Born 1925 (age 76) · Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Appears in 167 titles

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.

Filmography

Some Like It Hot
8.1
Some Like It Hot
1959
as Jerry (Daphne)
The Apartment
8.2
The Apartment
1960
as C.C. Baxter
JFK
7.6
JFK
1991
as Jack Martin
Glengarry Glen Ross
7.3
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
as Shelley Levene
Chaplin
7.4
Chaplin
1992
as Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
6.6
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000
as Narrator (voice)
The Player
7.2
The Player
1992
as Jack Lemmon
Grumpy Old Men
6.7
Grumpy Old Men
1993
as John Gustafson
Short Cuts
7.2
Short Cuts
1993
as Paul Finnigan
The Odd Couple
7.4
The Odd Couple
1968
as Felix Ungar
The China Syndrome
7.1
The China Syndrome
1979
as Jack Godell
Hamlet
7.3
Hamlet
1996
as Marcellus
Irma la Douce
7.4
Irma la Douce
1963
as Nestor Patou
12 Angry Men
7.7
12 Angry Men
1997
as Juror 8
Missing
7.2
Missing
1982
as Ed Horman
Grumpier Old Men
6.5
Grumpier Old Men
1995
as John Gustafson
The Front Page
7.3
The Front Page
1974
as Hildebrand Johnson
The Great Race
7.1
The Great Race
1965
as Professor Fate
The Fortune Cookie
7.2
The Fortune Cookie
1966
as Harry Hinkle
Airport '77
5.6
Airport '77
1977
as Don Gallagher