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Super Star & Best Actor Winner

Jack Lemmon is best remembered to his many fans as a brash, humorous, soulful young man trying to make his way through life and love in the big city.

Notable films include: MISTER ROBERTS, SOME LIKE IT HOT, DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, THE APARTMENT, THE GREAT RACE, THE ODD COUPLE, APRIL FOOLS, SAVE THE TIGER, MISSING, and MY FELLOW AMERICANS.

Jack Lemmon's last film credits include:THE ODD COUPLE 2, PUPPIES FOR SALE and OUT TO SEA.

	Jack Lemmon 1973 Best Actor SAVE THE TIGER (Drama) Jack Lemmon received his Best Actor Oscar for playing the disillusioned businessman whose American dream has gone sour.
ABOUT JACK LEMMON (1925 - 2001) American leading actor with Broadway experience, who frequently performed in comedies. Jack Lemmon's real name was John Uhler Lemmon III.  Lemmon often played an Everyman type character with such penetrating insight into character that he won two Oscars and was nominated another 6 times. In 1955 Jack Lemmon won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Ens. Pulver, a wheeler dealer in the military in MISTER ROBERTS. He was nominated next for his gender bending role in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy, SOME LIKE IT HOT, with Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis.  Jack Lemmon played one of a pair of out-of-work musicians who pose as women in order to get jobs in an all-girl band.  Lemmon begins to get comically carried away in the charade and comes to enjoy cross dressing and the attentions of a wealthy suitor.  In the 1960 drama, THE APARTMENT, he was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of a low level business man who lends the key to his apartment out to company execs, and then gets involved with a discarded lover played by Shirley MacLaine who was left in his flat. THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, a 1962 drama, detailed the slide into alcoholism of a married couple and Lemmon was again nominated for an Oscar for his role as the husband. In the 1973 movie SAVE THE TIGER, Jack Lemmon plays a businessman in the throes of the difficulties of mid-life as the film follows his misadventures over the course of 36 hours.  Lemmon won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. In 1979, Jack Lemmon played with Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas in the nuclear reactor thriller, CHINA SYNDROME, as a shift supervisor at the plant.  He was again nominated for his portrayal. In 1981, Lemmon played a shallow Broadway press agent confronting his absent son and his own mortality in the movie, TRIBUTE.  Jack Lemmon was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award. Lemmon's final nomination was for his portrayal of the father of a journalist gone missing in Latin America, in the1982 mystery MISSING.  In 1971, Jack Lemmon directed the movie KOTCH, the story of the tribulations of a grandfather with his family. Jack Lemmon earned other Best Actor nominations: SOME LIKE IT HOT (59) THE APARTMENT (60) DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (62) THE CHINA SYNDROME (79) TRIBUTE (80) MISSING (82) Lemmon's other films include: IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU PHFFFT COWBOY BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE OPERATION MAD BALL IRMA LA DOUCE GOOD NEIGHBOUR SAM HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE THE GREAT RACE THE FORTUNE COOKIE THE ODD COUPLE THE APRIL FOOLS AVANTI THE FRONT PAGE AIRPORT 77 THAT'S LIFE DAD JFK GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS SHORT CUTS GRUMPY OLD MEN GRUMPIER OLD MEN MY FELLOW AMERICANS OUT TO SEA Jack Lemmon's television series include: HEAVEN FOR BETSY (52) TWIST OF FATE (62)
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