Jerry Lewis

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Biography

Jerry Lewis (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Known For

The Simpsons

Professor John Frink, Sr. (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Andrew Munch

The King of Comedy

Jerry Langford

Arizona Dream

Leo Sweetie

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Driver Who Runs Over Hat (uncredited)

The Trust

Jim's Father

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

The Nutty Professor

Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	From Darkness to Light MOVIE	Self
2024	Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze MOVIE	Self (Archival Footage)
2024	Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy TV	Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2022	Marilyn Monroe, La Célébrité à tout prix TV	Jerry Lewis
2022	Mystery Reel MOVIE	Self
2022	The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	Rat Pack MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	Dean Martin: King of Cool MOVIE	Self
2021	Kreka: Dreamcatcher MOVIE	Self
2020	Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome Stereo MOVIE	Self
2020	TV Story Superstar TV	Self (archive footage)
2019	What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael MOVIE	Self
2017	Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me MOVIE	Self
2017	Dying Laughing MOVIE	Self
2016	Max Rose MOVIE	Max Rose
2016	Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2016	The Trust MOVIE	Jim's Father
2016	The Last Laugh MOVIE	Self
2016	The Clown MOVIE	Self
2016	The Story of... The Day the Clown Cried MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2014	Inside Rupert Pupkin MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon TV	Self
2013	Till Luck Do Us Part 2 MOVIE	Bellboy
2013	The Trials of Muhammad Ali MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Close Up MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee TV	Self
2012	Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2011	Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2011	Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis MOVIE	Self
2011	A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy MOVIE	Self
2011	Pierre Étaix, un destin animé MOVIE	Self
2009	Joy Behar: Say Anything! TV	Self
2009	Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! MOVIE	Stationmaster (voice)
2008	The Nutty Professor MOVIE	Professor Julius Kelp / Buddy Love
2006	Happy Birthday, Jerry Lewis MOVIE	Self
2006	Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime MOVIE	Self
2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself MOVIE	Jerome Littlefield in The Disorderly Orderly (archive footage)
2004	I Know A Riddle MOVIE	(archive footage)
2004	Hollywood Legenden MOVIE	Self
2004	A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	Dean Martin: The One and Only MOVIE	Self
2002	A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2002	Edith Head: The Paramount Years MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV	Andrew Munch
1997	The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1997	The View TV	Self
1997	Sports on the Silver Screen MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1996	E! True Hollywood Story TV	Self
1996	Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown MOVIE	Self
1996	Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1995	Funny Bones MOVIE	George Fawkes
1995	Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey MOVIE	Sidney L. Pythias (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994	Inside the Actors Studio TV	Self
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Guest
1993	Raw TV	Jerry Lewis (archive footage)
1993	Arizona Dream MOVIE	Leo Sweetie
1992	Mr. Saturday Night MOVIE	Jerry Lewis
1992	Mad About You TV	Freddy Statler
1992	The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team MOVIE	Self
1992	Martin & Lewis: Their Golden Age of Comedy TV	Self
1991	Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' MOVIE	Self
1990	Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration MOVIE	Self
1989	The Simpsons TV	Professor John Frink, Sr. (voice)
1989	Cookie MOVIE	Arnold Ross
1988	An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis MOVIE	Self
1987	Téléthon TV	Self
1987	Wiseguy TV	Eli Sternberg
1987	Sacrée Soirée TV	Self
1987	Sacrée Soirée TV	Self (archive footage)
1987	Fight for Life MOVIE	Dr. Bernard Abrams
1986	Rickles... On the Loose MOVIE	Self
1986	Classic Comedy Teams MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1984	How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave MOVIE	Clovis Blaireau
1984	Goldene Kamera TV	Self
1984	The Defective Detective MOVIE	Jerry Logan
1983	Bonjour Mr Lewis TV	Self (archive footage)
1983	Smorgasbord MOVIE	Warren Nefron / Dr. Perks / Gangster / Speed Armeter
1982	The King of Comedy MOVIE	Jerry Langford
1982	Slapstick of Another Kind MOVIE	Wilbur Swain / Caleb Swain
1982	Late Night with David Letterman TV	Self - Guest
1982	Champs-Elysées TV	Self
1982	Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1981	Rascal Dazzle MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
1980	Pink Lady TV	Jerry Lewis
1980	Hardly Working MOVIE	Bo Hooper
1980	Gay, Gay Hollywood MOVIE	Self
1979	The Hollywood Clowns MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1978	Rire et sourire : Le Splendid TV	Le Zinzin d'Hollywood, Jerry chez les cinoques
1977	Please Turn the Page TV	Self
1977	Auf los geht's los TV	Self
1976	NBC: The First Fifty Years MOVIE	Self
1976	Donny & Marie TV	Self
1975	Saturday Night Live TV	Self - Host
1975	Cher TV	Self - Guest
1975	Cher TV	Self
1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche TV	Self
1974	Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy MOVIE	Self
1974	Tony Orlando and Dawn TV	Self
1974	Spécial cinéma TV	Self (archive footage)
1974	Der große Preis TV	Self
1973	Klimbim TV	Self / Bobby Zischer
1973	Klimbim TV	Self
1972	Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! MOVIE	Self
1971	Medicine Ball Caravan MOVIE	Self
1971	The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour TV	Self
1971	V.I.P. Schaukel TV	Self
1970	Which Way to the Front? MOVIE	Brendan Byers III
1970	One More Time MOVIE	Bandleader (voice)
1969	Hook, Line and Sinker MOVIE	Peter J. Ingersoll / Fred Dobbs
1969	The Jack Benny Birthday Special MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1968	Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River MOVIE	George Lester
1968	The Dick Cavett Show TV	Self - Guest
1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV	Self (uncredited)
1967	The Jerry Lewis Show TV	Self - Host
1967	The Carol Burnett Show TV	Self
1967	The Big Mouth MOVIE	Gerald Clamson
1966	Way... Way Out MOVIE	Pete Mattemore
1966	Three on a Couch MOVIE	Christopher Pride / Warren / Ringo / Rutherford / Heather
1965	Boeing, Boeing MOVIE	Robert Reed
1965	Red Line 7000 MOVIE	Driver (uncredited)
1965	The Family Jewels MOVIE	Willard Woodward / James Peyton / Everett Peyton / Julius Peyton / Eddie Peyton / Skylock Peyton / Bugs Peyton
1964	The Disorderly Orderly MOVIE	Jerome Littlefield
1964	Soap Opera MOVIE	Self in Commercial (archive footage)
1964	The Patsy MOVIE	Stanley Belt
1963	Who's Minding the Store? MOVIE	Norman Phiffer
1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World MOVIE	Driver Who Runs Over Hat (uncredited)
1963	The Jerry Lewis Show TV	Self - Host
1963	The Nutty Professor MOVIE	Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp
1962	It's Only Money MOVIE	Lester March
1962	The Merv Griffin Show TV	Self
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self - Guest Host
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self - Co-Host
1961	The Errand Boy MOVIE	Morty S. Tashman
1961	Ben Casey TV	Dr. Dennis Green
1961	The Joey Bishop Show TV	Self (uncredited)
1961	The Ladies Man MOVIE	Herbert H. Heebert / Mama Heebert
1960	Cinderfella MOVIE	Cinderfella
1960	The Bellboy MOVIE	Stanley / Jerry Lewis
1960	Visit to a Small Planet MOVIE	Kreton
1959	Li'l Abner MOVIE	Cameo / Itchy McGrathy
1959	The Jazz Singer MOVIE	Joey Robin / Joey Rabinowitz
1959	Don't Give Up the Ship MOVIE	John Paul Steckler I / John Paul Steckler IV / John Paul Steckler VII
1959	The David Susskind Show TV	Self
1959	The Music Shop TV	Self
1958	The Geisha Boy MOVIE	Gilbert Wooley
1958	Kraft Music Hall TV	Self
1958	Rock-a-Bye Baby MOVIE	Clayton Poole
1957	The Sad Sack MOVIE	Private Meredith C. Bixby
1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar TV	Self
1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar TV	Self - Guest Host
1957	The Delicate Delinquent MOVIE	Sidney L. Pythias
1956	Hollywood or Bust MOVIE	Malcolm Smith
1956	Pardners MOVIE	Wade Kingsley Jr. / Wade Kingsley Sr.
1956	The Steve Allen Show TV	Self - Guest
1956	The Steve Allen Show TV	Self - Cameo
1956	The Steve Allen Show TV	Self
1955	Artists and Models MOVIE	Eugene Fullstack
1955	You're Never Too Young MOVIE	Wilbur Hoolick
1954	3 Ring Circus MOVIE	Jerry Hotchkiss
1954	Living It Up MOVIE	Homer Flagg
1954	Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood MOVIE	Self
1953	Money from Home MOVIE	Virgil Yokum
1953	The Caddy MOVIE	Harvey Miller
1953	Scared Stiff MOVIE	Myron Mertz
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1952	Road to Bali MOVIE	Woman in Lala's Dream (uncredited)
1952	Jumping Jacks MOVIE	Hap Smith
1952	Sailor Beware MOVIE	Melvin Jones
1952	Come Back Little Shiksa MOVIE	Self
1951	The Stooge MOVIE	Ted Rogers
1951	That's My Boy MOVIE	'Junior' Jackson
1951	Fairfax Avenue MOVIE	Self
1950	At War with the Army MOVIE	Alvin Korwin
1950	The Jack Benny Program TV	Self
1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour TV	Self
1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour TV	Self - Host
1950	My Friend Irma Goes West MOVIE	Seymour
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self - Panelist
1949	My Friend Irma MOVIE	Seymour
1949	How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border MOVIE	Self
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show TV	Self

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