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Best Movies

He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor for his role as Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver in comedy drama film Mister Roberts (1955).

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role as Harry Stoner in drama film Save the Tiger (1973).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor also won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role as Jerry (Gerald) / "Daphne" in romantic comedy movie Some Like It Hot (1959).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor also won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role Calvin Clifford (C.C.) "Bud" Baxter in romantic comedy film The Apartment (1960).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, a BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his role as Joe Clay in drama movie Days of Wine and Roses (1962).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy also won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor for his role as Jack Godell in disaster thriller film The China Syndrome (1979).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his role as Scottie Templeton in comedy drama movie Tribute (1980).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, a BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his role as Edmund "Ed" Horman in biographical drama film Missing (1982).

He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role as Juror #8 in drama film 12 Angry Men (1977).

He won the Golden Globe Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Moviefor his role as Henry Drummond in drama movie Inherit the Wind (1999).

He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role as Archie Rice in drama movie The Entertainer (1976).

He was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his roles in films:

Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) comedy as Hogan

Irma la Douce (1963) romantic comedy as Nestor Patou / Lord X

The Great Race (1965) slapstick comedy as Professor Fate and Prince Friedrich Hapnick

The Odd Couple (1968) comedy as Felix Ungar

The Out-of-Towners (1970) comedy as George Kellerman

The Front Page (1974) black comedy drama as Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson

He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role as Morrie Schwartz in drama movie Tuesdays with Morrie (1999).

He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role as Wendell Armbruster, Jr. in comedy film Avanti! (1972).

He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Robert in comedy drama movie A Life in the Theatre (1993).

He played John Gustafson Jr. in romantic comedy films:

Grumpy Old Men (1993)

Grumpier Old Men (1995)

He won the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his role as Sheldon "Shelley" Levene in drama film Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

Best TV Shows

He hosted TV special 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gers (1972), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical.

He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Governor John Slaton in miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988).

He played Pete Bell in CBS sitcom Heaven for Betsy (1952).

Facts

Attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts and Rivers Country Day School.

Graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA in 1943.

Graduated from Harvard College (1947), with a degree in War Service Sciences.

Studied acting under coach Uta Hagen at HB Studio in New York City

Had Irish, English, French, Dutch and Welsh ancestry.

He was the only child.

He was also a member of the V-12 Navy College Training Program.

He was accomplished self-taught pianist.

He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Scottie Templeton in a play "Tribute" (1978), at Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as James Tyrone in a play "Long Day's Journey into Night" (1986), at Broadhurst Theatre.

He was nominated for the Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album for Harry S Truman: A Journey To Independence (1996).

He was awarded the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1988.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located on 6357 Hollywood Boulevard, in 1960.

He was good friends with Walter Matthau and Biff Elliot.

Jack died on June 27, 2001, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76.

Spouse

He was married to:

Felicia Farr (1962-2001) they had a daughter, Courtney

Cynthia Stone (1950-1956) they had a son, Chris Lemmon

Relationships

He dated Mona Knox (1956-1957).

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