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Jack Lemmon is an actor and an American realizer born the February 8th 1925 with Newton (Massachusetts, the United States) and deceased of the continuations of a cancer the June 27th 2001 with Los Angeles (California, the United States).

After a childhood in the Massachusetts and a passage to the Philips Academy then with the University of Harvard, Jack Lemmon engages in the navy during the Second world war.

As of its return to the the United States, he becomes a popular actor, specialized in the comedy. He is especially known in France for his collaborations with Billy Wilder, which offers to him the famous role of the gangster disguised at the sides of Tony Curtis and of Marilyn Monroe in Some like it hot in 1959, or that of the employee hand lantern in love with Shirley MacLaine in Garçonnière in 1960.

Lemmon obtained two Oscars: that of the best supporting role in 1956 for Permission to the paddle of John Ford and that of the better actor in 1974 for Save the tiger John G. Avildsen.

Distinguished and eclectic, the actor also privileged an independent, engaged cinema and militant as the two films testify some which were worth the to him Prix of male interpretation to the Cannes festival (only actor with Marcello Mastroianni to have succeeded doubled): the China syndrome of James Bridges (1979) and Reported missing from Costa-Gavras (1982).

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