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Jack Lemmon

John Uhler 'Jack' Lemmon III was a distinguished stage, television and film actor who appeared in legendary comedies and dramas such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment and Missing. He is also noted for his partnership with Walter Matthau in such films as The Fortune Cookie, The Odd Couple and Grumpy Old Men.

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Filmography

The Apartment

1960
as C.C. Baxter

12 Angry Men

1997
as Juror 8

Some Like It Hot

1959
as Jerry (Daphne)

JFK

1991
as Jack Martin

Dad

1989
as Jake Tremont

A Weekend in the Country

1996
as Bud Bailey

The April Fools

1969
as Howard Brubaker

Once Too Often

1950
as Mike

It Should Happen to You

1954
as Pete Sheppard

The Legend of Bagger Vance

2000
as Narrator

My Sister Eileen

1955
as Robert 'Bob' Baker

Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana

2015
as (archive footage)

Hollywood My Home Town

1965

Tuesdays with Morrie

1999
as Morrie Schwartz

Avanti!

1972
as Wendell Armbruster, Jr.

The Odd Couple

1968
as Felix Ungar

Luv

1967
as Harry Berlin

The One, the Only... Groucho

1991
as Jack Lemmon

The China Syndrome

1979
as Jack Godell

Three for the Show

1955
as Martin 'Marty' Stewart

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

2000
as Jack Lemmon

The Player

1992
as Himself

Glengarry Glen Ross

1992
as Shelley Levene

A Life in the Theatre

1993
as Robert

James Cagney: Top of the World

1992
as Self - Actor

My Fellow Americans

1996
as President Russell P. Kramer

Mass Appeal

1984
as Father Tim Farley

The Notorious Landlady

1962
as William 'Bill' Gridley

Forever Hollywood

1999
as Jack Lemmon

Inherit the Wind

1999
as Henry Drummond

Phffft!

1954
as Robert Tracey

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

1982
as Himself

Du sollst nicht langweilen: Billy Wilder

2017
as Self (archive footage)

It Happened to Jane

1959
as George Denham

Irma la Douce

1963
as Nestor Patou

You Can't Run Away from It

1956
as Peter Warne

The Gentleman Tramp

1976
as Narrator

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960
as Lt. Rip Crandall

Mister Roberts

1955
as Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver

Tribute

1980
as Scottie Templeton

The War Between Men and Women

1972
as Peter Edward Wilson

The Grass Harp

1995
as Dr. Morris Ritz

Missing

1982
as Ed Horman

Buddy Buddy

1981
as Victor Clooney

Bell, Book and Candle

1958
as Nicky Holroyd

The Great Race

1965
as Prof. Fate

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

1975
as Mel Edison

Grumpier Old Men

1995
as John Gustafson

Alcoa Theatre

1957

Macaroni

1985
as Robert Traven

Save the Tiger

1973
as Harry Stoner

Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

2008
as Self (archive footage)

Out to Sea

1997
as Herb Sullivan

All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds

1984
as Jack Lemmon

Le voyage en ballon

1960
as Narrator (English version)

Fire Down Below

1957
as Tony

Getting Away with Murder

1996

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

1988
as Jack Lemmon

Wednesday

1974
as Jerry Murphy

Good Neighbor Sam

1964
as Sam Bissel

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

2006
as Himself [archival footage]

Christmas from Hollywood

2003

The Fortune Cookie

1966
as Harry Hinkle

The Odd Couple II

1998
as Felix Ungar

Grumpy Old Men

1993
as John Gustafson

Under the Yum-Yum Tree

1963
as Hogan

Alex And The Gypsy

1976
as Alexander Main

Uta Hagen's Acting Class

2004
as Jack Lemmon

Days of Wine and Roses

1962
as Joe Clay

Short Cuts

1993
as Paul Finnigan

Cowboy

1958
as Frank Harris

Hamlet

1996
as Marcellus

Airport '77

1977
as Capt. Don Gallagher

Memories from the Sweet Sue's

2001
as Daphne

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1987
as James Tyrone

Operation Mad Ball

1957
as Private Hogan

The Out of Towners

1970
as George Kellerman

Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963

How to Murder Your Wife

1965
as Stanley Ford

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

1996
as Himself

The Earth Day Special

1990

Shirley MacLaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

1996
as Jack Lemmon

For Richer, for Poorer

1992
as Aram Katourian

Pepe

1960
as Himself

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

2006
as Himself [archival footage]

That's Life!

1986
as Harvey Fairchild

The Front Page

1974
as Hildebrand Johnson

Hollywood Invasion

2011
as Jack Lemmon

Director

Movie Kotch 1971

Producer

Movie Avanti! 1972
Movie The War Between Men and Women 1972

Guest Star

Episode The Simpsons
The Twisted World of Marge Simpson 		1997
Episode The Academy Awards
The 36th Academy Awards 1964 		1964
Episode The Academy Awards
The 44th Academy Awards 1972 		1972
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jack Lemmon, Chris Lemmon 		1985
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jack Lemmon 		1992
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jack Lemmon, K.T. Oslin 		1988
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Orson Welles, Jack Lemmon 		1970
Episode I've Got a Secret
Jack Lemmon 		1959
Episode What's My Line?
Jack Lemmon 		1964
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Jack Lemmon, Ted Wass, Bob Costas, Hall & Oates 		1991
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jack Lemmon, Maureen Murphy 		1982
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau 		1981
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jack Lemmon, Steven Wright 		1989
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jack Lemmon 		1992
Episode I've Got a Secret
Jack Lemmon 		1955
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jack Lemmon 		1971
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Mel Brooks, Tony Bennett, Jack Lemmon 		1992
Episode Tony Awards
The 32nd Annual Tony Awards 		1978
Episode The Max Headroom Show
Jack Lemmon 		1986
Episode What's My Line?
Jack Lemmon 		1965
Episode Playhouse 90
The Mystery of Thirteen 		1957
Episode Zane Grey Theater
Three Graves 		1957
Episode Oscar
Zweite Sendung 		1970
Episode Tony Awards
The 37th Annual Tony Awards 		1983
Episode Suspense
The Gray Helmet 		1949
Episode The Academy Awards
The 57th Academy Awards 1985 		1985
Episode Scene by Scene
Jack Lemmon 		1998
Episode The Academy Awards
The 30th Academy Awards 1958 		1958