Date of birth: 1925-02-08
Place of birth: Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John "Jack" Lemmon, John Lemmon, John Uhler Lemmon III

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.

1959-03-19
Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunit

1960-06-21
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to

1988-03-08
Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled

1974-11-01
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn

1979-03-16
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells

1986-01-01
Debonair Dancers is a 1986 short American documentary film produced and directed by Alison Nigh-Stre

1993-10-01
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver.

1964-07-22
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. Th

1991-12-20
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis

1996-12-25
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the

1966-10-19
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance

1958-12-25
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her inst

2008-01-06
A 2007 documentary on the making of "The Apartment."

2002-11-19
Documentary on Jack Lemmon featuring interviews with those who knew him and worked with him.

2007-01-01
A documentary about actor Jack Lemmon.

1963-06-05
When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and cre

1992-05-08
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but

2004-10-26
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."

2004-10-26
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."

1954-01-15
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a docum

1970-05-28
A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.

1989-10-27
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. H

1968-05-16
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic

1993-12-25
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wi

1965-07-01
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto m

1977-03-11
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passen

1997-08-17
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the gui

1963-02-04
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to

1996-04-12
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an

1992-09-10
Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran sales

1998-04-09
Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sun

1965-01-26
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Bra

1999-12-05
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him so

1959-05-24
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattenti

1981-04-02
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courth

1985-10-24
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to dis

1957-08-17
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as h

1955-09-22
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune

1995-12-22
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and

1982-02-12
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chil

1963-10-23
A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

1960-12-29
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a rea

1955-07-10
Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War

1973-02-14
A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of t

1996-10-11
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi

1958-01-23
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by

1997-07-02
Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search

1996-12-20
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents

1962-04-13
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected

1954-11-10
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into

1975-03-14
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middl

1990-01-01
Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studyin

1986-10-10
A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birth

1960-12-21
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director b

1969-05-28
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with t

1957-05-30
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Th

1992-01-01
Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a sel

1956-10-30
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

2000-11-22
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the

1999-05-29
Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching

1984-12-14
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

1982-05-16
A retrospective look at 60 years of great moments in film comedy, from the 1920s to 1982.

1988-05-16
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

1998-03-01
A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman,

1982-05-21
French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

1980-12-15
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit

1976-10-03
A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of atte

1976-10-10
A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

1972-06-01
A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the

1967-07-26
Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the

1987-04-13
Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on S

2006-06-25
A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's relea

2006-06-25
A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."

1976-03-10
A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom.

1998-06-19
In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting digni

2004-04-06
Uta Hagen comments on acting

1962-01-06
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.

1996-06-12
Six people. One weekend. The possibilities are endless when city meets country in this roundelay of

1955-02-24
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's
2000-05-21
Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines.

1990-08-31
Novice writers from a writers workshop wrote the show's sketches.

2005-03-01

2008-12-16
Why do movie audiences find men in skirts and women in pants anything but a drag? Discover the playf

1996-12-17
Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's

1971-09-17
When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with

1993-10-09
A veteran actor and a young up-and-comer join for a season of reparatory theatre.

2003-11-13
Dozens of stars--including Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Bob Hope, and more--demonstrate how the yuletide s
1998-04-05
A boy enters a pet shop intending to buy a dog with a hip problem. The shop owner tries to convince

1992-07-05
Michael J. Fox hosts this documentary featuring film clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage that t

1986-01-17
An all-star cast celebrates George Burn's 90th birthday and showcases highlights in Burns' career.

1949-12-16
Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greates

1990-04-22
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April

1990-01-01

1998-02-04
A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

2000-11-02
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h

1989-11-15
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

1975-03-27
In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator

1999-01-01
Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los

1996-11-25
Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominatio
1950-12-31
A soldier has a ten-day leave from his military duties. He’s an easygoing guy who rarely thinks abou

1991-05-28
The One, the Only... Groucho is a documentary that celebrates the life and legacy of Groucho Marx, t

1992-10-01
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From

1972-12-17
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to

1974-01-01
Jack Lemmon stars as a talk radio DJ who runs into some serious trouble live on the air.

2001-12-31
Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Come

1993-03-26
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

1996-05-19
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother,

1997-01-01
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
1981-12-13
Burt Reynolds is honored by more than 100 of his fellow celebrities and co-workers.

1995-11-01
Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine.

1981-02-11
A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Ch
1972-01-17
A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin

1993-01-20
This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the

2009-11-04
Commemorating the centennial of Mercer's birth, this documentary is part biography, part archive, an
1998-08-12
Robert Osborne hosts this TCM original featuring an exclusive interview with the original Odd Couple

1985-06-23
Documentary about the life of explorer Jacques Cousteau.

1982-03-08
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place
1968-11-16
Jack Benny's 1968 TV specials features topical references including a parody of The Graduate.

2000-01-01
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. T

1987-03-05
Some of the best bits from 'The Max Headroom Show'.

2021-11-19
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g
1974-04-01
An Oscars special featuring interviews with a few of the nominees and the writer and director the ye

1950-12-15
Thought to be the first full-hour television adaptation of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'T

1992-12-17
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt