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John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Considered proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, Lemmon was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in dramedy pictures. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards.He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1988, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1991, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996. The Guardian labeled him ...
Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers Country Day School, then located in nearby Brookline. After RCDS, he went to high school at Phillips Andover Academy.
Jack Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925 in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He initially acted on TV before moving to Hollywood for the big screen, cultivating a career that would span decades. An eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins, Lemmon starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Save the Tiger (1973) and Grumpy Old Men (1993).Some of his most beloved performances stemmed from his ...
Jun 23, 2024 · Jack Lemmon (born February 8, 1925, Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 27, 2001, Los Angeles, California) was an American screen and stage actor who was adept at both comedy and drama and was noted for his portrayals of high-strung or neurotic characters in American films from the 1950s onward.
Jack Lemmon was an American actor. He collaborated with Billy Wilder and Walter Matthau on many films. Film. Year Title Role Director Notes 1949 The Lady Takes a Sailor: Plasterer Michael Curtiz: Uncredited 1950 Once Too Often: Mike U.S Army training film, Short; Uncredited 1954 It Should Happen to You: Pete Sheppard George Cukor: 1954 Phffft: Robert Tracey Mark Robson: 1955 Three for the Show: Martin "Marty" Stewart H. C. Potter: 1955 Mister Roberts:
Jun 29, 2001 · Lemmon was a child of privilege who was destined for Harvard. Jack Lemmon, Mr. Matthau once said, ''is a clean-cut, well-scrubbed Boston choirboy with quiet hysteria seeping out of every pore.''
Jun 28, 2001 · LOS ANGELES -- Jack Lemmon, the two-time Oscar winner whose acting talents ranged from adroit comedies "The Apartment" and "Some Like It Hot" to the dramatic intensity of "Days of Wine and Roses ...
America bade a fond farewell yesterday to Jack Lemmon, one of its most acclaimed screen actors who, over a long and fruitful career, proved himself uniquely able to raise the neuroses and quirks ...
Jun 28, 2001 · Jack Lemmon was once called Hollywood's greatest worried . Here in "The Apartment," a 1960 film, he's a drone in an big corporation whose apartment is the scene of almost all the action. ACTRESS:
Jack Lemmon, the affable, sweet-faced actor known for such films as “Some Like It Hot” and “The Apartment,” and a 1985 revival of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, died June 27 of cancer ...
