Hollywood Remembers Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III was born in 1925 to a wealthy Boston family. His father was the president of a doughnut company. Young Jack went first to prep school then to Harvard, where he joined the drama society and developed an interest in acting.
His best performances are in Some Like it Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Irma La Douce (1963), Save the Tiger (1973) - for which he won the Oscar for best actor - The Odd Couple (1968), The China Syndrome (1979), Tribute (1980) and Missing (1982).
