Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/8/1925
Place of Birth
Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
John "Jack" LemmonJohn LemmonJohn Uhler Lemmon III
Jack Lemmon
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
Airport '77
as Don Gallagher
Buddy Buddy
as Victor Clooney
Phffft
as Robert Tracey
JFK
as Jack Martin
Some Like It Hot
as Jerry (Daphne)
12 Angry Men
as Juror 8
Mister Roberts
as Ensign Frank Pulver
You Can't Run Away from It
as Peter Warne
The Great Race
as Professor Fate
Good Neighbor Sam
as Sam Bissel
Hamlet
as Marcellus
The War Between Men and Women
as Peter Wilson
Missing
as Ed Horman
Short Cuts
as Paul Finnigan
Macaroni
as Robert Traven
Grumpy Old Men
as John Gustafson
Kotch
as Sleeping Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Avanti!
as Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self
Cowboy
as Frank Harris
Career Timeline
2008
2006
2004
2003
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
Hamlet
as Marcellus
My Fellow Americans
as President Russell P. Kramer
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
as Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
as Self
The Grass Harp
as Dr. Morris Ritz
A Weekend in the Country
as Bud Bailey
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self
Getting Away with Murder
as Mueller / Luger