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Birthdate: February 8, 1925
Death date: June 27, 2001
Jack Lemmon
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1950s
2.7896
13
1960s
2.7409
14
1970s
2.5055
14
1980s
2.0281
7
1990s
2.6151
15
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.3639
3.3639
Jack Lemmon Movie Rankings
1
3.6570Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time when they witness a murder by the mob. Now, to evade the gangsters the men dress up as women and join an all girl musical band. ...more about Some Like It Hot
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $4.55
(16 sellers)
2
3.2943A studio executive, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), is the person able to make films possible by reviewing pitches that are presented to him. When he rejects a writer’s work, the writer is upset and sends threatening postcards to Griffin. ...more about Player
DVD from $12.79
(9 sellers)
3
3.2375New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, begins investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Skeptical of the FBI's report Garrison presents a list of possible conspirators and motives, including Vice President Johnson. ...more about JFK
DVD from $1.45
(16 sellers)
4
3.2205
Times are tough in a New York office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest. ...more about Glengarry Glen Ross
Actor Awards
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
- Venice Film Festival - Best Actor
DVD from $9.10
(12 sellers)
5
3.1196
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. ...more about Short Cuts
DVD from $27.95
(9 sellers)
6
3.0877
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. ...more about China Syndrome
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- American Movie Awards - Best Actor
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $9.78
(13 sellers)
7
3.0733
Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. ...more about Hamlet
DVD from $18.26
(11 sellers)
8
2.9938
Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He'd do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in the "action". ...more about Mister Roberts
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $10.89
(13 sellers)
9
2.9710
Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He's discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. ...more about Apartment
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $10.65
(11 sellers)
10
2.9028
Gladys Glover has just lost her modelling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things -- like making a name for herself. ...more about It Should Happen to You
DVD from $5.99
(3 sellers)
11
2.8430
Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondant, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. ...more about Odd Couple
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
12
2.8085
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. ...more about Great Race
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $13.71
(11 sellers)
13
2.7887
Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. ...more about It Happened to Jane
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
14
2.7847
Boy (with drinking problem) meets girl (with addiction to chocolate). They fall in love, get married and have a beautiful baby girl. But the picture perfect family is anything but perfect. ...more about Days of Wine and Roses
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- San Sebastián International Film Festival - Best Actor
DVD from $8.68
(10 sellers)
15
2.7465
Naive, by the book French police officer Nester Patou, is transferred to the Red Light district. Upon witnessing what must be a brothel, he calls the station and organizes a raid, transporting all the 'ladies' to the jail. ...more about Irma la Douce
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $9.99
(13 sellers)
16
2.7338
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. ...more about Cowboy
DVD from $8.91
(10 sellers)
17
2.6973
The film takes place in about a day and a half in Harry Stoner's life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. ...more about Save the Tiger
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $3.95
(14 sellers)
18
2.6828
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. ...more about Fortune Cookie
DVD from $5.99
(14 sellers)
19
2.6544
Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, become reluctant allies when they become the target of a conspirator in President Haney's administration. ...more about My Fellow Americans
DVD from $6.38
(9 sellers)
20
2.5666
Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. ...more about Bell Book and Candle
DVD from $13.34
(11 sellers)
22
2.4042
After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. ...more about Grass Harp
DVD from $7.00
(12 sellers)
23
2.3676
Things don't seem to change much in Wabasha County: Max and John are still fighting after 35 years, Grandpa still drinks, smokes, and chases women , and nobody's been able to catch the fabled "Catfish Hunter", a gigantic catfish that actually smiles at ...more about Grumpier Old Men
Actor Awards
- American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
DVD from $1.45
(15 sellers)
24
2.3670
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman, this is the story of an American father of conservative background who comes to a South American country to search for his missing son, a journalist. ...more about Missing
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
25
2.3647
John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. ...more about Grumpy Old Men
DVD from $1.45
(15 sellers)
26
2.3312
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" - a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. ...more about Wackiest Ship in the Army
DVD from $10.23
(12 sellers)
27
2.3208
Harry (Jack Lemmon) is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. ...more about Luv
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.2816
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1930s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. ...more about Front Page
Actor Awards
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $8.11
(10 sellers)
29
2.2816
After eight years of marriage, Robert and Nina divorce. He takes up with his womanising Navy buddy Charlie Nelson while she looks to her interfering mother for guidance. ...more about Phffft!
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.2720
George Kellerman and his wife make a trip to New York, where he is about to take a new job. This journey turns out to be a trip to hell -- what can go wrong will go wrong. ...more about Out-of-Towners
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
31
2.1617
Joseph Kotcher, a retired traveling salesman, lives with his son Gerald and daughter-in-law Wilma in Los Angeles. ...more about Kotch
DVD from $6.62
(9 sellers)
32
2.1606
Wendell (Lemmon) goes to Italy to pick up his father's body after an automobile accident. ...more about Avanti!
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $7.65
(14 sellers)
33
2.1519
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.1334
A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his father may be dying and rushes home to his side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. ...more about Dad
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
35
2.1130
Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Gillian is awaiting the results of a throat biopsy. ...more about That's Life!
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.9255
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. ...more about Fire Down Below
DVD from $5.11
(2 sellers)
37
1.8511
In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. ...more about Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
DVD from $9.99
(6 sellers)
38
1.7851
It has been seventeen years now since Oscar and Felix saw each other for the last time. Oscar is living in Florida, Felix in New York. ...more about Odd Couple II
DVD from $6.39
(9 sellers)
39
1.7715
A luxury 747 carrying valuable art work is hijacked and lands in the ocean, submerged in shallow water. ...more about Airport '77
DVD from $12.79
(12 sellers)
40
1.7182
Care-free Charlie (Walter Matthau) cons his widower brother-in-law Herb (Jack Lemmon) into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. ...more about Out to Sea
DVD from $4.11
(12 sellers)
41
1.7021
Jack Lemmon is a happily unmarried man with all the creature comforts one could desire including a wonderful butler who takes care of all his material needs. ...more about How to Murder Your Wife
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
42
1.4875
Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco, who is on his way to rub out gangster Rudy "Disco" Gambola, set to testify against the mob. ...more about Buddy Buddy
- Not Available on DVD
43
1.3788
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
- Genie Awards - Best Performance by a Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
44
1.2830
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts. ...more about Luck
DVD from $25.57
(10 sellers)
45
1.2648
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor (Aykroyd) finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander (Lemmon), he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man. ...more about Getting Away with Murder
DVD from $1.45
(14 sellers)
48
1.0397
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment (such as it is!), but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. ...more about My Sister Eileen
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
49
0.8597
When William Gridley arrives from the US in London, he rents part of Carly Hardwicke's house from her and promptly begins to fall in love. ...more about Notorious Landlady
- Not Available on DVD
50
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. ...more about April Fools
- Not Available on DVD
55
Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put on a madcap dance to celebrate the closing of an Army surgical hospital in post WWII France while evading the stickler-for-details Captain Locke - and win the heart to the ...more about Operation Mad Ball
- Not Available on DVD
57
It's a busy day along the city sidewalks as an elderly pet-shop owner hangs a sign, "Puppies For Sale." Later, he's in his back room when he hears the shop bell jingle signaling a customer has entered. ...more about Puppies for Sale
- Not Available on DVD
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