Want to know the best Jack Lemmon movies? How about the worst Jack Lemmon movies? Curious about Jack Lemmon’s box office grosses or which Jack Lemmon movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jack Lemmon movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
John Uhler “Jack” Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was a two Academy Award® winning actor. Lemmon’s film debut was a uncredited bit part in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor but he was not noticed until his official debut in 1954’s It Should Happen To You.
Over the next 45 years, Lemmon would appear in numerous classic movies. Movies like Mister Roberts, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Day of Wine and Roses, The Great Race and The China Syndrome. Jack Lemmon received 8 Oscar® nominations for acting in his career.
He won twice, once as Best Supporting Actor in 1955’s Mister Roberts and once as Best Actor for 1973’s Save The Tiger. Lemmon also received an incredible 16 Golden Globe® nominations for his movie roles. So basically for every three movies Lemmon made, he would receive one nomination…..not a bad ratio.
His IMDb page shows 96 acting credits from 1949-2000. This page will rank 53 Jack Lemmon movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and bit parts were not included in the rankings.
Jack Lemmon Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Jack Lemmon Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Jack Lemmon movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Jack Lemmon movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Jack Lemmon movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Jack Lemmon movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Jack Lemmon movie received.
- Sort Jack Lemmon movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Jack Lemmon.
1. Jack Lemmon was born in an elevator.
2. His father was the president of a doughnut company.
2. Jack Lemmon graduated from Harvard University in 1947.
3. Lemmon taught himself to play the piano. He appears in numerous movies playing the piano.
4. Lemmon appeared in 7 movies directed by Billy Wilder. From 1959’s Some Like It Hot to 1991’s Buddy Buddy.
5. Lemmon made 12 movies with Walter Matthau. From 1965’s The Fortune Cookie to 1998’s The Odd Couple II. To see all 12 movies….just type in Walter in the search box…and they will all pop up.
6. Other roles Lemmon turned down over the years: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? , All That Jazz, Never So Few, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Hustler.
7. Lemmon was married twice. His son Chris Lemmon, was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone. His second wife was the actress Felicia Farr, with whom he had a daughter, Courtney and a step daughter Denise.
8. Lemmon directed one film in his lifetime…1971’s Kotch. Kotch starred his friend Walter Matthau, and earned Matthau an Oscar® nomination for Best Actor.
9. Lemmon passed away about one year after Matthua passed away. His gravestone simply reads “JACK LEMMON in”
10. Check out Jack Lemmon‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Way before my time, but it looks like he has some great movies and a ton of awards. I liked him in Glengary Glen Ross as well as all the Old Grumpy Men movies,
Hey JScott….he was way before your time….but it least he reached you with Glengary Glen Ross….a performance that should have gotten at least an Oscar nomination
A great page on a great actor. Keep it up pops
Thanks BryRog57
Jack Lemmon was a very good actor – China Syndrome was one of my favorite movies but he made so many good ones so it is hard to pick them all. Great facts and very interesting Cogerson.
Hey Bern1960…thanks for stopping by…..I am glad you like the Lemmon movie page…..The China Syndrome is a great movie….and still an important movie
I love Jack Lemmon, I was shocked to realize that he is already been gone 10 years, where does the time go. I remember clearly watching the China Syndrome at the theater and it was right when Three Mile Island was going on. It scared me to death. I think all the movies he made with Matthau are great. On your poll, I voted for Sidney Poiter, but I wondered where Matthau was on the poll. Great Lemmon movie page.
Hey KellyE1967….I have the same memories of Three Mile Island and The China Syndrome ….I am sure the producers of the movie could not believe their luck when Three Mile Island had their problems right as The China Syndrome was opening.
No pulse? That’s cool. A comical actor who gave us many laughs. The way he walked and talked actually made me laugh more. He had swagger like Jagger. A terrific tribute to a talented genius! Way to go cogerson! Enjoy your weekend! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Sunshine625….I wonder how many times Jack Lemmon and Jagger got compared to each other? Thanks for the compliment.