People
Jack Lemmon
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
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.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Stage on Screen: A Theatrical Journey
From the claustrophobic confines of a cabin to the sprawling sets of a Shakespearean epic, these eight films celebrate the art of theatre translated to cinema.
7 films
The Many Faces We Wear
From classic Hollywood to French farce and beyond, a journey through cinema's most audacious transformations and borrowed identities.
7 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Hamlet
1996 · Marcellus
A Weekend in the Country
1996 · Bud Bailey
Grumpy Old Men
1993 · John Gustafson
Short Cuts
1993 · Paul Finnigan
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Shelley Levene
JFK
1991 · Jack Martin
Airport '77
1977 · Don Gallagher
The Front Page
1974 · Hildebrand Johnson
The Odd Couple
1968 · Felix Ungar
The Fortune Cookie
1966 · Harry Hinkle
Irma la Douce
1963 · Nestor Patou
The Apartment
1960 · C.C. Baxter
Some Like It Hot
1959 · Jerry (Daphne)