Jack Lemmon (February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001)

I want to start off by saying that he was an incredible performer. This tribute is going to be much to small to truly do him any justice but I'm going to give it a shot... He was on Broadway and in 1949 he made his first film appearance. Some of his films include The Great Race, How to Murder Your Wife, The Odd Couple, It Happened to Jane, The China Syndrome, JFK, Grumpy Old Men, The Glass Harp, Grumpier Old Men, My Fellow Americans, Hamlet, Out to Sea, The Odd Couple II and The Legend of Bagger Vance... Between his first silver screen appearance in 1949 and his final in 2000 he appeared in more than sixty films, ten of them were with his good friend Walter Matthau... He made appearances in several made for television movies as well, some of the more notable being "12 Angry Men" and "Inherit the Wind." On television he spent the 1949-1950 season as the lead in the series "That Wonderful Guy." Other television appearances include "The Frances Langford-Don Ameche Show", "The Red Skelton Show", "The Steve Allen Show", "I've Got a Secret", "Toast of the Town", "Tonight Starring Jack Paar", "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show", "What's My Line?", "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Larry King Live", "The Philco Television Playhouse", "Suspense", "Studio One", "Robert Montgomery Presents", "Lux Video Theatre", "Campbell Playhouse" and "Playhouse 90." His final television role was as the voice of Frank Ormand in an episode of "The Simpsons" in 1997... The man had the perfect taste for comedy and he used his talents perfectly. He made me laugh many times and he will continue to for as long as there's a breath left in my body... In Memoriam Remembers: Jack Lemmon

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