Jack LemmonFilmography

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his Read More

On Cukor

Synopsis: Film director George Cukor (1899-1983) gets the American Masters treatment in this documentary from the acclaimed PBS series. Few directors from Hollywood's Golden Age can match the list of Cukor's achievements, which included What Price Hollywood, David Copperfield, Camille, Holiday, The Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Walter Matthau - Diamond in the Rough

Actors: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Julie Harris, Ozzie Davis, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: When Walter Matthau died, America lost one of its warmest and most gifted actors. While starring opposite Jack Lemmon in hits like The Odd Couple or Grumpy Old Men, Matthau could always get a laugh just by smiling and flashing the world his sheepish grin. Though he struggled with personal problems Read More

The Directors: Robert Altman

Synopsis: One of America's most respected and acclaimed directors, Robert Altman has brought such cinematic masterpieces as Nashville, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and The Player to the silver screen. This video profile charts Altman's long and prolific career, featuring interviews with Glenn Close, Shelley Read More

Inherit the Wind

Actors: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: The celebrated stage drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the real-life Scopes trial in which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is filmed for the third time in this adaptation produced for the Showtime premium cable network. Jack Lemmon plays Read More

Frank Sinatra Memorial

Actors: Frank Sinatra

Synopsis: Family, friends, and associates recall "The Chairman of the Board" in this compilation video that salutes the world renowned, sometimes controversial singer and celebrity Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998). Born in Hoboken, NJ, Sinatra became one of the world's most admired all-around Read More

Forever Hollywood

Actors: Sharon Stone, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges, André De Toth

Synopsis: Chief film critic of Variety and director of the acclaimed Visions of Light (1993), Todd McCarthy spins this love letter to tinseltown. Funded in part by the city of Los Angeles, the film charts Hollywood's rapid evolution from a sleepy town to a gleaming center of glamour in the 1950s to its Read More

Tuesdays With Morrie

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz, Caroline Aaron, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: Detroit Free Press sports columnist Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria) has found success and popularity in his occupation, but emotionally and spiritually he is bankrupt. While watching television one night, he comes across an episode of the news showNightline and learns that his former university Read More

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

Synopsis: For fifty years, Chasen's restaurant and bar was the gathering place for Hollywood's elite, U.S. presidents and royalty. Famed for its paneled ambiance, world-class chili and its legendary Hobo Steak, it was where the rich and powerful were free to orchestrate complex deals, hash out conflicts or Read More

The Odd Couple II

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski, Barnard Hughes, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the Read More

The Long Way Home

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sarah Paulson

Synopsis: 75-year-old retired cabinetmaker Thomas Gerrin (Jack Lemmon) has been a widower for three years, during which time his well-meaning children have insisted upon treating him as a helpless invalid. Determined to prove that the spark of life still burns within him, Thomas impulsively cashes his most Read More

Out To Sea

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon, Gloria de Haven, Brent Spiner

Synopsis: A pair of grumpy old men hit the high seas in this comedy. Small-time con man Charlie (Walter Matthau) fast-talks his considerably more straight-laced friend Herb (Jack Lemmon) into joining him for a luxury cruise on an ocean liner headed to the Bahamas. Charlie tells Herb that the trip is free Read More

12 Angry Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Courtney Vance, George C. Scott, Mykelti Williamson, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Synopsis: A jury argues a case in a stuffy room on a hot summer's day. Eleven say "guilty!" But one holdout (Jack Lemmon) is convinced of the defendant's innocence and stubbornly argues "reasonable doubt." This tense courtroom drama is a remake of Sidney Lumet's 1957 favorite and was produced for the Read More

My Fellow Americans

Actors: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, John Heard, Everett McGill, Sela Ward

Synopsis: In this comedy, Russell P. Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner) are two former U.S. Presidents who sit on opposite sides of the political fence. Kramer is a stuffy Republican reluctant to part with a dollar, while Douglas is a left-leaning Democrat with an eye for the ladies. Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers

Synopsis: At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the first to preserve Shakespeare's entire text, uncut and unabridged. Moving the action into the 19th century, Branagh cast himself in the title role Read More

A Weekend in the Country

Actors: Faith Ford, Christine Lahti, Jack Lemmon, Richard Lewis, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: Rita Rudner was both co-writer and co-star of this multi-plotted romantic comedy, set in a bed and breakfast in the middle of Southern California's wine country. In the course of the film's 90 minutes, a number of curiously matched couples will find true romance -- and sometimes even true Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Jack Lemmon - America's Everyman

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Chris Lemmon, Billy Wilder, Garson Kanin, Delbert Mann

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon has mastered both stage and screen in his career with such hits as "The Odd Couple," "The Days of Wine and Roses," "The China Syndrome," "Save the Tiger" (for which he received an Oscar) and "Grumpy Old Men." He and Walter Matthau starred in numerous films together that were nearly Read More

The Grass Harp

Actors: Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, Nell Carter

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) finds himself living in a small town with two of his aunts, Dolly (Piper Laurie Read More

Getting Away with Murder

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: A well-meaning man discovers the downside of taking the law into your own hands in this black comedy. Jack Lambert (Dan Aykroyd) is a college ethics professor who lives next door to a kindly old man of German descent named Max Mueller (Jack Lemmon); Jack is also in love with an attractive doctor Read More

Grumpier Old Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: In this sequel to the surprise hit Grumpy Old Men, life goes on much as it usually does in Wabasha County, Minnesota, with the only notable differences being that John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are getting along all right (or at least to the extent that they're Read More

National Geographic: Jane Goodall - My Life with the Chimpanzees

Synopsis: Come meet some of Jane Goodall's favorites: David Graybeard, who has a fondness for bananas, Grandma Flo, who in caring for her baby chimps teaches Jane a trick or two, and a clever baby chimp who scoops up termites with grass blades. Features Goodall's conversations with her chimps, who taught Read More

Earth and the American Dream

Actors: Mel Gibson, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This exhaustive treatment of the roots of environmental destruction in the modern world has come in for scathing criticism from those spearheading the "environmental backlash" movement, which is composed largely of rabidly pro-corporate thinkers and those who take "pure" capitalism as their Read More

Grumpy Old Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota native who has been feuding with his neighbor Read More

Freedom to Hate: Anti-Semitism In Russia

Synopsis: Anti-Semitism has been present in Russia for many years, and with the nationalist movement known as Pamyat, this disturbing trend has seen a resurgence. Using a "patriotic" platform, its proponents have been fanning the fires of hatred at every opportunity. Observers call Pamyat a neo-fascist Read More

Short Cuts

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Synopsis: Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls Read More

The Wild West [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: A ten-part series of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson Read More

A Life in the Theater

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Matthew Broderick

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this adaptation of an early play by author David Mamet focuses on the backstage relationship between two actors: Robert, an aging veteran and John, a young greenhorn. The pair, who share a dressing room in a repertory theatre, work together over the course of Read More

The Wild West: Gunfighters

Synopsis: The star-studded series Wild West presents a look back at the most notorious of the new settlers in its second volume, Wild West: Gunfighters. Director Kieth Merrill pulled together some big names to stage this ten-hour documentary including narrator Jack Lemmon, and actors Graham Greene, Laurence Fishburne Read More

The Wild West: Settlers

Synopsis: Everything anyone wanted to know about the West is exposed in the ten-hour documentary Wild West. From outlaws to heroes, the story is composed of many small tales. Volume one is entitled Wild West: Settlers and disassembles the archetypes that construct the image of the West. Jack Lemmon narrates Read More

The Wild West: Chroniclers

The Wild West: Dreamers & Wayfarers

Synopsis: The Wild West is a comprehensive ten-hour documentary detailing the faces that populated the vast territory. From cowboys to townspeople, many folk seized the opportunity to start a new life west of the Mississippi. Volume four, The Wild West: Dreamers and Wayfarers/Chroniclers, talks about the Read More

The Wild West: Soldiers

Synopsis: The ten-hour series Wild West takes viewers from the battles on the Great Plains to the dusty streets of burgeoning towns. Volume three, Wild West: Soldiers, concentrates on the effects of American expansion on two different cultures. While the search for gold brought many settlers west, Native Read More

The Wild West: Indians

Synopsis: The ten-hour series Wild West takes viewers from the battles on the Great Plains to the dusty streets of burgeoning towns. Volume three, Wild West: Indians, concentrates on the effects of American expansion on two different cultures. While the search for gold brought many settlers west, Native Read More

The Wild West: Townspeople

Synopsis: The star-studded series Wild West presents a look back at the most notorious of the new settlers in its second volume, Wild West: Gunfighters and Townspeople. Director Keith W. Merrill pulled together some big names to stage this ten-hour documentary, including narrator Jack Lemmon and actors Read More

The Wild West: Cowboys

Synopsis: Everything you always wanted to know about the West is exposed in the ten-hour documentary Wild West. From outlaws to heroes, the story is composed of many small tales. Volume one is entitled Wild West: Cowboys and disassembles the archetypes that construct the image of the West. Part one focuses Read More

The Wild West: Searchers

Synopsis: Wild West is a ten-hour documentary which showcases the diverse groups that settled the American frontier. Volume five, Wild West: Searchers, explores the most adventurous of these groups, the explorers. Propelled into a hostile and foreign environment, these characters were driven by curiosity. Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Three

Synopsis: Produced by Monterey Home Video, Poetry Hall of Fame 3 is the third volume of a four-part video series hosted by actress Valerie Harper. Verse written by some of the world's most famous poets are recited by well-known performers who eloquently bring alive the poets' words of wisdom, joy, hope Read More

The Wild West: Mythmakers

Synopsis: Wild West is a ten-hour documentary that showcases the diverse groups that settled the American frontier. Volume five, Wild West: Mythmakers, profiles the creation of larger-than-life figures through popular literature. Annie Oakley and "Wild" Bill Hickok are just two examples of the East's Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Two

Synopsis: Produced by Monterey Home Video, Poetry Hall of Fame 2 is the second volume of a four-part video series hosted by actress Valerie Harper. Verse written by some of the world's most famous poets are recited by well-known performers who eloquently bring alive the poets' words of wisdom, joy, hope and Read More

Glengarry Glen Ross

Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

For Richer, for Poorer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Talia Shire, Jonathan Silverman, Joanna Gleason, Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy, a self-made man (Jack Lemmon) tries to teach is idle son (Jonathan Silverman) and greedy wife a lesson by giving away his hard-earned wealth. However, the plan doesn't go quite as smoothly as expected. Released on video under the title Father, Son and the Mistress. Read More

JFK

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been Read More

Remember Pearl Harbor

Synopsis: This program chronicles the events of December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and the event that brought America into World War II. The events of that day are chronicled here, effectively and dramatically bringing across the horror and heroism Read More

The Earth Day Special

Synopsis: A cast of celebrities gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. It is an entertaining special that points out the crisis state of our planet's environment. It provides scientific facts and detailed analysis. The show provides ways in which everyone can participate in saving the Read More

The Heritage Collection: A Quip with Yip and Friends

Synopsis: Enjoy this selection of light verse created by authors including e.e. cummings and read by Jack Lemmon, Fred Gwynne and George Plimpton. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dad

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: Looking like death warmed over, Jack Lemmon plays the aging father of Ted Danson. Always proud of being able to fend for himself, Lemmon despises being reliant upon others, but his enfeebled state does not allow him his old independence. For his part, Danson resents having to care for his dad as Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Gregory Peck - His Own Man

Synopsis: Gregory Peck narrates his film biography complete with movie clips and interviews with friends. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Long Day's Journey into Night

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Bethel Leslie, Kevin Spacey, Peter Gallagher, Jodie Lynne McClintock

Synopsis: Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1962, Eugene O'Neill's gloomy Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night is given a vibrant videotaped treatment by Jonathan Miller. Set on one hot August day and night in 1912, the story concerns the tragic Tyrone family (based, as any Read More

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Actors: Wendy J. Cooke, Peter Gallagher, Kevin Spacey, Richard Jordan, Jack Lemmon

Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Murder of Mary Phagan is an account of the real-life events fictionalized in the 1937 theatrical feature They Won't Forget. In 1913, Atlanta-area teenager Mary Phagan (Wendy J. Cooke) is found murdered. Although the evidence points to another suspect (who years later confessed Read More

That's Life!

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia, Jennifer Edwards

Synopsis: Blake Edwards co-wrote and directed this seriocomedy about a couple of rich and famous Malibuans forced to re-examine their lives and values during a weekend party celebrating the husband's 60th birthday. Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews star as Harvey and Gillian Fairchild. Harvey is a successful Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Billy Wilder

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Billy Wilder. Included are excerpts from the following: The Apartment, Some Like it Hot and Sunset Boulevard. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Bobby Short & Friends

Maccheroni

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli, Maria Luisa Santella

Synopsis: Ettore Scola directed this light comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Marcello Mastroianni that Scola calls "a story about two men who have reached the age where you look back and take stock." Lemmon plays business executive Robert Traven, who returns Naples for the first time since 1946, when he had Read More

Ken Murray's Shooting Stars

Synopsis: This entertaining video features a collection of celebrity home movies from stars like Gregory Peck and Jack Lemmon. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Debonair Dancers

Synopsis: This educational performance video features the elegant moves of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as taught to the mentally and physically disabled by John Soiu. This is a unique and upbeat rehabilitation and therapy effort. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures: Past, Present and Future Featurettes

Synopsis: Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are some of the trailers and coming attractions seen in movies like Airport 77, Futureworld, Alien and Doc Savage. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Mass Appeal

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning, Louise Latham

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars in Mass Appeal as a popular Los Angeles parish priest, who has retained the good will of his parishioners by cracking jokes and never taking a stand on crucial matters. Enter young seminarian Zeljko Ivanek, whose rebellious reputation threatens to earn him an expulsion. Lemmon is Read More

Track Two

Crew: Producer, Research, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Canadian documentary about the prejudice against gays and lesbians that culminated in the 1981 "Gay Bath Raids" (in a district called "Track Two" in police code), the aftermath of the police action was unexpected. When a shoe-shine boy was killed in 1977, word spread that he had been Read More

Missing

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman (John Shea), who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly Read More

Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius

Synopsis: Produced for public television, Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius has in the past 15 years become a mainstay of local PBS fund drives. Utilizing deftly chosen vignettes from Kovacs' best TV work, the film is at once a biography and a paean to this unique talent. The story of Kovacs' Read More

Buddy Buddy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets loose scatter-shot stingers at a wide range of pop-culture targets -- from sex clinics, to 60 Minutes, to movie references, to disco, to Betamax video recorders. Based on Read More

Tribute

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Robby Benson, Lee Remick, Kim Cattrall, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars in an Academy Award-nominated performance as Scottie Templeton, a Broadway press agent dying of cancer, in Bernard Slade's film adaptation of his Broadway play (in which Lemmon originated the role). Divorced from his wife Maggie (Lee Remick), Scottie leads a happy-go-lucky life Read More

Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man

Actors: Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's acerbic wit and indomitable talent shine through in this documentary by Annie Tresgot. Michel Ciment, the French critic, interviews Wilder about his life and movie-making, and Tresgot also brings in discussions with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Few directors have been as Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Jimmy Stewart

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of James Stewart. Included are excerpts from: It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Vertigo and others. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The China Syndrome

Actors: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power carried an extra jolt when a real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania occurred just weeks after the film opened. Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) is a TV reporter trying to advance from fluff pieces to harder Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Henry Fonda. Included are excerpts from: Jezebel, Young Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Roberts. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Airport '77

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

Alex and the Gypsy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Geneviève Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt

Synopsis: Alexander Main (Jack Lemmon) is a tired, middle-aged bail bondsman who hears from his former girlfriend Maritza (Genevieve Bujold) for the first time in quite a while. The news isn't good: Maritza is accused of the attempted murder of her abusive lover, and she hopes that Alex can get her out of Read More

The Entertainer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ray Bolger, Sada Thompson, Tyne Daly, Michael Cristofer

Synopsis: This Americanized remake of John Osborne's play changes the locale from a seedy British amusement pier to an equally seedy burlesque house in Santa Cruz, California. Jack Lemmon assumes the Laurence Olivier role as Archie Rice, a third-rate entertainer who's a failure but won't admit it. Selfishly Read More

The Front Page

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: This third film version of the 1928 Ben Hecht/Charlie MacArthur Broadway hit The Front Page was the first one permitted to utilize all the salty profanities in the original play. Director Billy Wilder cast his two favorite leading men, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, as ace reporter Hildy Johnson Read More

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley

Synopsis: A lesser but still entertaining Neil Simon work, The Prisoner of Second Avenue was adapted to film in 1974. Jack Lemmon takes over the role played on Broadway by Peter Falk: Mel is a New York-based advertising man who goes through hell when he loses his job. The gods seem to conspire against him Read More

Avanti!

Actors: Franco Acampora, Lino Coletta, Raffaele Mottola, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Gianfranco Barra

Synopsis: This enchanting yet dark romantic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as a pair of mismatched lovers helplessly drawn into a series of seemingly hopeless but humorous situations as in Lemmon's The Out-of -Towners two years earlier. Lemmon is Wendell Armbruster Jr., an overbearing American Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: John Ford

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of John Ford. Included are excerpts from: Stagecoach, Fort Apache and The Grapes of Wrath. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Save the Tiger

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton, Patricia Smith

Synopsis: Star Jack Lemmon was so eager to see Save the Tiger make it to the big screen that he waived his salary rather than have the film exceed its tiny budget. Lemmon portrays "the great American tragedy" as upwardly mobile garment manufacturer Harry Stoner, whose underhanded business tactics are Read More

The War Between Men and Women

Actors: Janya Brannt, Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Jr., Herb Edelman, Severn Darden

Synopsis: Loosely based on the life and work of cartoonist and essayist James Thurber, The War Between Men and Women stars Jack Lemmon as cartoonist Peter Wilson, who, while visiting an eye doctor for his failing vision, quite literally stumbles upon Terry Kozlenko (Barbara Harris), an attractive but Read More

Kotch

Crew: Director

Actors: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Ellen Geer

Synopsis: For his only directorial effort, Jack Lemmon selected his old friend and habitual co-star Walter Matthau to play the central character. Joseph P. "Kotch" Kotcher (Walter Matthau) is an irksome 72-year-old who lives with his son (Charles Aidman) and daughter-in-law (played by Lemmon's wife Felicia Farr Read More

The April Fools

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford). It is here that Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon), one of Gunther's employees, makes the acquaintance of the boss' lovely young trophy wife Catherine (Catherine Deneuve). Read More

The Out-of-Towners

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Milt Kamen, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Robert Nichols

Synopsis: Ohio businessman Jack Lemmon is offered a golden job opportunity; all he has to do is relocate himself and wife Sandy Dennis to New York City. What follows has led some critics to complain that playwright Neil Simon has written a "hate letter" to Manhattan. Within a 36 hour period, the couple (a) Read More

The Odd Couple

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner

Synopsis: Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of New York, toying with the idea of suicide, before gravitating to the apartment of his best friend, incorrigibly sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau Read More

Luv

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Elaine May, Nina Wayne, Eddie Mayehoff

Synopsis: Three friends play a game of musical chairs with their relationships in this quirky comedy based on the hit play by Murray Schisgal. Harry Berlin (Jack Lemmon) is a deeply depressed man who is convinced his life is going nowhere -- so much so that he has decided to kill himself by jumping off a Read More

The Fortune Cookie

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West

Synopsis: The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the movie's driving force is Oscar-winning Walter Matthau as gloriously underhanded lawyer "Whiplash" Willie Gingrich. CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is injured when he is Read More

How to Murder Your Wife

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor

Synopsis: George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge out of it -- provided you are of the male persuasion, that is. Jack Lemmon stars as Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist and a confirmed bachelor who shares a lavish Read More

The Great Race

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white wardrobe. Leslie's great rival, played by Jack Lemmon, is Professor Fate, a scowling, mustachioed, top-hatted, black-garbed villain. Long envious of Leslie's record-setting Read More

Good Neighbor Sam

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Michael Connors, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Disgusted by the smarminess of his 1963 vehicle Under the Yum Yum Tree, Jack Lemmon vowed that his next effort would be a wholesome family picture. Good Neighbor Sam is suitable for all ages, to be sure, but that doesn't stop producer-writer-director David Swift from injecting plenty of Read More

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars as Hogan, who lives a bachelor's dream as the manager of an apartment building that caters only to single women. Hogan likes to romance his tenants, and he sets his sights on a newcomer named Robin (Carol Lynley). Robin and her boyfriend David (Dean Jones) have moved in together Read More

Irma La Douce

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi, Sheryl Deauville

Synopsis: This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death. "Everything," exclaims the narrator, "that makes life worth living." Irma La Douce (Shirley MacClaine) is Paris' most prosperous prostitute. Wise, endearing, and compulsively clad in Read More

Hollywood and the Stars: Funny Men

Actors: Joseph Cotten

Days of Wine and Roses

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed Read More

The Notorious Landlady

Actors: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood

Synopsis: This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft and mayhem. After William lands in London to take up his new position and get settled in his new digs, he becomes Read More

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World War II. The place is somewhere in the Pacific and the not-so-good ship USS Echo, captained by the comic Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), has a very specific assignment. The Read More

The Apartment

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams, David Lewis

Synopsis: Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office worker who loans his tiny apartment to his philandering superiors for their romantic trysts. He runs into trouble when he finds himself sharing a Read More

Pepe

Actors: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalban, Vicki Trickett, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by George Sidney. Pepe is the same sort of impoverished stereotype Cantinflas made famous in several of his comedies; in this case he is a hired hand on a ranch who chases down a Read More

Voyage En Ballon

Actors: Maurice Baquet, André Gille, Pascal Lamorisse

Synopsis: Originally titled Le Voyage en Ballon, Stowaway in the Sky is a disarmingly simple French-made children's story. The plot is implicit in the title: A small child, fascinated by a lighter-than-air balloon, clambers aboard. The balloon takes flight, lifting the child upward to an amazing adventure. Read More

It Happened to Jane

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney

Synopsis: Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment, killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for someone's dinner. Jane Read More

Some Like It Hot

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien

Synopsis: The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male musicians so desperate to get a job that they disguise themselves as women and play with an all-girl band in gangster-dominated 1929 Chicago. In this Read More

Cowboy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, Brian Donlevy, Anna Kashfi, Dick York

Synopsis: The once-scandalous autobiography of Frank Harris was the source of the fascinating "adult" western Cowboy. Jack Lemmon plays Harris, who when first the audience meets him is a citified desk clerk in a frontier hotel. Harboring romantic notions of the West, Harris prevails upon hard-living Read More

Bell, Book and Candle

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: John Van Druten's stage comedy Bell Book and Candle starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on Broadway. The 1958 filmed version stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, fresh from their successful teaming in Hitchcock's Vertigo. Novak plays Gillian Holroyd, a genuine, bonafide witch. Falling in love with Read More

Operation Mad Ball

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Rooney, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this frantic service comedy, a group of bored-to-tears American GI's stationed at a medical facility in France would like nothing more than to have a big party to let off steam -- except for the possibility of having a big party with some of the nurses they work with. However, it seems that the Read More

Fire Down Below

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom, Bernard Lee, Bonar Colleano

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum star as Tony and Felix, co-owners of a tramp-steamer service in the West Indies. Threatening their friendship is itinerant trollop Irena (Rita Hayworth). Tony seethes with jealousy as Irena gravitates towards Felix, leading to a heated confrontation. Felix retaliates Read More

You Can't Run Away From It

Actors: June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Paul Gilbert, Jim Backus

Synopsis: You Can't Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra's Oscar-winning classic It Happened One Night, complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins when spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson) is literally kidnapped from the altar by her Read More

Three for the Show

Actors: Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon, Myron McCormick

Synopsis: Three for the Show is a musical remake of the 1940 comedy Too Many Husbands, which in turn was based on a play by Somerset Maugham. In her next-to-last film, Betty Grable plays Julie, a popular musical comedy stars whose husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is reported missing in action during WW2. After Read More

Mister Roberts

Actors: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer

Synopsis: Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister Roberts. Written and partially directed by Joshua Logan, the film stars Fonda as Lt. Doug Roberts, chief cargo officer of the supply ship "Reluctant." WW2 is in its last few Read More

My Sister Eileen

Actors: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake of the 1942 comedy of the same name. It is not, however, the film version of the 1949 Broadway musical Wonderful Town, which was also based on the 1942 film. Adapted from the short stories of Ruth McKinney, the film stars Betty Garrett as Read More

Phffft!

Actors: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak, Luella Gear

Synopsis: After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina and Robert Tracy (Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon) goes "phffft"! Upon receiving their divorce papers, Nina and Robert are certain that they'll remain friends, no matter how many new lovers they pick up along the way. Nina dallies briefly Read More

It Should Happen to You

Actors: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O'Shea, Vaughan Taylor

Synopsis: Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a world of good. She gets that publicity by renting a billboard in the middle of Manhattan, emblazoned with her name and photograph. As a result, Gladys is showered with Read More