![]() If my character was having a nervous breakdown, I started to have one". The biography quotes Lemmon as saying, "I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play. 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". He was a favorite of director Billy Wilder, starring in the films Some Like It Hot (for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti!, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy. ![]() Lemmon discussed his friendship with Kovacs in the documentary Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius. In 1977, PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs' television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series. Lemmon and Kovacs became close friends and appeared together in two subsequent films, Bell, Book and Candle and It Happened to Jane. Įarly in Lemmon's career he met comedian Ernie Kovacs while co-starring with him in Operation Mad Ball. He made two films with Curtis, and eleven with Matthau. He was close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau and Kevin Spacey. Lemmon worked with actresses such as Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Remick, Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-Margret and Sophia Loren. Lemmon's film debut was a bit part as a plasterer/painter in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor, but he went unnoticed until his debut, opposite Judy Holliday, in the 1954 comedy It Should Happen to You. ![]() Jack Lemmon, attending an awards ceremony in 1988 He could also play the harmonica, guitar, organ, and the double bass. He was enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. After graduation with a degree in War Service Sciences in 1947, Lemmon took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard College (Class of 1947), where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs – and president of the Hasty Pudding Club – as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.Īt Harvard, Lemmon was a member of the V-12 Navy College Training Program and was commissioned by the United States Navy, serving briefly as an ensign on an aircraft carrier during World War II before returning to Harvard after completing his military service. During his acceptance of his lifetime achievement award, he stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. His paternal grandmother was from an Irish immigrant family. (1893–1962), the president of a doughnut company. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue ( née Noel 1896–1967) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr. Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925, in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He starred in over 60 films, such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple and its sequel 30 years later, The Odd Couple II, (and other frequent collaborations with Odd Couple co-star Walter Matthau), Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won Best Actor at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Tuesdays with Morrie, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men. Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. John Uhler " Jack" Lemmon III (Febru– June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician.
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