Jack Lemmon filmography and discography

Jack Lemmon (born John Uhler Lemmon III, February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor of film, stage and television. He had an extended professional relationship with the director Billy Wilder and the actor Walter Matthau.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1949	The Lady Takes a Sailor	Plasterer	Michael Curtiz	Uncredited bit part
1950	Once Too Often[1]	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	Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver	John Ford Mervyn LeRoy	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1955	My Sister Eileen	Robert "Bob" Baker	Richard Quine
1955	Hollywood Bronc Busters	Himself	Ralph Staub	Short
1956	You Can't Run Away from It	Peter Warne	Dick Powell
1957	Fire Down Below	Tony	Robert Parrish
1957	Operation Mad Ball	Private Hogan	Richard Quine	Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1958	Cowboy	Frank Harris	Delmer Daves
1958	Bell, Book and Candle	Nicky Holroyd	Richard Quine
1959	Some Like It Hot	Jerry "Gerald" / "Daphne"	Billy Wilder	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1959	It Happened to Jane	George Denham	Richard Quine
1960	The Apartment	C. C. Baxter	Billy Wilder	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
1960	Stowaway in the Sky	Narrator	Albert Lamorisse	Voice
1960	Pepe	Daphne	George Sidney	Cameo
1960	The Wackiest Ship in the Army	Lt. Rip Crandall	Richard Murphy
1962	The Notorious Landlady	William "Bill" Gridley	Richard Quine
1962	Days of Wine and Roses	Joe Clay	Blake Edwards	Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Foreign Performer San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Sant Jordi Award for Best Performance in a Foreign Film Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1963	Irma la Douce	Nestor Patou / Lord X	Billy Wilder	Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1963	Under the Yum Yum Tree	Hogan	David Swift	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1964	Good Neighbor Sam	Sam Bissell	David Swift	Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1965	How to Murder Your Wife	Stanley Ford	Richard Quine	Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1965	The Great Race	Professor Fate / Prince Hapnick	Blake Edwards	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1966	The Fortune Cookie	Harry Hinkle	Billy Wilder
1967	Luv	Harry Berlin	Clive Donner
1968	There Comes a Day			Short
1968	The Odd Couple	Felix Ungar	Gene Saks	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1969	The April Fools	Howard Brubaker	Stuart Rosenberg	Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1970	The Out-of-Towners	George Kellerman	Arthur Hiller	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1971	Kotch	Sleeping Bus Passenger	Jack Lemmon	Uncredited
1972	The War Between Men and Women	Peter Edward Wilson	Melville Shavelson
1972	Avanti!	Wendell Armbruster, Jr.	Billy Wilder	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1973	Save the Tiger	Harry Stoner	John G. Avildsen	Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1974	Killer Cop	Narrator	Luciano Ercoli	Voice
1974	The Front Page	Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson	Billy Wilder	David di Donatello for Best Actor (shared with Walter Matthau) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1975	Wednesday	Jerry Murphy	Marvin Kupfer	Short
1975	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Mel Edison	Melvin Frank
1976	The Gentleman Tramp	Narrator	Richard Patterson	Voice
1976	Alex & the Gypsy	Alexander Main	John Korty
1977	Airport '77	Captain Don Gallagher	Jerry Jameson
1979	The China Syndrome	Jack Godell	James Bridges	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor David di Donatello for Best Actor (tied with Dustin Hoffman) BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
1980	Tribute	Scottie Templeton	Bob Clark	Silver Bear for Best Actor[2] Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1981	Buddy Buddy	Victor Clooney	Billy Wilder
1982	Missing	Ed Horman	Costa-Gavras	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1984	Mass Appeal	Father Tim Farley	Glenn Jordan
1985	Macaroni	Robert Traven	Ettore Scola
1986	That's Life!	Harvey Fairchild	Blake Edwards	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1989	Dad	Jake Tremont	Gary David Goldberg	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1991	JFK	Jack Martin	Oliver Stone
1992	Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy	Himself	Barbara Kopple Danny Schechter
1992	The Player	Himself	Robert Altman
1992	Glengarry Glen Ross	Shelley Levene	James Foley	National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Valladolid International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor
1993	Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman In Carver County	Himself	John Dorr Mike Kaplan
1993	Short Cuts	Paul Finnigan	Robert Altman	Golden Globe Award for Best Ensemble Cast Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast
1993	Grumpy Old Men	John Gustafson	Donald Petrie
1995	The Grass Harp	Dr. Morris Ritz	Charles Matthau
1995	Grumpier Old Men	John Gustafson	Howard Deutch	Nominated—American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture
1996	Getting Away with Murder	Max Mueller / Karl Luger	Harvey Miller
1996	My Fellow Americans	President Russell P. Kramer	Peter Segal
1996	Hamlet	Marcellus	Kenneth Branagh
1997	Out to Sea	Herb Sullivan	Martha Coolidge
1997	Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's	Himself	Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini
1998	Puppies for Sale	Pet Shop Owner	Ronald Krauss	Short
1998	The Odd Couple II	Felix Ungar	Howard Deutch
2000	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Narrator / Hardy Greaves	Robert Redford	Uncredited (final film role)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1948	Studio One	Fred Stevens	Episode: "June Moon"
1949–1950	That Wonderful Guy	Harold	3 episodes
1950	Toni Twin Time	Host	Episode dated May 31, 1950
1951	The Ad-Libbers	Celebrity panelist	5 episodes
1951–1952	The Frances Langford-Don Ameche Show	Newlywed	"The Couple Next Door" sketches
1952	Heaven for Betsy	Pete Bell	13 episodes
1954	The Road of Life	Surgeon
1956	Ford Star Jubilee	John Wilkes Booth[3]	Episode: "The Day Lincoln Was Shot"
1957	What's My Line?	Mystery Guest	Season 9, Episode 10
1957–1958	Alcoa Theatre	Henry Coyle Steve Tyler Wally Mall Lieutenant Tony Crawford Edward King	Episode: "Disappearance" Episode: "Most Likely to Succeed" Episode: "Loudmouth" Episode: "The Days of November" Episode: "Souvenir"
1959	Playhouse 90	David Poole	Episode: "Face of a Hero"
1972	'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin	Host	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
1976	The Entertainer	Archie Rice	Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1987	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone, Sr.	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
1988	The Murder of Mary Phagan	Gov. John Slaton	Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
1990	The Earth Day Special	Coach Stewart
1992	For Richer, for Poorer	Aram Katourian	Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries
1993	A Life in the Theatre	Robert	Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
1994	Wild West	Host
1996	A Weekend in the Country	Bud Bailey
1997	The Simpsons	Frank Ormand	Voice, Episode: "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
1997	12 Angry Men	Juror No. 8	Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1998	The Long Way Home	Thomas Gerrin
1999	Inherit the Wind	Henry Drummond	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1999	Tuesdays with Morrie	Morrie Schwartz	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

Discography

A Twist of Lemmon (Eic, 1958)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
"Daphne"/"Sleepy Lagoon" (single not contained in the above album, 1959)
""I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"/"I Cover the Waterfront" (single, 1960)
"The Apartment"/"Lemmon Blues" (single, piano solos, 1960)
Jack Lemmon Plays Piano Selections from "Irma La Douce" (Capitol, 1963)
Piano and Vocals (1990)
Peter and the Wolf (1991)
A Twist of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot (Collector's Choice reissue, 2001)

References

US National Archives (2015-10-27), Once Too Often, retrieved 2018-04-23
"Berlinale 1981: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
Shipman, David (1989). The Great Movie Stars: The International Years. London: Macdonald. p. 320.

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[1] US National Archives (2015-10-27), Once Too Often, retrieved 2018-04-23

[berlinale1981-2] "Berlinale 1981: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved August 31, 2010.

[3] Shipman, David (1989). The Great Movie Stars: The International Years. London: Macdonald. p. 320.