Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, winning twice. He starred in over sixty films, such as Mister Roberts (1955, for which he won the year's Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), The Great Race (1965), The Odd Couple (1968, and its sequel The Odd Couple II (1998), both with frequent co-star Walter Matthau), Save the Tiger (1973, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), The China Syndrome (1979), Missing (1982), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987, for which he won a Golden Globe), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).