Jack Lemmon

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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

The Simpsons

Frank Ormand (voice)

Some Like It Hot

Jerry (Daphne)

The Apartment

C.C. Baxter

JFK

Jack Martin

Glengarry Glen Ross

Shelley Levene

Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Narrator (voice)

The Player

Jack Lemmon

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2021	The Real Charlie Chaplin MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011	Hollywood Invasion MOVIE	Self
2009	Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me MOVIE	Self
2008	Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	Inside 'The Apartment' MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2006	The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot' MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2006	The Making of 'Some Like It Hot' MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	Nos Bastidores de Hollywood MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	Uta Hagen's Acting Class MOVIE	Self
2003	Christmas in Hollywood MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2003	Un film et son époque TV	Self (archive footage)
2002	Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2001	Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot MOVIE	Self
2000	On Cukor MOVIE	Self
2000	The Legend of Bagger Vance MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2000	Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2000	Altman on His Own Terms MOVIE	Self
1999	Tuesdays with Morrie MOVIE	Morrie Schwartz
1999	Inherit the Wind MOVIE	Henry Drummond
1999	Forever Hollywood MOVIE	Self
1998	Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau MOVIE	Self
1998	Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's MOVIE	Self
1998	The Odd Couple II MOVIE	Felix Ungar
1998	Puppies for Sale MOVIE	Self
1998	The Long Way Home MOVIE	Tom Gerrin
1998	Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy MOVIE	Self
1997	12 Angry Men MOVIE	Juror 8
1997	Out to Sea MOVIE	Herb Sullivan
1997	Scene by Scene TV	Self
1997	Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough MOVIE	Self
1996	Hamlet MOVIE	Marcellus
1996	My Fellow Americans MOVIE	President Russell P. Kramer
1996	Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door MOVIE	Self
1996	Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman MOVIE	Self
1996	The Grass Harp MOVIE	Dr. Morris Ritz
1996	A Weekend in the Country MOVIE	Bud Bailey
1996	Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels MOVIE	Self
1996	Getting Away with Murder MOVIE	Mueller / Luger
1995	Grumpier Old Men MOVIE	John Gustafson
1995	Inside the Dream Factory MOVIE	Self
1994	Inside the Actors Studio TV	Self
1993	Grumpy Old Men MOVIE	John Gustafson
1993	A Life in the Theatre MOVIE	Robert
1993	Short Cuts MOVIE	Paul Finnigan
1993	Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country MOVIE	Self
1993	Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy MOVIE	Self
1992	Chaplin MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1992	Earth and the American Dream MOVIE	Reader (voice)
1992	Glengarry Glen Ross MOVIE	Shelley Levene
1992	The Marilyn Files MOVIE	self
1992	James Cagney: Top of the World MOVIE	Self
1992	The Player MOVIE	Jack Lemmon
1992	For Richer, for Poorer MOVIE	Aram Katourian
1991	JFK MOVIE	Jack Martin
1991	The One, the Only... Groucho MOVIE	Self
1990	The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? MOVIE	Self - Host
1990	The Earth Day Special MOVIE	Coach Stewart
1990	The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
1990	Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream MOVIE	Self
1989	The Simpsons TV	Frank Ormand (voice)
1989	Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius MOVIE	Self
1989	Dad MOVIE	Jake Tremont
1988	Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1988	The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV	Self
1988	Gregory Peck: His Own Man MOVIE	Self
1988	The Murder of Mary Phagan TV	Gov. John Slaton
1987	Long Day's Journey Into Night MOVIE	James Tyrone
1987	The Best of Max Headroom MOVIE	Self
1986	That's Life! MOVIE	Harvey Fairchild
1986	Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special MOVIE	Self
1986	Debonair Dancers MOVIE	Narrator
1985	Macaroni MOVIE	Robert Traven
1985	Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years MOVIE	Self
1985	The Max Headroom Show TV	Self
1984	Mass Appeal MOVIE	Father Tim Farley
1982	Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder MOVIE	Self
1982	Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter MOVIE	Self
1982	Night of 100 Stars MOVIE	Self
1982	Missing MOVIE	Ed Horman
1981	All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds MOVIE	Self
1981	Buddy Buddy MOVIE	Victor Clooney
1981	Musical Comedy Tonight II MOVIE	Self
1980	Tribute MOVIE	Scottie Templeton
1979	The China Syndrome MOVIE	Jack Godell
1978	The Kennedy Center Honors TV	Self
1977	The Hollywood Greats TV	Self
1977	Airport '77 MOVIE	Don Gallagher
1976	The Gentleman Tramp MOVIE	Narrator
1976	Alex & the Gypsy MOVIE	Alexander Main
1976	The Entertainer MOVIE	Archie Rice
1975	Killer Cop MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1975	The Prisoner of Second Avenue MOVIE	Mel Edison
1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche TV	Self
1974	The Front Page MOVIE	Hildebrand Johnson
1974	Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist MOVIE	Self
1974	Flick Flack TV	Self
1974	Wednesday MOVIE	Jerry Murphy
1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ... TV	Self
1973	Save the Tiger MOVIE	Harry Stoner
1972	Avanti! MOVIE	Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
1972	The War Between Men and Women MOVIE	Peter Wilson
1972	S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin MOVIE	Self - Host
1971	Film '72 TV	Self
1971	Kotch MOVIE	Sleeping Bus Passenger (uncredited)
1971	V.I.P. Schaukel TV	Self
1971	Great Performances TV	Self
1970	The Out-of-Towners MOVIE	George Kellerman
1969	The April Fools MOVIE	Howard Brubaker
1968	Jack Benny's Bag MOVIE	Self
1968	The Dick Cavett Show TV	Self - Guest
1968	The Odd Couple MOVIE	Felix Ungar
1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV	Self (uncredited)
1967	Luv MOVIE	Harry Berlin
1966	The Fortune Cookie MOVIE	Harry Hinkle
1965	The Great Race MOVIE	Professor Fate
1965	How to Murder Your Wife MOVIE	Stanley Ford
1964	Good Neighbor Sam MOVIE	Sam Bissel
1963	Under the Yum-Yum Tree MOVIE	Hogan
1963	Irma la Douce MOVIE	Nestor Patou
1963	Days of Wine and Roses MOVIE	Joe Clay
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self
1962	The Notorious Landlady MOVIE	Bill Gridley
1962	The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers MOVIE	Self
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self
1960	The Wackiest Ship in the Army MOVIE	Rip Crandall
1960	Pepe MOVIE	Jack Lemmon
1960	The Apartment MOVIE	C.C. Baxter
1959	It Happened to Jane MOVIE	George Denham
1959	Some Like It Hot MOVIE	Jerry (Daphne)
1958	Bell, Book and Candle MOVIE	Nicky Holroyd
1958	Cowboy MOVIE	Frank Harris
1957	The Mystery of Thirteen MOVIE	Dr. Billy Palmer
1957	Alcoa Theatre TV	Ashley
1957	Operation Mad Ball MOVIE	Pvt. Hogan
1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar TV	Self
1957	Fire Down Below MOVIE	Tony
1956	You Can't Run Away from It MOVIE	Peter Warne
1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show TV	Self
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre TV	Cass Kendall
1956	The Steve Allen Show TV	Self - Pianist
1956	Tony Awards TV	Self - Host
1956	Tony Awards TV	Self - Presenter
1955	My Sister Eileen MOVIE	Bob Baker
1955	Mister Roberts MOVIE	Ensign Frank Pulver
1955	Three for the Show MOVIE	Martin 'Marty' Stewart
1954	Phffft MOVIE	Robert Tracey
1954	It Should Happen to You MOVIE	Pete Sheppard
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1952	Heaven for Betsy TV	Peter Bell
1951	The Red Skelton Show TV	Self - Most Promising Newcomer
1950	Once Too Often MOVIE	Mike (uncredited)
1950	The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland MOVIE	Tweedledum
1950	Lux Video Theatre TV	Alfred Fishkettle
1950	Armstrong Circle Theatre TV	Self
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self - Mystery Guest
1950	Robert Montgomery Presents TV	Self
1949	The Lady Takes a Sailor MOVIE	Plasterer (uncredited)
1949	Suspense TV	Self
1948	Studio One TV	Fred Stevens
1948	Studio One TV	Charlie Bemis
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse TV	Self
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show TV	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Winner
	Marilyn at the Movies MOVIE	Self

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