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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 8, 1925
Died
June 27, 2001
Place of Birth
Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- John "Jack" Lemmon
- John Lemmon
- John Uhler Lemmon III
- جک لمون
Jack Lemmon
0.9 Popularity
Biography
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III 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
7.2
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sly
2023
7.5
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
6.8
Self (archive footage)
Always at The Carlyle
2018
6.8
Self (voice) (archive footage)
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
7.0
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
7.2
Self
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
2009
3.7
Self (archive footage)
Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
2008
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Inside 'The Apartment'
2008
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon
2007
8.5
Self (archive footage)
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006
Credits
Sly
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
7.2
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
7.5
Always at The Carlyle
as Self (archive footage)
2018
6.8
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2017
6.8
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2014
7.0
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
as Self
2009
7.2
Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
as Self (archive footage)
2008
3.7
Inside 'The Apartment'
as Self (archive footage)
2008
0.0
Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon
as Self (archive footage)
2007
0.0
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
as Self (archive footage)
2006
8.5
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
as Self (archive footage)
2006
7.0
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
2005
0.0
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
as Self (archive footage)
2004
6.0
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
as Self (archive footage)
2004
8.0
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
as Self
2004
0.0
Christmas in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2003
0.0
Un film et son époque
as Self (archive footage)
2003
10.0
Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon
as Self (archive footage)
2002
0.0
Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
as Self
2001
6.0
On Cukor
as Self
2000
0.0
The Legend of Bagger Vance
as Narrator
2000
6.6
🎬
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
0.0
Tuesdays with Morrie
as Morrie Schwartz
1999
7.3
Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
1999
6.3
Forever Hollywood
as Self
1999
8.0
🎬
Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
as Self
1998
0.0
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
as Self
1998
7.3
The Odd Couple II
as Felix Ungar
1998
6.3
🎬
Puppies for Sale
1998
0.0
The Long Way Home
as Tom Gerrin
1998
6.2
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
1998
6.0
12 Angry Men
as Juror 8
1997
7.7
Out to Sea
as Herb Sullivan
1997
5.7
Scene by Scene
as Self
1997
6.0
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
as Self
1997
6.5
Hamlet
as Marcellus
1996
7.3
My Fellow Americans
as President Russell P. Kramer
1996
6.0
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
as Self
1996
0.0
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
as Self
1996
7.5
The Grass Harp
as Dr. Morris Ritz
1996
5.8
A Weekend in the Country
as Bud Bailey
1996
3.5
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self
1996
6.4
Getting Away with Murder
as Mueller / Luger
1996
4.6
Grumpier Old Men
as John Gustafson
1995
6.5
Inside the Dream Factory
as Self
1995
6.0
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Grumpy Old Men
as John Gustafson
1993
6.6
A Life in the Theatre
as Robert
1993
6.2
Short Cuts
as Paul Finnigan
1993
7.2
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
as Self
1993
6.0
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self
1993
5.6
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
6.7
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Shelley Levene
1992
7.3
James Cagney: Top of the World
as Self
1992
10.0
The Player
as Jack Lemmon
1992
7.2
For Richer, for Poorer
as Aram Katourian
1992
5.5
JFK
as Jack Martin
1991
7.6
The One, the Only... Groucho
as Self
1991
0.0
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
as Self - Host
1990
0.0
The Earth Day Special
as Coach Stewart
1990
7.6
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
as Self
1990
6.5
The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
0.0
The Simpsons
as Frank Ormand (voice)
1989
8.0
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
as Self
1989
7.0
Dad
as Jake Tremont
1989
6.3
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
🎬
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
0.0
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
as Self
1988
6.7
The Murder of Mary Phagan
as Gov. John Slaton
1988
5.8
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as James Tyrone
1987
6.2
The Best of Max Headroom
as Self
1987
0.0
That's Life!
as Harvey Fairchild
1986
5.6
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from Some Like It Hot [1959]) (archive footage)
1986
7.5
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
as Self
1986
9.0
Debonair Dancers
as Narrator
1986
5.7
Macaroni
as Robert Traven
1985
6.2
Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
as Self
1985
0.0
The Max Headroom Show
as Self
1985
7.5
Mass Appeal
as Father Tim Farley
1984
6.2
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
as Self
1982
6.7
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter
as Self
1982
0.0
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Missing
as Ed Horman
1982
7.2
🎬
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
as Self
1981
6.0
Buddy Buddy
as Victor Clooney
1981
6.2
Musical Comedy Tonight II
as Self
1981
7.0
Tribute
as Scottie Templeton
1980
5.6
The China Syndrome
as Jack Godell
1979
7.2
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
The Hollywood Greats
as Self
1977
3.5
Airport '77
as Don Gallagher
1977
5.6
The Gentleman Tramp
as Narrator
1976
6.6
Alex & the Gypsy
as Alexander Main
1976
4.6
The Entertainer
as Archie Rice
1976
5.5
Killer Cop
as Narrator (voice)
1975
6.4
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Mel Edison
1975
6.7
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Front Page
as Hildebrand Johnson
1974
7.3
Flick Flack
1974
0.0
Wednesday
as Jerry Murphy
1974
5.5
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
Save the Tiger
as Harry Stoner
1973
6.6
Avanti!
as Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
1972
6.9
The War Between Men and Women
as Peter Wilson
1972
6.4
S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
as Self - Host
1972
5.0
Kotch
as Sleeping Bus Passenger (uncredited)
1971
6.5
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
6.0
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.3
The Out-of-Towners
as George Kellerman
1970
6.8
The April Fools
as Howard Brubaker
1969
6.0
🎬
Jack Benny's Bag
as Self
1968
0.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.7
The Odd Couple
as Felix Ungar
1968
7.5
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.5
Luv
as Harry Berlin
1967
4.1
The Fortune Cookie
as Harry Hinkle
1966
7.2
The Great Race
as Professor Fate
1965
7.1
How to Murder Your Wife
as Stanley Ford
1965
6.3
Good Neighbor Sam
as Sam Bissel
1964
6.5
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
as Hogan
1963
5.9
Irma la Douce
as Nestor Patou
1963
7.4
Days of Wine and Roses
as Joe Clay
1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
The Notorious Landlady
as Bill Gridley
1962
6.7
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
as Self
1962
7.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Rip Crandall
1960
5.9
Pepe
as Jack Lemmon
1960
6.2
The Apartment
as C.C. Baxter
1960
8.2
It Happened to Jane
as George Denham
1959
6.1
Some Like It Hot
as Jerry (Daphne)
1959
8.1
Bell, Book and Candle
as Nicky Holroyd
1958
6.4
Cowboy
as Frank Harris
1958
6.4
Alcoa Theatre
as Ashley
1957
6.5
Operation Mad Ball
as Pvt. Hogan
1957
6.5
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Fire Down Below
as Tony
1957
5.7
You Can't Run Away from It
as Peter Warne
1956
4.7
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Cass Kendall
1956
5.5
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Pianist
1956
5.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
5.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.1
My Sister Eileen
as Bob Baker
1955
6.5
Mister Roberts
as Ensign Frank Pulver
1955
7.0
Three for the Show
as Martin 'Marty' Stewart
1955
6.0
Phffft
as Robert Tracey
1954
6.2
It Should Happen to You
as Pete Sheppard
1954
6.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
Heaven for Betsy
as Peter Bell
1952
0.0
🎬
Once Too Often
as Mike (uncredited)
1950
5.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Alfred Fishkettle
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
The Lady Takes a Sailor
as Plasterer (uncredited)
1949
4.3
Suspense
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Fred Stevens
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Charlie Bemis
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8