
Jack Lemmon
Department: Acting
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

Some Like It Hot
1959

The Apartment
1960

Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988

The Front Page
1974

The China Syndrome
1979

Debonair Dancers
1986

Short Cuts
1993

Good Neighbor Sam
1964

JFK
1991

Hamlet
1996

The Fortune Cookie
1966

Bell, Book and Candle
1958

Inside 'The Apartment'
2008

Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon
2002

Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon
2007

Irma la Douce
1963

The Player
1992

The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004

The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004

It Should Happen to You
1954

The Out-of-Towners
1970

Dad
1989

The Odd Couple
1968

Grumpy Old Men
1993

The Great Race
1965

Airport '77
1977

12 Angry Men
1997

Days of Wine and Roses
1963

Getting Away with Murder
1996

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992

The Odd Couple II
1998

How to Murder Your Wife
1965

Tuesdays with Morrie
1999

It Happened to Jane
1959

Buddy Buddy
1981

Macaroni
1985

Operation Mad Ball
1957

My Sister Eileen
1955

Grumpier Old Men
1995

Missing
1982

Under the Yum-Yum Tree
1963

The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960

Mister Roberts
1955

Save the Tiger
1973

The Grass Harp
1996

Cowboy
1958

Out to Sea
1997

My Fellow Americans
1996

The Notorious Landlady
1962

Phffft
1954

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975

The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall
1990

That's Life!
1986

Pepe
1960

The April Fools
1969

Fire Down Below
1957

For Richer, for Poorer
1992

You Can't Run Away from It
1956

On Cukor
2000

Inherit the Wind
1999

Mass Appeal
1984

Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter
1982

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988

The Long Way Home
1998

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982

Tribute
1980

Alex & the Gypsy
1976

The Gentleman Tramp
1976

The War Between Men and Women
1972

Luv
1967

Long Day's Journey Into Night
1987

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006

The Entertainer
1976

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
1998

Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962

A Weekend in the Country
1996

Three for the Show
1955

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005

Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
2008

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
1996

Kotch
1971

A Life in the Theatre
1993

Christmas in Hollywood
2003

Puppies for Sale
1998

James Cagney: Top of the World
1992

Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
1986

The Lady Takes a Sailor
1949

The Earth Day Special
1990

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998

The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000

Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
1989

Killer Cop
1975

Forever Hollywood
1999

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996

Once Too Often
1950

The One, the Only... Groucho
1991

Earth and the American Dream
1992

Avanti!
1972

Wednesday
1974

Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
1997

All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
1981

Inside the Dream Factory
1995

Musical Comedy Tonight II
1981

S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
1972

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993

Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
2009

Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
1998

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
1985

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Jack Benny's Bag
1968

Altman on His Own Terms
2000

The Best of Max Headroom
1987

The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021

Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
1974

The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland
1950

Chaplin
1992

Hollywood Invasion
2011

The Mystery of Thirteen
1957

The Marilyn Files
1992

Marilyn at the Movies
1951

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

The Simpsons
1989

Un film et son époque
2003

Studio One
1948

Lux Video Theatre
1950

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

Suspense
1949

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Hollywood Greats
1977

The Oscars
1953

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978

Heaven for Betsy
1952

Alcoa Theatre
1957

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988

Flick Flack
1974

V.I.P. Schaukel
1971

Studio One
1948

Scene by Scene
1997

Great Performances
1971

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

What's My Line?
1950

What's My Line?
1950

The Max Headroom Show
1985

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988

Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950

Film '72
1971

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Red Skelton Show
1951

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956