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]
Operation Mad Ball (1957) [a]
Bell Book and Candle (1958) [a]
Cowboy (1958) [a]
It Happened to Jane (1959) [a]
Le Voyage en ballon (1960) [a]
Pepe (1960) [a]
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) [a]
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) [a]
The Notorious Landlady (1962) [a]
Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) [a]
Good Neighbor Sam (1964) [a]
How to Murder Your Wife (1965) [a]
Luv (1967) [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]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The best French Films of the 1910s
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
