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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 June 2001, he died from cancer, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. Walter Matthau - his costar from several films - had also been buried at the cemetery.

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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