chaplin

Marilyn at the Movies

Hollywood Invasion

Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

Inside 'The Apartment'

Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

Uta Hagen's Acting Class

Christmas from Hollywood

Un film et son époque

Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon

Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot

On Cukor

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

Altman on His Own Terms

Tuesdays with Morrie

Inherit the Wind

Forever Hollywood

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

The Odd Couple II
Puppies for Sale

The Long Way Home

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

12 Angry Men

Out to Sea

Scene by Scene

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

Hamlet

My Fellow Americans

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

The Grass Harp

A Weekend in the Country

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Getting Away with Murder

Grumpier Old Men

Inside the Dream Factory

Inside the Actors Studio

Grumpy Old Men

A Life in the Theatre

Short Cuts

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

Earth and the American Dream

Glengarry Glen Ross
The Marilyn Files

James Cagney: Top of the World

The Player

For Richer, for Poorer

JFK

The One, the Only... Groucho

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

The Earth Day Special

The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

The Simpsons

Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

Dad

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Long Day's Journey Into Night

The Best of Max Headroom

That's Life!

Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special

Debonair Dancers

Macaroni

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

The Max Headroom Show

Mass Appeal

Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter

Night of 100 Stars

Missing
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds

Buddy Buddy

Musical Comedy Tonight II

Tribute

The China Syndrome

The Kennedy Center Honors

The South Bank Show

Ciné regards

The Hollywood Greats

Airport '77

The Gentleman Tramp

Alex & the Gypsy

The Entertainer

Killer Cop

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

The Front Page
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist

Flick Flack

Wednesday

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Save the Tiger

Avanti!

The War Between Men and Women
S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
Film '72

Kotch
V.I.P. Schaukel

Great Performances

The Out-of-Towners

The April Fools

Jack Benny's Bag

The Dick Cavett Show

The Odd Couple

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Luv

The Fortune Cookie

The Great Race

How to Murder Your Wife

Good Neighbor Sam

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Days of Wine and Roses

Irma la Douce

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Notorious Landlady

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

The Mike Douglas Show

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Pepe

The Apartment

It Happened to Jane

Some Like It Hot

Bell, Book and Candle

Cowboy
The Mystery of Thirteen

Alcoa Theatre

Operation Mad Ball

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Fire Down Below

You Can't Run Away from It

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Steve Allen Show

Tony Awards

My Sister Eileen

Mister Roberts

Three for the Show

Phffft

It Should Happen to You

The Oscars
Heaven for Betsy

The Red Skelton Show
Once Too Often

The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland

Lux Video Theatre

Armstrong Circle Theatre

What's My Line?

Robert Montgomery Presents
That Wonderful Guy

The Lady Takes a Sailor

Suspense

Studio One

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Ed Sullivan Show

Golden Globe Awards