Jack Lemmon
Acting • Born 1925-02-08 – Died 2001-06-27
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.
Filmography
163 credits
Some Like It Hot
Movie • 1959
Jerry (Daphne)
The Apartment
Movie • 1960
C.C. Baxter
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Movie • 1988
Self
The China Syndrome
Movie • 1979
Jack Godell
The Front Page
Movie • 1974
Hildebrand Johnson
Debonair Dancers
Movie • 1986
Narrator
Short Cuts
Movie • 1993
Paul Finnigan
Good Neighbor Sam
Movie • 1964
Sam Bissel
JFK
Movie • 1991
Jack Martin
Hamlet
Movie • 1996
Marcellus
The Fortune Cookie
Movie • 1966
Harry Hinkle
Bell, Book and Candle
Movie • 1958
Nicky Holroyd
Inside 'The Apartment'
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Irma la Douce
Movie • 1963
Nestor Patou
The Player
Movie • 1992
Jack Lemmon
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
It Should Happen to You
Movie • 1954
Pete Sheppard
The Out-of-Towners
Movie • 1970
George Kellerman
Dad
Movie • 1989
Jake Tremont
The Odd Couple
Movie • 1968
Felix Ungar
Grumpy Old Men
Movie • 1993
John Gustafson
The Great Race
Movie • 1965
Professor Fate
Airport '77
Movie • 1977
Don Gallagher
12 Angry Men
Movie • 1997
Juror 8
Days of Wine and Roses
Movie • 1963
Joe Clay
Getting Away with Murder
Movie • 1996
Mueller / Luger
Glengarry Glen Ross
Movie • 1992
Shelley Levene
The Odd Couple II
Movie • 1998
Felix Ungar
How to Murder Your Wife
Movie • 1965
Stanley Ford
Tuesdays with Morrie
Movie • 1999
Morrie Schwartz
It Happened to Jane
Movie • 1959
George Denham
Buddy Buddy
Movie • 1981
Victor Clooney
Macaroni
Movie • 1985
Robert Traven
Operation Mad Ball
Movie • 1957
Pvt. Hogan
My Sister Eileen
Movie • 1955
Bob Baker
Grumpier Old Men
Movie • 1995
John Gustafson
Missing
Movie • 1982
Ed Horman
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Movie • 1963
Hogan
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Movie • 1960
Rip Crandall
Mister Roberts
Movie • 1955
Ensign Frank Pulver
Save the Tiger
Movie • 1973
Harry Stoner
The Grass Harp
Movie • 1996
Dr. Morris Ritz
Cowboy
Movie • 1958
Frank Harris
Out to Sea
Movie • 1997
Herb Sullivan
My Fellow Americans
Movie • 1996
President Russell P. Kramer
The Notorious Landlady
Movie • 1962
Bill Gridley
Phffft
Movie • 1954
Robert Tracey
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Movie • 1975
Mel Edison
The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall
Movie • 1990
Self - Narrator (voice)
That's Life!
Movie • 1986
Harvey Fairchild
Pepe
Movie • 1960
Jack Lemmon
The April Fools
Movie • 1969
Howard Brubaker
Fire Down Below
Movie • 1957
Tony
For Richer, for Poorer
Movie • 1992
Aram Katourian
You Can't Run Away from It
Movie • 1956
Peter Warne
On Cukor
Movie • 2000
Self
Inherit the Wind
Movie • 1999
Henry Drummond
Mass Appeal
Movie • 1984
Father Tim Farley
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter
Movie • 1982
Self
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
The Long Way Home
Movie • 1998
Tom Gerrin
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
Movie • 1982
Self
Tribute
Movie • 1980
Scottie Templeton
Alex & the Gypsy
Movie • 1976
Alexander Main
The Gentleman Tramp
Movie • 1976
Narrator
Luv
Movie • 1967
Harry Berlin
The War Between Men and Women
Movie • 1972
Peter Wilson
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Movie • 1987
James Tyrone
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Entertainer
Movie • 1976
Archie Rice
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
Movie • 1998
Self
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
Movie • 2004
Self
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Movie • 1962
Self
A Weekend in the Country
Movie • 1996
Bud Bailey
Three for the Show
Movie • 1955
Martin 'Marty' Stewart
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Movie • 1990
Self - Host
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
Movie • 1996
Self
Kotch
Movie • 1971
Sleeping Bus Passenger (uncredited)
A Life in the Theatre
Movie • 1993
Robert
Christmas in Hollywood
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Puppies for Sale
Movie • 1998
James Cagney: Top of the World
Movie • 1992
Self
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
Movie • 1986
Self
The Lady Takes a Sailor
Movie • 1949
Plasterer (uncredited)
The Earth Day Special
Movie • 1990
Coach Stewart
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Movie • 1990
Self
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Movie • 1998
Self
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Movie • 2000
Narrator (voice)
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
Movie • 1989
Self
Killer Cop
Movie • 1975
Narrator (voice)
Forever Hollywood
Movie • 1999
Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Movie • 1996
Self
Once Too Often
Movie • 1950
Mike (uncredited)
The One, the Only... Groucho
Movie • 1991
Self
Earth and the American Dream
Movie • 1992
Reader (voice)
Avanti!
Movie • 1972
Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
Wednesday
Movie • 1974
Jerry Murphy
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
Movie • 2001
Self
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Movie • 1993
Self
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Movie • 1996
Self
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Movie • 1997
Self
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
Movie • 1981
Self
Inside the Dream Factory
Movie • 1995
Self
Musical Comedy Tonight II
Movie • 1981
Self
S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
Movie • 1972
Self - Host
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Movie • 1993
Self
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
Movie • 2009
Self
Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
Movie • 1998
Self
Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
Movie • 1985
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
Jack Benny's Bag
Movie • 1968
Self
Altman on His Own Terms
Movie • 2000
Self
The Best of Max Headroom
Movie • 1987
Self
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
Movie • 1974
Self
The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1950
Tweedledum
Chaplin
Movie • 1992
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Invasion
Movie • 2011
The Mystery of Thirteen
Movie • 1957
Dr. Billy Palmer
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Frank Ormand (voice)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Un film et son époque
TV • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Studio One
TV • 1948
Fred Stevens
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Alfred Fishkettle
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
Suspense
TV • 1949
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Cass Kendall
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Pianist
The Hollywood Greats
TV • 1977
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
Heaven for Betsy
TV • 1952
Peter Bell
Alcoa Theatre
TV • 1957
Ashley
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Murder of Mary Phagan
TV • 1988
Gov. John Slaton
Flick Flack
TV • 1974
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Charlie Bemis
Scene by Scene
TV • 1997
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
The Max Headroom Show
TV • 1985
Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
TV • 1988
Armstrong Circle Theatre
TV • 1950
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)