Jack Lemmon

1925-2001

Biography: life and films

Jack Lemmon was an American actor whose birth name was John Uhler Lemmon III. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, USA on 8th February 1925 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 27th June 2001, aged 76.

His best films as an actor include Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Fortune Cookie (1966), Gene Saks's The Odd Couple (1968) and Costa-Gavras's thriller Missing (1982).

Jack Lemmon appeared in 60 films and directed 1 film.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Billy Wilder (7 films), Richard Quine (6), Blake Edwards (3), Howard Deutch (2) and David Swift (2).

His most frequent genres include: comedy (26 films), comedy-drama (16), comedy-romance (13), drama (11), romance (5), Thriller (4), Documentary (4), War (3), history (2) and Biography (2).

Our average rating for Jack Lemmon over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director

It Should Happen to You (1954) [a]

Phffft (1954) [a]

Mister Roberts (1955) [a]

My Sister Eileen (1955) [a]

Three for the Show (1955) [a]

You Can't Run Away from It (1956) [a]

Fire Down Below (1957) [a]

Operation Mad Ball (1957) [a]

Bell Book and Candle (1958) [a]

Cowboy (1958) [a]

It Happened to Jane (1959) [a]

Some Like It Hot (1959) [a]

Le Voyage en ballon (1960) [a]

Pepe (1960) [a]

The Apartment (1960) [a]

The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) [a]

Days of Wine and Roses (1962) [a]

The Notorious Landlady (1962) [a]

Irma la Douce (1963) [a]

Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) [a]

Good Neighbor Sam (1964) [a]

How to Murder Your Wife (1965) [a]

The Great Race (1965) [a]

The Fortune Cookie (1966) [a]

Luv (1967) [a]

The Odd Couple (1968) [a]

The April Fools (1969) [a]

The Out of Towners (1970) [a]

Kotch (1971) [a,d]

Avanti! (1972) [a]

The War Between Men and Women (1972) [a]

Save the Tiger (1973) [a]

The Front Page (1974) [a]

La Polizia ha le mani legate (1975) [a]

The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) [a]

Alex and the Gypsy (1976) [a]

The Gentleman Tramp (1976) [a]

Airport '77 (1977) [a]

Ken Murray Shooting Stars (1979) [a]

The China Syndrome (1979) [a]

Tribute (1980) [a]

Buddy Buddy (1981) [a]

Missing (1982) [a]

Mass Appeal (1984) [a]

Maccheroni (1985) [a]

That's Life! (1986) [a]

Dad (1989) [a]

JFK (1991) [a]

Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992) [a]

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) [a]

Grumpy Old Men (1993) [a]

Short Cuts (1993) [a]

Grumpier Old Men (1995) [a]

The Grass Harp (1995) [a]

Getting Away with Murder (1996) [a]

My Fellow Americans (1996) [a]

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) [a]

Out to Sea (1997) [a]

The Odd Couple II (1998) [a]



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