"It's magic time."
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor whose career spanned acrosss six decades and earned him eight Academy Award nominations (including two wins), in the process making him the first person to win both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
Lemmon was married twice (to Cynthia Stone from 1950 to 1956, to Felicia Farr from 1962 to his death) and had two children, including Chris Lemmon. Sydney Lemmon is his granddaughter.
Partial filmography:
Film roles
- It Should Happen to You (1954) as Pete Sheppard
- Phffft! (1954) as Robert Tracy
- Mister Roberts (1955) as Ensign Frank Pulvernote
- My Sister Eileen (1955) as Robert "Bob" Baker
- Bell, Book and Candle (1958) as Nicky Holroyd
- Some Like It Hot (1959) as Jerry / "Daphne"note
- The Apartment (1960) as C. C. Baxternote
- Days of Wine and Roses (1962) as Joe Claynote
- Irma la Douce (1963) as Nestor Patou
- How to Murder Your Wife (1965) as Stanley Ford
- The Great Race (1965) as Professor Fate/Prince Hapnick
- The Fortune Cookie (1966) as Harry Hinkle
- Luv (1967) as Harry Berlin
- The Odd Couple (1968) as Felix Ungar
- The Out-of-Towners (1970) as George Kellerman
- Avanti! (1972) as Wendell Armbruster Jr.
- Save the Tiger (1973) as Harry Stonernote
- The Front Page (1974) as Hildy Johnson
- Airport '77 (1977) as Capt. Don Gallagher
- The China Syndrome (1979) as Jack Godellnote
- missing. (1982) as Ed Hormannote
- JFK (1991) as Jack Martin
- The Player (1992) as Himself
- Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) as Shelley Levene
- Short Cuts (1993) as Paul Finnigan
- Grumpy Old Men (1993) as John Gustafson
- Grumpier Old Men (1995) as John Gustafson
- My Fellow Americans (1996) as President Russell P. Kramer
- Hamlet (1996) as Marcellus
- 12 Angry Men (1997) as Juror #8
- Out to Sea (1997) as Herb Sullivan
- The Odd Couple II (1998) as Felix Ungar
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) as the Narrator
Tropes associated with Jack Lemmon's career include:
- Billed Above the Title: Jokingly invoked with the epitaph on his Real Life gravestone:JACK LEMMON in
- Large Ham: When he wants to ham it up, he'll ham it up, particularly in comedies.
- Star-Making Role: His Oscar-winning turn as Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts.
- Those Two Actors: Appeared in ten movies with his good friend Walter Matthau, although in one of them (JFK) they have no shared scenes. Matthau also starred in Lemmon's sole directorial effort, 1971's Kotch.
- Tom Hanks Syndrome: Was considered to be mainly a comedic actor prior to his Oscar-nominated role in Days of Wine and Roses, which resulted in more dramatic parts (although he also continued doing comedies).