Jerry Lewis Movie Rankings
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 3.2819 out of 4 stars for King of Comedy
3.2819
Rupert Pupkin will do anything to be a comedian. He believes one appearance on his favorite late night talk show will make him a star, but when the host won't commit to an appearance he conspires with an obsessed fan to hold him hostage. ... more about King of Comedy
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $4.11 
(6 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.7786 out of 4 stars for Nutty Professor
2.7786
Professor Julius Kelp is a nerd who's been picked on by everyone. After the football coach humiliates him in front of his class and his beautiful student, Stella, Julius decides he will create a potion. ... more about Nutty Professor
DVD from $3.25 
(5 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.7725 out of 4 stars for Bellboy
2.7725
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. ... more about Bellboy
DVD from $7.18 
(4 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.7725 out of 4 stars for Errand Boy
2.7725
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. ... more about Errand Boy
DVD from $5.20 
(3 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.7440 out of 4 stars for Ladies Man
2.7440
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. ... more about Ladies Man
DVD from $3.90 
(4 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.6706 out of 4 stars for Mr. Saturday Night
2.6706
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. ... more about Mr. Saturday Night
DVD from $1.98 
(3 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.6101 out of 4 stars for Funny Bones
2.6101
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. ... more about Funny Bones
DVD from $3.25 
(4 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.5874 out of 4 stars for My Friend Irma
2.5874
Based on the long-running radio show. Irma is a likeable airhead who meddles in her roommate's love-life. ... more about My Friend Irma
DVD from $5.57 
(4 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.5737 out of 4 stars for Artists and Models
2.5737
Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that, because Eugene is obsessed with pulp fiction comic books and has nightmares because of that. ... more about Artists and Models
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.4965 out of 4 stars for Delicate Delinquent
2.4965
Sidney Pythias (Jerry Lewis) is the a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Darren McGavin as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With McGavin's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too. ... more about Delicate Delinquent
DVD from $2.62 
(4 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.4944 out of 4 stars for Patsy
2.4944
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, cant do anything right. ... more about Patsy
DVD from $3.60 
(4 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.4732 out of 4 stars for Arizona Dream
2.4732
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. ... more about Arizona Dream
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.3873 out of 4 stars for Geisha Boy
2.3873
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy. ... more about Geisha Boy
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.3528 out of 4 stars for Who's Minding the Store?
2.3528
Barbara is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier, a poor young man. She doesn't tell him who she really is and prepares to marry him. But, Mrs. Tuttle (Barbara's mother) doesn't want her daughter to mary such a poor man. ... more about Who's Minding the Store?
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.3456 out of 4 stars for Cinderfella
2.3456
The Cinderella story in form of a farce and with a guy in the leading role: Fowler is a clumsy simpleton, who has to care for his step mother and her two stuck-up sons Maximilian and Rupert. Only in the realms of phantasy he can find comfort. ... more about Cinderfella
DVD from $4.94 
(5 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.3340 out of 4 stars for Jumping Jacks
2.3340
Hap Smith, nightclub entertainer, has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army: with lovely new partner Betsy Carter, Hap plays a clownish parody of a soldier. ... more about Jumping Jacks
DVD from $31.99 
(1 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.2573 out of 4 stars for Don't Raise the Bridge
2.2573
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. ... more about Don't Raise the Bridge
DVD from $3.99 
(0 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.1785 out of 4 stars for Disorderly Orderly
2.1785
Jerome Littlefield is a very nice guy who works in a hospital. The problem is that he can't do anything right, so he destroys everything in his way... ... more about Disorderly Orderly
DVD from $3.90 
(4 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.1773 out of 4 stars for Stooge
2.1773
Dean is an unsuccessful broadway performer until his handlers convince him to become an act using a stooge - a guy already positioned in the audience and picked by Dean to be the butt of his jokes - Jerry Lewis. ... more about Stooge
DVD from $4.94 
(3 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.1240 out of 4 stars for Living It Up
2.1240
Pretty Wally Cooper, a reporter for the New York Chronicle convinces her editor to let her do a series of articles on Homer Flagg, a young man from New Mexico who is believed to be dying as a result of radioactive poisoning. ... more about Living It Up
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.1048 out of 4 stars for Visit to a Small Planet
2.1048
Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in U.F.O's and aliens. ... more about Visit to a Small Planet
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 2.0235 out of 4 stars for Sailor Beware
2.0235
Chasing pretty girls, blowing up a liferaft inside a submarine, virtually every sailor gag ever thought of, and a bunch of songs fill out this Martin and Lewis outing as a pair of sailors. ... more about Sailor Beware
DVD from $31.99 
(1 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.9516 out of 4 stars for Which Way to the Front?
1.9516
Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in it's fight against Hitler. ... more about Which Way to the Front?
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.9328 out of 4 stars for It'$ Only Money
1.9328
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. ... more about It'$ Only Money
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.9277 out of 4 stars for Sad Sack
1.9277
Private Meredith Bixby (Jerry Lewis) is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. ... more about Sad Sack
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.8478 out of 4 stars for Hollywood or Bust
1.8478
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. ... more about Hollywood or Bust
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.8272 out of 4 stars for Money from Home
1.8272
Matt and Dean are in trouble. Dean owes tons of gambling debts. To pay it off, he promises to fix a horse, so that it does not run. To do that, he intends to use his animal lover, veterenian apprentice cousin, Jerry to do this. ... more about Money from Home
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.7562 out of 4 stars for Family Jewels
1.7562
Nine-year-old Donna Peyton is orphaned when her father dies and leaves her with a $30 million fortune. ... more about Family Jewels
DVD from $3.76 
(3 sellers)
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.7554 out of 4 stars for Cookie
1.7554
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.7176 out of 4 stars for Don't Give Up the Ship
1.7176
John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Now years latter, no one knows where the ship is. He has a choice. ... more about Don't Give Up the Ship
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.5097 out of 4 stars for Three on a Couch
1.5097
An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. ... more about Three on a Couch
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.2858 out of 4 stars for Slapstick
1.2858
Actor Awards
Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.2747 out of 4 stars for Big Mouth
1.2747
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.2235 out of 4 stars for Boeing
1.2235
American playboy Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. ... more about Boeing
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 1.0803 out of 4 stars for Cracking Up
1.0803
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. ... more about Cracking Up
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for 3 Ring Circus
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Another movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown... ... more about 3 Ring Circus
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hook
0.0001
Man (Lewis) is told by his doctor (Lawford), and best friend, that he has a terminal illness. At his wife's urging, he lives life to the fullest, racking up insurmountable debts. ... more about Hook
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Pardners
0.0001
Martin and Lewis are sons of former ranch partners. Lewis, raised by his millionaire mother, follows visiting Martin back to the old West to learn how to be a cowboy. ... more about Pardners
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Raymie
0.0001
Raymie (David Ladd), an eight-year-old boy and an avid fisherman, dreams of catching a legendary giant barracuda know as Old Moe. ... more about Raymie
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rock-a-Bye Baby
0.0001
About the only thing kept in this film from Preston Sturges origianl story for "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" is a girl that gets drunk, gets married, gets pregnant and doesn't even remember any of it. ... more about Rock-a-Bye Baby
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special
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This salute (production number 3851) to 30 years of Screen Snapshots from Columbia Pictures features a full house of contract players from Paramount Pictures, leaving one to possibly presume that Columbia contractees Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, ... more about Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Way... Way Out
0.0001
The Americans and Russians each have a two-person base on the Moon The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid ... more about Way... Way Out
Not Available on DVD
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Jerry Lewis scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for You're Never Too Young
0.0001
Wilbur is a young man whose dream is to become a great barber, but for now, he's working just as an assistant, at a hotel's barber shop. ... more about You're Never Too Young
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Jerry Lewis
Birthdate:
March 16, 1926

Jerry Lewis

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1940s
1
total ranking of 1.2580  1.2580
1950s
22
total ranking of 2.4864  2.4864
1960s
18
total ranking of 2.6081  2.6081
1970s
1
total ranking of 0.9568  0.9568
1980s
9
total ranking of 1.6901  1.6901
1990s
3
total ranking of 2.1296  2.1296
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.7267
Jerry Lewis is ranked overall as 2.7267 of of 4 stars
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