Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Jack Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as 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 OutofTowners, The China Syndrome, Missing , Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925 in an elevator at NewtonWellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His paternal grandmother was from an Irish immigrant family. Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy and Harvard College , where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs and president of the Hasty Pudding Club as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.

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