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Jack Lemmon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jack Lemmon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jack Lemmon

Lemmon with his frequent film co-star and friend, Walter Matthau
Birth name John Uhler Lemmon III
Born February 8, 1925
Flag of United States Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Died June 27, 2001
Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse(s) Cynthia Stone (May 7, 1950 - 1956) 1 child
Felicia Farr (August 17, 1962 - June 27, 2001) (until his death) 1 child
Academy Awards
Best Actor
1973 Save the Tiger
Best Supporting Actor
1957 Mister Roberts
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
1999 Tuesdays with Morrie
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1960 Some Like It Hot
1961 The Apartment
1973 Avanti!
Cecil B. DeMille Award (1991)
Best Actor - Mini-series
2000 Inherit the Wind
BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actor
1959 Some Like It Hot
1960 The Apartment
Best Actor
1979 The China Syndrome

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001), better known as Jack Lemmon, was one of the most award-winning American actors of his generation.

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[edit] Life and career

Lemmon was born in an elevator in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where his father, John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., was the president of a doughnut company. His mother was Mildred Burgess Noel.[1] After attending Phillips Academy and Harvard University (becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club), Lemmon joined the Navy, received V-12 training and served as an ensign. On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway.

Lemmon's film debut was a bit part in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor, but he was not noticed until his official debut opposite Judy Holliday in the 1954 It Should Happen to You.

He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Irma La Douce, Avanti, and The Front Page. Wilder felt Lemmon had a natural tendency toward overacting that had to be tempered; the Wilder biography "Nobody's Perfect" quotes the director as saying: "Lemmon, I would describe him as a ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat."

The same Billy Wilder biography quotes Jack Lemmon as saying: "I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play... If my character was having a nervous breakdown I started to have one."

Jack Lemmon at Expo 1967.
Jack Lemmon at Expo 1967.

Lemmon was awarded Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts (1955), and Best Actor for Save the Tiger (1973), being the first actor to achieve this double. He was also nominated for Best Actor award for his role in the controversial film Missing in 1982. In 1988, the American Film Institute gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Days of Wine and Roses (1962) was one of his favorite roles. He portrayed Joe Clay, a young, fun-loving alcoholic businessman. In that film, Lemmon delivered the line, "My name is Joe Clay ... I'm an alcoholic." Three and a half decades later, he admitted on the television program, Inside the Actors Studio, that he was not acting when he delivered that line, that he really was an alcoholic in real life.

Throughout his career, Lemmon often appeared in films alongside actor Walter Matthau. They would go on to be one of the most beloved duos in cinema history. Among their pairings was as Felix Unger (Lemmon) and Oscar Madison (Matthau) in the 1968 film, The Odd Couple. They also starred together in The Fortune Cookie, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy. Additionally, both had small parts in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, JFK (the only film in which they both appear, but share no screentime). In 1993, the duo teamed up again to star in Grumpy Old Men. The film was a surprise hit, earning the two actors a new generation of young fans. During the rest of the decade, they would go on to star together in Out to Sea, Grumpier Old Men and the widely-panned The Odd Couple II.

At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for "Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie" for his role in Twelve Angry Men. He lost the award to Ving Rhames. After accepting the award, Rhames asked Lemmon to come onstage and in a move that stunned the audience, gave his award to him. (The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globes, decided to have a second award made and sent to Rhames.)

Lemmon was one of the best-liked actors in Hollywood. He is remembered as taking time for people, as the actor Kevin Spacey recalled in a tribute. When already regarded as a legend, he met the teenage Spacey backstage after a theater performance and spoke to him about pursuing an acting career. Spacey would later work with Lemmon in the critically acclaimed film Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), where one of its most powerful scenes involves Lemmon's character begging Spacey's character for another shot at making a sale.

Lemmon was married twice. His son, Chris Lemmon (born in 1954 by first wife, Cynthia Stone), is an actor. His second wife was the actress Felicia Farr, with whom he had a daughter, Courtney, born in 1966.

Jack Lemmon died of "carcinomatosis and metastatic cancer of bladder to colon" (according to his death certificate at [1]) on June 27, 2001, at the age of 76. He had been fighting the disease, very privately, for two years before losing the battle.

He is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, where Walter Matthau is also buried. In typical Jack Lemmon wit, his gravestone simply reads 'Jack Lemmon - in'. After Matthau's death in 2000, Lemmon appeared with friends and relatives of the actor on a "Larry King Live" show in tribute. A year later, many of the same people appeared on the show again to pay tribute to Lemmon.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] TV work

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] Academy Awards

Awards
Preceded by
Edmond O'Brien
for The Barefoot Contessa
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1955
for Mister Roberts
Succeeded by
Anthony Quinn
for Lust for Life
Preceded by
Danny Kaye
for Me and the Colonel
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1960
for Some Like It Hot
1961
for The Apartment
Succeeded by
Glenn Ford
for Pocketful of Miracles
Preceded by
Chaim Topol
for Fiddler on the Roof
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1973
for Avanti!
Succeeded by
George Segal
for A Touch of Class
Preceded by
Marlon Brando
for The Godfather
Academy Award for Best Actor
1973
for Save the Tiger
Succeeded by
Art Carney
for Harry and Tonto
Preceded by
Barbara Stanwyck
AFI Life Achievement Award
1988
Succeeded by
Gregory Peck
Preceded by
Audrey Hepburn
Cecil B. DeMille Award
1991
Succeeded by
Robert Mitchum
Preceded by
Stanley Tucci
for Winchell
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Mini-series
2000
for Inherit The Wind
Succeeded by
Brian Dennehy
for Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Preceded by
Jerry Lewis
29th Academy Awards
Oscars host
30th Academy Awards (with Bob Hope, David Niven, Rosalind Russell, and James Stewart)
Succeeded by
Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall, and Mort Sahl
31st Academy Awards
Preceded by
Frank Sinatra
35th Academy Awards
Oscars host
36th Academy Awards
Succeeded by
Bob Hope
37th Academy Awards
Preceded by
Bob Hope
40th Academy Awards
Oscars host
44th Academy Awards (with Sammy Davis, Jr., Helen Hayes, and Alan King)
Succeeded by
Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson
45th Academy Awards
Preceded by
Johnny Carson
56th Academy Awards
Oscars host
57th Academy Awards
Succeeded by
Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, and Robin Williams
58th Academy Awards

[edit] Golden Globe Awards

Currently, Jack Lemmon holds the record for most Golden Globe nominations with twenty-two.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

Persondata
NAME Lemmon, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemmon, John Uhler III
SHORT DESCRIPTION actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Newton, Massachusetts, United States
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2001
PLACE OF DEATH Los Angeles, California, United States

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