Jack Lemmon

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-02-08 (76 years old)

Deathday

2001-06-27

Place of Birth

Newton, Massachusetts, USA

Jack Lemmon

Biography

John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III 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.

Acting

1959

Some Like It Hot

as Jerry (Daphne)

1960

The Apartment

as C.C. Baxter

1974

The Front Page

as Hildebrand Johnson

1979

The China Syndrome

as Jack Godell

1986

Debonair Dancers

as Narrator

1993

Short Cuts

as Paul Finnigan

1964

Good Neighbor Sam

as Sam Bissel

1991

JFK

as Jack Martin

1996

Hamlet

as Marcellus

1966

The Fortune Cookie

as Harry Hinkle

1958

Bell, Book and Candle

as Nicky Holroyd

2008

Inside 'The Apartment'

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon

as Self (archive footage)

2007

Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon

as Self (archive footage)

1963

Irma la Douce

as Nestor Patou

1992

The Player

as Jack Lemmon

2004

2004

1954

It Should Happen to You

as Pete Sheppard

1970

The Out-of-Towners

as George Kellerman

1989

Dad

as Jake Tremont

1968

The Odd Couple

as Felix Ungar

1993

Grumpy Old Men

as John Gustafson

1965

The Great Race

as Professor Fate

1977

Airport '77

as Don Gallagher

1997

12 Angry Men

as Juror 8

1963

1996

Getting Away with Murder

as Mueller / Luger

1992

Glengarry Glen Ross

as Shelley Levene

1998

The Odd Couple II

as Felix Ungar

1965

1999

Tuesdays with Morrie

as Morrie Schwartz

1959

It Happened to Jane

as George Denham

1981

Buddy Buddy

as Victor Clooney

1985

Macaroni

as Robert Traven

1957

Operation Mad Ball

as Pvt. Hogan

1955

My Sister Eileen

as Bob Baker

1995

Grumpier Old Men

as John Gustafson

1982

Missing

as Ed Horman

1955

Mister Roberts

as Ensign Frank Pulver

1973

Save the Tiger

as Harry Stoner

1996

The Grass Harp

as Dr. Morris Ritz

1958

Cowboy

as Frank Harris

1997

Out to Sea

as Herb Sullivan

1996

My Fellow Americans

as President Russell P. Kramer

1962

The Notorious Landlady

as Bill Gridley

1954

Phffft

as Robert Tracey

1990

The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1986

That's Life!

as Harvey Fairchild

1960

Pepe

as Jack Lemmon

1969

The April Fools

as Howard Brubaker

1957

1992

For Richer, for Poorer

as Aram Katourian

1956

2000

On Cukor

as Self

1999

Inherit the Wind

as Henry Drummond

1984

Mass Appeal

as Father Tim Farley

1998

The Long Way Home

as Tom Gerrin

1980

Tribute

as Scottie Templeton

1976

Alex & the Gypsy

as Alexander Main

1976

1967

Luv

as Harry Berlin

1986

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from Some Like It Hot [1959]) (archive footage)

2006

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

as Self (archive footage)

2006

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

as Self (archive footage)

1976

The Entertainer

as Archie Rice

1996

1955

Three for the Show

as Martin 'Marty' Stewart

2000

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

as Self (archive footage)

2023

Sly

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2018

Always at The Carlyle

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

as Self (archive footage)

1971

Kotch

as Sleeping Bus Passenger (uncredited)

2003

Christmas in Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

1949

The Lady Takes a Sailor

as Plasterer (uncredited)

1990

The Earth Day Special

as Coach Stewart

1975

Killer Cop

as Narrator (voice)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1950

Once Too Often

as Mike (uncredited)

1992

1972

Avanti!

as Wendell Armbruster, Jr.

1974

Wednesday

as Jerry Murphy

1968

2017

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Production

1971

Kotch

as Director

1972

Avanti!

as Executive Producer

1996

A Weekend in the Country

as Executive Producer

1972

The War Between Men and Women

as Executive Producer

1973

Save the Tiger

as Executive Producer

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