Movies by Jack Lemmon
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The Jack Lemmon Film Collection: Special Features (2009)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Chris Lemmon, Julie Bennett …
Directed by: Al Sack
Chris Lemmon narrates this intimate biographical portrait of his father, two-time Oscar-winning actor Jack Lemmon, that features revealing interviews with Lemmon's closest friends and…
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Marilyn's Man (2004)
Cast: James Dougherty, Evegenia Nesterarova, Marilyn Monroe …
Directed by: Schani Krug
The myths about Marilyn Monroe are finally debunked through the eyes of Marilyn's first husband, Jim Dougherty. In this unique documentary, Marilyn's early life as Norma Jean Baker…
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Alan King: Inside the Comedy Mind: Platinum Collection (2003)
Cast: Carol Burnett, Robin Williams, Bob Hope …
What goes into a comedy skit or a perfectly riotous stand-up routine? Find out from the likes of Carol Burnett, Robin Williams, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon and Billy Crystal, who are just a handful…
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Directors: Sidney Lumet (2002)
Cast: Christopher Walken, Andy Garcia, Jacqueline Bisset …
Endowed with an uncanny ability to elicit masterful performances from his actors, Sidney Lumet -- who helmed such landmark films as Network and 12 Angry Men -- has earned a reputation as one…
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Cast: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron …
Directed by: Robert Redford
Devastated by his experiences during World War I, once-promising golfer Rannulph Junuh has become a poker-playing alcoholic whose perfect swing is gone -- until mysterious caddy Bagger Vance…
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On Cukor (2000)
Cast: Jean Simmons, Peter Bogdanovich, George Cukor …
Directed by: Robert Trachtenberg
From the PBS series "American Masters" comes this revealing, 90-minute documentary that examines the life of cinematic legend George Cukor, who helmed a string classic films that includes The…
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Frank Sinatra Memorial (1999)
Cast: Ed McMahon, Tommy Sands, Tony Bennett …
Celebrities who knew Frank Sinatra (and even those who didn't) discuss his legacy, from his crooning to his acting career to his personal life. Sinatra is eulogized by Tony Curtis, Faye…
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Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz …
Directed by: Mick Jackson
When Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria) learns his beloved professor, Morrie Schwartz (Jack Lemmon), is dying with Lou Gehrig's Disease, he reconnects with his mentor and learns from him all over…
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Forever Hollywood (1999)
Cast: Warren Beatty, John Waters, Annette Bening …
Directed by: Todd McCarthy, Arnold Glassman
In this documentary about the California town where stars are made, 23 prominent celebrities -- including Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges -- tell their personal stories about…
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Inherit the Wind (1999)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, David Wells …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Jack Lemmon won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of lawyer Henry Drummond, the fictional counterpart of Clarence Darrow, in this erudite drama about the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial," in which a…
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The Odd Couple II (1998)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski …
Directed by: Neil Simon
Fussy neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) and incorrigible slob Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) haven't seen each other since they shared an apartment life three decades ago but…
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The Long Way Home (1998)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sarah Paulson, Kristin Griffith …
Directed by: Glenn Jordan
After his wife dies, Tom moves in with this son and daughter-in-law, but he feels stifled in his new surroundings. After meeting a free-spirited college student, he decides to hitchhike with…
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Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasens (1997)
Cast: Raymond Bilbool, Tommy Gallagher, Quentin Tarantino …
Directed by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
This amazingly candid, affectionate documentary chronicles the closing of legendary L.A. restaurant Chasen's, which shut its doors in 1995 after 60 years of serving its famous chili…
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Out to Sea (1997)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon …
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Con artist Charlie (Walter Matthau) persuades his widower brother-in-law, Herb (Jack Lemmon), to join him on a cruise to meet lonely, rich ladies. But he doesn't mention that…
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My Fellow Americans (1996)
Cast: James Garner, Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd …
Directed by: Segal. Peter
Jack Lemmon and James Garner star as ex-presidents and former political foes who unite in the face of adversity. They're forced to overcome their partisan bickering when the current…
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Getting Away with Murder (1996)
Cast: Harvey Miller, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin …
Jack Lambert (Dan Aykroyd) is convinced that his neighbor Max Mueller (Jack Lemmon) is a Nazi who inflicted pain on many people during the Holocaust. Sure of Mueller's identity, Jack…
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The Grass Harp (1996)
Cast: Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau …
Directed by: Charles Matthau
Following the death of his mother, young Collin (Edward Furlong) goes to live with his two eccentric aunts, whose double-crossing antics make for a lively upbringing for Collin as he grows up…
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Hamlet: Special Edition (1996)
Cast: Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, John Gielgud …
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Veteran Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh delivers a brooding performance as the Danish prince driven to madness by his father's death in this four-hour production of one of the…
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Grumpier Old Men (1995)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Sophia Loren …
Directed by: Howard Deutch
In this sequel to the hilarious comedy Grumpy Old Men, a family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max (Jack Lemmon and Walter…
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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max (Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow (Ann-Margret) moves…
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Short Cuts (1993)
Cast: Frances McDormand, Bruce Davison, Anne Archer …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Robert Altman's mosaic masterpiece, based on Raymond Carver's short stories, presents a variety of characters -- including a baker, a phone-sex provider and a clown -- whose stale…
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin …
Directed by: James Foley
Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris and Alan Arkin chew the words of David Mamet's script (based on his own stage play) as a group of Chicago real estate salesmen vying for the best…
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For Richer, for Poorer (1992)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jonathan Silverman, Joanna Gleason …
Directed by: Jay Sandrich
Basking in the comfort of his father's self-made millions, Michael Katourian (Jonathan Silverman) has no idea what the working world is like. But when his dad (Jack Lemmon) gets an itch…
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JFK: Special Edition (1991)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones …
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone's fascinating film about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- one of America's most enigmatic and mythical political figures -- is even more dramatic…
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Dad (1989)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis …
Directed by: Gary David Goldberg
Family bonds are revived after a father is diagnosed with cancer in this bittersweet drama. Dutiful son John (Ted Danson) cares for his aging father, Jake (Jack Lemmon), but not without…
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Macaroni (1985)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi …
Directed by: Ettore Scola
Jack Lemmon stars as crabby American World War II veteran Bob Traven, who travels to Italy on a business trip and reunites with wartime buddy Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), whose…
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Mass Appeal (1984)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning …
Directed by: Glenn Jordan
Gregarious priest Father Farley (Jack Lemmon) takes under his wing Mark Dolson (Zeljko Ivanek), a bright, devout seminary student who shakes up the establishment of an affluent Los Angeles…
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Missing (1982)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Constantin Costa-Gavras helmed this thriller based on a true story. John Shea plays Charles Horman, an American expatriate living with his wife, Beth (Sissy Spacek), in a South American…
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The China Syndrome (1979)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas …
Directed by: James Bridges
TV reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) yearns to do hard news and suddenly gets her wish while she and cameraman Richard Adams (Michael Douglas) are covering a routine story at the local…
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Airport '77 (1977)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro …
Directed by: Jerry Jameson
After thieves hijack a luxury 747 carrying a priceless art collection to be delivered to a private estate, the plot goes terribly awry and the plane sinks in the Bermuda Triangle, stranding…
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Airport '77 / The Concorde: Airport '79 (1977)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro …
Directed by: Jerry Jameson, David Lowell Rich, Olivia de Havilland …
The third film in the Airport series finds a jet full of people 50 feet below sea level in the Bermuda Triangle. The oxygen supply dwindles for an art collector (Jimmy Stewart), the pilot…
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks …
Directed by: Melvin Frank
Neil Simon's hit Broadway comedy makes a seamless transition to the big screen. Middle-aged New York City executive Mel has recently been "downsized" and doesn't know where to turn…
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The Front Page (1974)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau play battling newspapermen in 1920s Chicago in this fast-paced version of the comedy classic from director Billy Wilder. Lemmon is ace reporter Hildy Johnson…
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Save the Tiger (1973)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laure Heineman …
Directed by: John G. Avildsen
&NFb;&NFb_;Jack Lemmon won a Best Actor Oscar in 1974 for his gripping performance as Harry Stoner, a Los Angeles dress manufacturer whose business is on the skids. In a desperate move (and…
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Avanti! (1972)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
A troubling event hatches an unlikely romance between a stuffy American and a free-spirited European in this romantic Billy Wilder comedy. When his father dies in a car crash while…
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The Out-of-Towners (1970)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron …
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
&NFb;&NFb_;Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are spectacular as George and Gwen Kellerman, an Ohio couple heading to New York City for George's big job interview in this Neil Simon comedic…
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The Odd Couple (1968)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler …
Directed by: Gene Saks
Tossed out of the house by his wife and close to packing it in, Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) decides the best thing to do is move in with his best pal: barely housebroken, deliberately devolved…
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The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Walter Matthau won an Oscar for his role as Willie Gingrich, a crooked attorney who foresees a financial windfall when Cleveland Browns star "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich) accidentally levels…
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The Great Race (1965)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood …
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Professional daredevil Leslie Gallant (Tony Curtis) convinces turn-of-the-century automakers that a race from New York to Paris will help promote car sales. Leslie's archrival, Prof.…
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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Claire Trevor …
Directed by: Richard Quine
After impetuously wedding a beauty he just met, a cartoonist fantasizes about getting out of the hasty marriage by plotting his wife's murder in his sketchbook. But will life imitate art…
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Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Edward G. Robinson …
Directed by: David Swift
In this urbane comedy of errors, Jack Lemmon (in a BAFTA-nominated performance) stars as happily married ad man Sam Bissel, who must pose as the husband of his wife's sexy friend in…
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Irma La Douce (1963)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
The stars and director of The Apartment reteam for this risqué farce set in Paris. Jack Lemmon is a policeman in the Red Light District who falls in love with hooker Shirley MacLaine…
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Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones …
Directed by: David Swift
Jack Lemmon imbues his role as a lecherous apartment manager with enough slyly comic charm to make viewers overlook the movie's improbable premise -- namely, that an unmarried couple…
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford …
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Joe Clay, a San Francisco public relations man who likes to drink, meets secretary Kirsten Arnesen, who happens to be a teetotaler, and it's a saloon mismatch from the get-go. After a…
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The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Cast: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire …
Directed by: Richard Quine
After moving to London, American diplomat William (Jack Lemmon) begins an exhilarating romance with his sexy landlady, Carlye (Kim Novak). When he learns the police suspects Carlye of killing…
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The Apartment (1960)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
With furthering his career in mind, an insurance clerk lends his apartment to his adulterous higher-ups for their amorous affairs. But his fast track to an executive suite gets derailed when…
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund …
Directed by: Richard Murphy
Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon) is assigned to the &NFi;USS Echo&NFi_;, an aging ship that should have made its last run long ago. Unbeknownst to him, he and his crew of misfit soldiers are…
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
When musicians Jerry and Joe accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, they get out of town the only way they know how -- dressed as women. But things heat up on the road…
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It Happened to Jane (1959)
Cast: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs …
Directed by: Richard Quine
Single mother and fishmonger Jane Osgood (Doris Day) may be in over her head when she receives a large order from the Marshall Town Country Club for lobsters. Unfortunately, she fails to…
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Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon …
Directed by: Richard Quine
The same year they co-starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, James Stewart and Kim Novak teamed up for this popular screen version of a hit Broadway comedy. Novak is a witch in Greenwich…
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Cowboy (1958)
Cast: Vaughn Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford …
Directed by: Delmer Daves
A rip-roarin' Western based on a couple of real-life characters, Cowboy stars Jack Lemmon as Frank Harris, a tenderfoot cattleman just arrived from the East to live out his dream, and…
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Fire Down Below (1957)
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon …
Directed by: Robert Parrish
Old friends and business associates Tony (Jack Lemmon) and Felix (Robert Mitchum) are getting along swimmingly until an attractive woman named Irena (Rita Hayworth) creates a discord between…
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Operation Mad Ball (1957)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant …
Directed by: Richard Quine
Fueled by his feelings for a pretty World War II-era nurse (Kathryn Grant), the mischievous Pvt. Hogan (Jack Lemmon) plots to throw a "mad ball" for love-starved nurses and soldiers at a…
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Mister Roberts (1955)
Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell …
Directed by: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy
A hilarious and heartfelt military comedy-drama co-directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, Mister Roberts stars Henry Fonda as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the…
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My Sister Eileen (1955)
Cast: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett …
Directed by: Richard Quine
Actress Eileen Sherwood (Janet Leigh) and her sister Ruth (Betty Garrett) plan to take Manhattan by storm once they arrive. But Ruth's dreams are immediately quashed when her new boss,…
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It Should Happen to You (1954)
Cast: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon …
Directed by: George Cukor
Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) has found little recognition as a model/actress and aims to boost her persona by renting a billboard -- smack-dab in the middle of Manhattan -- adorned with her…
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Phffft (1954)
Cast: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson …
Directed by: Mark Robson
Robert and Nina Tracey (Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday) resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to…
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Kotch (1971)
Cast: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr …
Directed by: Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon directs this poignant film about an aging widower, Joseph P. Kotcher (Walter Matthau), whose son and daughter-in-law want to put him in a retirement home. Refusing to go along…