John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger , The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing , Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men. Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company. Lemmon attended... John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He had stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight.
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| Birthdate: | February 8, 1925 |
| Birthplace: | Newton, Alabama |
| Date of death: | June 27, 2001 |
| Height: | 5' 9" |
| Education: | Harvard University, Phillips Academy |
| Also known as: | John Uhler Lemmon III, jack_lemmon, John Uhler Lemmon |