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