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Jack Lemmon

Jack Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001) was a consummate Hollywood actor.

Lemmon's father was a successful businessman in the Boston area. Lemmon attended Harvard.

Though divorced, he was a devoted father, and one of the best-liked actors in Hollywood.

Lemmon was a favorite of director Billy Wilder, and did a series of films with Wilder, including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, and Irma La Douce.

In 2001, he died suddenly during a battle with cancer, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Jack Lemmon films:

• Some Like It Hot, with Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis
• Glengarry Glen Ross, with Al Pacino, based on the play by David Mamet
• The Apartment
• The Odd Couple, with Walter Matthau
• Days of Wine and Roses
• The Fortune Cookie
• Save the Tiger
• The China Syndrome, with Jane Fonda
• The Out-of-Towners
• Dad, with Ted Danson
• Grumpy Old Men (and the sequel Grumpier Old Men), with Walter Matthau
• Missing, with Sissy Spacek
• My Fellow Americans, with James Garner

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