Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Considered equally proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, Lemmon was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in dramedy pictures, leading The Guardian to coin him "the most successful tragi-comedian of his age." He starred in over sixty films and was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, winning twice, and received many other accolades, including six Golden Globe Awards (counting the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award), two Cannes Film Festival Awards, two Volpi Cups, one Silver Bear, three BAFTA Awards, and two Emmy Awards. In 1988, he was awarded the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the American cinema. His best known films include Mister Roberts (1955, for which he won the year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), Some Like It Hot (19...
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Marilyn at the Movies
Hollywood Invasion
Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
On Cukor
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Tuesdays with Morrie
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
The Odd Couple II
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
12 Angry Men
Out to Sea
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
My Fellow Americans
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Getting Away with Murder
Grumpier Old Men
Inside the Dream Factory
The Grass Harp
Grumpy Old Men
A Life in the Theatre
Short Cuts
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Glengarry Glen Ross
James Cagney: Top of the World
For Richer, for Poorer
JFK
The One, the Only... Groucho
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Dad
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
The Best of Max Headroom
Debonair Dancers
That's Life!
Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
Macaroni
Mass Appeal
Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter
Missing- ALAll-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
Buddy Buddy
Musical Comedy Tonight II
Tribute
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
The China Syndrome
Airport '77
Alex & the Gypsy
The Entertainer
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Gentleman Tramp
The Front Page
Save the Tiger
Avanti!
The War Between Men and Women- S S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
The Out-of-Towners
The April Fools
Jack Benny's Bag
The Odd Couple
Luv
The Fortune Cookie
The Great Race
How to Murder Your Wife
Good Neighbor Sam
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Irma la Douce
Days of Wine and Roses
The Notorious Landlady
The Apartment
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Stowaway in the Sky
It Happened to Jane
Some Like It Hot
Bell, Book and Candle
Cowboy
Operation Mad Ball
Fire Down Below
You Can't Run Away from It
My Sister Eileen
Mister Roberts
Three for the Show
Phffft
It Should Happen to You
The Lady Takes a Sailor