Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon

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.

On screen

  • The Real Charlie Chaplin
  • Hollywood Invasion
  • Marilyn at the Movies
  • Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
  • Inside 'The Apartment'
  • Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
  • 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 in Hollywood
  • Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon
  • Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
  • On Cukor
  • The Legend of Bagger Vance
  • Altman on His Own Terms
  • Tuesdays with Morrie
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Forever Hollywood
  • 12 Angry Men
  • The Odd Couple II
  • The Long Way Home
  • Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
  • Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
  • Out to Sea
  • Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
  • Hamlet
  • Getting Away with Murder
  • The Grass Harp
  • My Fellow Americans
  • A Weekend in the Country
  • Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
  • Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
  • Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
  • Grumpier Old Men
  • Inside the Dream Factory
  • Short Cuts
  • Grumpy Old Men
  • A Life in the Theatre
  • Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
  • Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
  • The Player
  • Glengarry Glen Ross
  • For Richer, for Poorer
  • James Cagney: Top of the World
  • Earth and the American Dream
  • JFK
  • The One, the Only... Groucho
  • The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall
  • The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
  • The Earth Day Special
  • Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
  • Dad
  • Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
  • Gregory Peck: His Own Man
  • Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • The Best of Max Headroom
  • Debonair Dancers
  • That's Life!
  • Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
  • Macaroni
  • Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
  • Mass Appeal
  • Missing
  • Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter
  • Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
  • Night of 100 Stars
  • Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius
  • Buddy Buddy
  • Musical Comedy Tonight II
  • Tribute
  • The China Syndrome
  • Airport '77
  • Alex & the Gypsy
  • The Gentleman Tramp
  • The Entertainer
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  • Killer Cop
  • The Front Page
  • Wednesday
  • Save the Tiger
  • The War Between Men and Women
  • Avanti!
  • Kotch
  • The Out-of-Towners
  • The April Fools
  • The Odd Couple
  • Luv
  • The Fortune Cookie
  • The Great Race
  • How to Murder Your Wife
  • Good Neighbor Sam
  • Irma la Douce
  • Days of Wine and Roses
  • Under the Yum Yum Tree
  • The Notorious Landlady
  • The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
  • The Apartment
  • The Wackiest Ship in the Army
  • Pepe
  • Some Like It Hot
  • It Happened to Jane
  • Bell, Book and Candle
  • Cowboy
  • Operation Mad Ball
  • Fire Down Below
  • You Can't Run Away from It
  • My Sister Eileen
  • Mister Roberts
  • Three for the Show
  • It Should Happen to You
  • Phffft
  • The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland
  • The Lady Takes a Sailor

Behind the camera

  • Kotch

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