Did all of his own stunts for My Fellow Americans (1996).

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Best Actor (Play) Tony Award: in 1979, for "Tribute," a role he recreated in the film version of the same name, Tribute (1980); and in 1986, for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Jouney into Night."

His son, Chris Lemmon, appeared with him in Airport '77 (1977).

His performance as Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot (1959) is ranked #65 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Was good friends with Walter Matthau.

Holds the record for most Golden Globe nominations for acting, including both actors and actresses (22 total).

The only actor to be offered the role of George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) before Richard Burton was cast. He accepted the role and then quickly changed his mind the next day without offering any explanation.

During WW II, he served in the Naval Reserve and was the communications officer on the USS Lake Champlain.

His performance as Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot (1959) is ranked #29 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Ranked #47 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Daughter, Courtney Lemmon (b. 1966), with Felicia Farr.

Born at 2:00pm-EST.

Appeared on an episode of "The Simpsons" (1989), in which he convinced Marge to get into the pretzel business. Shelley Levene, his character from Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), was the inspiration for another Simpsons character, the usually jobless Gil, who Marge first met while working at a real estate firm.

His headstone reads "Jack Lemmon in".

During his early days as a contract player with Warner Brothers, studio head Jack Warner wanted Lemmon to change his screen name to "Jack Lennon." Warner feared that critics would make use of Lemmon's last name (i.e. "Jack Lemmon's performance in the film is a lemon."). Lemmon convinced Warner if he changed his name to "Lennon," everyone would think that he was related to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of Soviet Communism. (It was the 1950s, the time of the Red Scare, and years before the appearance of John Lennon and the Beatles.) Referring to Vladimir Lenin, Warner told Lemmon, "No, that's wrong. They pronounce his name 'Len-IN." "No," Lemmon replied, firmly. "It's pronounced 'LEN-in." After making a phone call to a Russian associate, who confirmed that Lenin's name was pronounced 'LEN-in,' Warner agreed to let Jack Lemmon keep his own name.

He and The China Syndrome (1979) co-stars Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda have all won Oscars for Leading Roles. Lemmon won for Save the Tiger (1973), Fonda won for Klute (1971), and Douglas won for Wall Street (1987).

He was voted the 45th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.

First actor to win two "Best Actor" Award at the Cannes Film Festival. (Dean Stockwell won twice at the festival before, but he had to share both of his awards with his co-stars)

Before any take he would say, "It's magic time."

Is a recipient of the Connor Award, an award given to someone who displays an excellence in the communicative arts, handed out by the brothers of the fraternity Phi Alpha Tau from Emerson College in Boston.

Appears in Mister Roberts (1955) with Henry Fonda, in which he takes over Fonda's position of Morale Officer when Fonda is transferred off the USS Reluctant. In 12 Angry Men (1997) (TV), Lemmon plays the same juror that Fonda played in the original.

He and Walter Matthau acted together in 10 movies: Buddy Buddy (1981), The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Front Page (1974), The Grass Harp (1995), Grumpier Old Men (1995), Grumpy Old Men (1993), JFK (1991), The Odd Couple II (1998), The Odd Couple (1968) and Out to Sea (1997). Lemmon also directed Matthau in Kotch (1971).

1947 graduate of Harvard University.

Best remembered by the public for his roles playing the average 9 to 5 office worker and opposite Walter Matthau.

Billy Wilder directed him in 7 movies: The Apartment (1960), Avanti! (1972), Buddy Buddy (1981), The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Front Page (1974), Irma la Douce (1963) and Some Like It Hot (1959).

Graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., in 1943.

Kevin Spacey dedicated his Oscar for American Beauty to Lemmon.

He was voted the 33rd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Starred opposite Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts (1955) in 1955 and opposite Henry's daughter, Jane Fonda, in The China Syndrome (1979) in 1979.

Owner of Jalem Productions, which co-produced many of his films as well as "Cool Hand Luke" starring Paul Newman.

Lemmon passed away four days shy of one year after his frequent co-star, Walter Matthau.

Son, Chris Lemmon, with Cynthia Stone.

A passionate but unskilled golfer who tried for 33 years to make the cut at Pebble Beach but didn't.

Father-in-law of Gina Raymond.

He studied with Uta Hagen, and considers her his prime early mentor.

He once had a flavor of ice cream named after him, ("Jack Lemmon" flavor); the eponymous treat was created, marketed and sold by Baskin & Robbins 31 Flavors. It was still being produced in the early 1980s but has since been discontinued and is not currently listed on the Baskin & Robbins website.

Was president of the Harvard Hasty Pudding Club.

Was born February 8, 1925, in an elevator at a Newton, Massachusetts, hospital.

Lemmon`s dad, a bakery executive, didn`t approve of his son taking up acting, but told him he should continue with it only as long as he felt passion for it, adding: "The day I don`t find romance in a loaf of bread..." His dying words to Jack were: "Spread a little sunshine."

In Harvard, he was in Navy ROTC and graduated with a degree in "War Service Sciences."

Since his middle initial was U., Jack had to deal with ribbing from kids who taunted him with: "Jack, u lemon."

Described his flamboyant, authoritarian mother as "Tallulah Bankhead on a road show." Laughs about how she used to hang out with her girlfriends at the Ritz Bar in Boston, and tried to have her cremation ashes, placed on the bar. (Management refused).

He was pleasantly shocked by Golden Globe-winner Ving Rhames in 1998 when Rhames called him up to the stage and all but gave him the award for Best Actor in TV Movie he had just won, to express his admiration to the veteran actor.

Lemmon admitted to having had a serious drinking problem at one time, which is one reason he looks back on his Oscar-winning role as Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger (1973) as perhaps the most gratifying, emotionally fulfilling performance of his career.

An accomplished, self-taught pianist, he wrote the theme for the movie Tribute (1980) and played jazz in a Bobby Short TV special.

US Navy Reserve 1945-1946