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.
Filmography (19)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
as Narrator (voice)
The Odd Couple II
as Felix Ungar
12 Angry Men
as Juror 8
My Fellow Americans
as President Russell P. Kramer
Grumpier Old Men
as John Gustafson
Grumpy Old Men
as John Gustafson
Short Cuts
as Paul Finnigan
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Shelley Levene
JFK
as Jack Martin
Missing
as Ed Horman
The China Syndrome
as Jack Godell
Airport '77
as Don Gallagher
The Odd Couple
as Felix Ungar
The Great Race
as Professor Fate
How to Murder Your Wife
as Stanley Ford
Irma la Douce
as Nestor Patou
The Apartment
as C.C. Baxter
Some Like It Hot
as Jerry (Daphne)
Mister Roberts
as Ensign Frank Pulver