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Jack Lemmon
Age: 76 (passed away Jun. 27th, 2001)
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Place: Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Born: Feb. 8th, 1925
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Jack Lemmon's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Jack Lemmon's father was the president of a doughnut company, and Jack attended prep schools before Harvard, where he was in the Dramatic Club. After service as a Navy ensign, he worked in a beer hall (playing piano), on radio, off Broadway, TV and Broadway. His movie debut was with Judy Holliday in It Should Happen to You (1954). He won Best Supporting Actor as Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts (1955). He received nominations in comedy (Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960)) and drama (Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The China Syndrome (1979), Tribute (1980) and Missing (1982)). He won the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger (1973) and the Cannes Best Actor award for "Syndrome" and "Missing". He made his debut as a director with Kotch (1971) and in 1985 on Broadway in "Long Day's Journey into Night". In 1988 he received the Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute.
TRIVIA:
- Is a recipient of the Connor Award, an award given to someone who displays an excellence in the communicative arts, handed out by the brothers of the fraternity Phi Alpha Tau from Emerson College in Boston.
- First actor to win two "Best Actor" Award at the Cannes Film Festival. ('Dean Stockwell' (qv) won twice at the festival before, but he had to share both of his awards with his co-stars)
- Son, 'Chris Lemmon' (qv), with 'Cynthia Stone' (qv).
- He and _The China Syndrome (1979)_ (qv) co-stars 'Michael Douglas (I)' (qv) and 'Jane Fonda' (qv) have all won Oscars for Leading Roles. Lemmon won for _Save the Tiger (1973)_ (qv), Fonda won for _Klute (1971)_ (qv), and Douglas won for _Wall Street (1987)_ (qv).
- (October 1997) Ranked #47 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
- Openly admitted on _"Inside the Actors Studio" (1994)_ (qv) that he was an alcoholic.
- His headstone reads "Jack Lemmon in".
- He once had a Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavor named after him: "Jack Lemmon". It was still being produced in the early 1980s but has since been discontinued and is not listed on the Baskin-Robbins website.
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