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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).
Catalog of films (actor)
- 1954 : a woman who posts ( It Should Happen to You ), of George Cukor
- 1955: Permission to the paddle ( Mister Roberts ), of John Ford
- 1955: My sister is thunder ( My sister Eilleen ), of Richard Quine
- 1956: the Extravagant heiress ( You can' T run away from it ), of Dick Powell
- 1957: the Hell of the tropics ( Fire down below ), of Robert Parrish
- 1958: Cow-boy , of Delmer Daves
- 1958: Adorable neighbor ( Beautiful, book and candle ), of Richard Quine
- 1959: Some like it hot ( Some Like it Hot ), of Billy Wilder
- 1960: Pepe , of George Sidney
- 1960: Garçonnière ( The Apartment ), of Billy Wilder
- 1962: the Worrying lady in black ( The Notorious landlady ), of Richard Quine
- 1962: the Day of the wine and the pinks ( pink Days off wine and ), of Blake Edwards
- 1963: Irma soft (1963) the , of Billy Wilder
- 1964: Lends to me your husband ( Good neighbor Sam ), of David Swift
- 1965: How to kill your wife ( How to murder your wife ), of Richard Quine
- 1966: the Large one combines ( The Fortune cookie ), of Billy Wilder
- 1968: Funny of couple ( The odd couple ), of Gene Saks
- 1969: Madnesses of April ( April fools ), of Stuart Rosenberg
- 1970: Escapade in New York ( The Out-of-Towners ), of Arthur Hiller
- 1972: Avanti! , of Billy Wilder
- 1973: Save the tiger ( Save the tiger ), of John G. Avildsen
- 1974: the Prisoner of the second which occurred ( The Prisoner off Second Avenue ), of Melvin Frank
- 1974: Special first ( The Face page), of Billy Wilder
- 1976: Alex & the Gypsy , of John Korty
- 1976: Shipwrecked men of the 747 ( Airport 77 ), of Jerry Jameson
- 1979: the China syndrome ( The Clouded syndrome ), of James Bridges
- 1981: Buddy Buddy , of Billy Wilder
- 1982: Missing, reported missing ( Missing ), of Costa-Gavras
- 1985: Macaroni ( Macheroni ), of Ettore Scola
- 1986: That' S Life , of Blake Edwards
- 1989: My father ( Dad ), of Gary David Goldberg
- 1991: JFK , of Oliver Stone
- 1992: The Player , of Robert Altman
- 1992: Glengarry ( Glengarry Glen Ross ), of James Foley
- 1993: Luck, trust & ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country , of John Dorr
- 1993: Short Cuts , of Robert Altman
- 1993: the Grumpy ( Grumpy old men ), of Donald Kneaded
- 1995: Grumpy 2 ( Grumpier old men ), of Howard Deutch
- 1995: Fatty The harp , of Charles Matthau
- 1996: Hamlet , of Kenneth Branagh
- 1997: Off the Finely: The Last Days off Chasen' S , of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
- 1998: Funny of couple 2 ( Neil Simon' S The Odd Couples II ), of Howard Deutch
Catalog of films (realizer)
- 1971 : Kotch
Rewards
- Oscar of the best actor in a supporting role in 1956 for the role of Ensign Pulver in Permission to the paddle of John Ford
- Oscar of the best actor in 1974 for the role of Harry Stoner in Save the tiger John G. Avildsen.
- Price of male interpretation to the Cannes festival 1979 for the China syndrome of James Bridges
- Price of male interpretation to the Cannes festival 1982 for Reported missing
See too
External bonds
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Card IMDb
Simple: Jack Lemmon
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