Date of birth: 1926-03-16
Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jerome Joseph Levitch, Joseph Levitch, The King of Comedy, Martin & Lewis, Τζέρι Λιούις, Τζερόμ Τζόζεφ Λέβιτς, Τζόζεφ Λέβιτς, Μάρτιν & Λιούις, Ο Βασιλιάς της Κωμωδίας, Τζερόμ Λέβιτς, 杰瑞·刘易斯, جری لوئیس

Jerry Lewis (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1982-12-18
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la

1993-01-06
An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film,

1963-11-07
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $

1956-08-01
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footste

1964-06-24
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased e

1950-12-31
Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his form

2002-12-17
Documentary about the making of Martin Scorsese's story of a man willing to go to any length for a s

1953-04-27
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who

2004-04-01
Old fashioned riddles and answers are flashed on the screen, together with non-stop film clips of vi

1979-03-23
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.

1959-12-11
A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch,
2004-01-01
Documentary about Hollywood.

1961-06-21
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a

1964-12-16
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice

1961-11-28
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. M

1962-11-20
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out

1995-09-20
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns t

1963-11-28
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend

2021-11-14
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to

1958-07-23
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart

1983-04-13
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end

1957-11-27
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training ha

1956-12-06
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Stev

1955-11-07
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic b

1952-06-11
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army.

1958-11-02
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During

1953-08-10
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is to

1954-12-22
Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment

1957-06-06
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth savi

1960-07-20
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly

1965-12-22
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air Fran

1966-03-01
An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a p

2012-09-30
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc

1952-02-08
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enl

1954-08-04
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he fi

2008-11-24
To impress a beautiful girl, Harold Kelp, the grandson of professor Julius Kelp, who created a potio

1963-06-04
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suav

1960-12-18
When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good

2004-07-28
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to

1965-07-01
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the gi

1955-08-25
When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity

1953-12-31
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that

1951-05-31
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his o

1982-12-09
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are

1968-07-12
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wif

1951-11-15
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act

2005-03-08
Classic Dean Martin performances, including "Send Me The Pillow You Dream On", "King of the Road", a

1989-08-02
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen

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

1949-10-14
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life o

1950-06-25
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a ser

1960-02-04
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien w
2022-02-23
Jerry Lewis’s patented form of slapstick made him a 20th-century comedic icon. But former co-stars d

1966-10-26
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
1969-02-17
A TV special aired on February 17, 1969 (the star’s birthday was February 14), featuring Benny’s lon

1967-07-12
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertentl

1970-09-03
Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his co

1969-06-06
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then lea

2011-12-17
It will surprise few to discover that star of stage and screen Jerry Lewis has sought to amuse other

1959-07-03
The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

1980-01-30
In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't se

1984-11-18
Clovis Blaireau is a private detective. It is charged by Nadège de Courtaboeuf wife knew wealthy ind

1995-08-24
After escaping Russia's communist revolution, Léon Theremin travels to New York, where he pioneers t

1982-01-01
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions sp

2016-09-02
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their li
2006-03-15

2016-04-18
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use hu

1988-11-05
TV movie starring Sammy Davis Jr and Jerry Lewis.
2006-03-15
A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.

1949-01-01
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border is a 1949 American short comedy film directed by Jerry Lew

1997-03-16
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev

1987-03-23
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to ge

1996-08-18
Jerry Lewis biography
2022-08-19
A look into the subconscious of the 20th century.

1984-10-31
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenan

2022-01-11
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran

1964-06-27
Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts televisio

2002-11-26
A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the f

1965-11-09
The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the profes

2019-03-22
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian

2011-10-25
Documentary about Laurel & Hardy

2016-04-29
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

2011-01-01
A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.
2014-05-14
Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'

1980-01-01
The short shows various clips from Hollywood feature films that, like the title of the film, are ful

1971-09-20
Documentary of a 154-person bus and truck tour that set out to spread the gospel of flower power to

2009-08-07
The film chronicles George's adventures as he befriends Kayla, a baby elephant, at a magic circus sh

2017-02-24
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.

2016-02-03
A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".

1970-05-01
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
1990-02-04
Celebrating Sammy Davis Jr 's 60th anniversary in show business, including musical,comic and dancing
2004-01-01
Documentary which aired on television in 2004, about the two daughters of Judy Garland and their rel

2013-12-27
After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitte

1952-12-05
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sig

2016-09-02
Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing

2016-01-04
Jewish comedian David Schneider presents a look at some exclusive behind the scenes material from th

1992-09-23
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing

2017-09-11
A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay

2013-08-23
Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the

1991-01-01
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

1992-01-01
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis were the hottest act in America in the 1950's & the highest paid comedy te

1952-01-01
A Jerry Lewis directed home movie remake of the Burt Lancaster drama Come Back Little Sheba. Dean Ma
1951-01-01
Janet Leigh commands her close-up as the faux Norma Desmond character in what an elaborate title seq

2011-12-28
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt

1986-08-23
Special featuring Don Rickles in his live comedy act at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, mixed with fo

1997-11-01
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift thos
1974-12-21
Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the mos

1981-01-01
The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jer

1972-03-26
Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles,

2020-04-07
A showcase of 3-D Kodachrome slides taken between the 40's and 70s.

2021-05-16
The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and

2025-04-20
Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance,

1954-04-18
Miss Glucksman, teacher of Englewood Liberty school, visits Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Jerry Lewi

2012-05-15
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywo

1986-01-01
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis

2004-01-01
He was a beloved American icon. Dean Martin, the coolest, the most debonair, the smoothest. This fil

2025-10-03
The film explores the personal and professional life of Stella Stevens, one of Hollywood's last star

1959-10-13
The conflict between the Rabbi father and the son who disappoints him by seeking a secular career in

1976-11-21
A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airw