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Jack Lemmon
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Actor Born: February 8, 1925 in Boston, MA Death: June 28, 2001 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:A private school-educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, "Jack Lemmon" burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in 2001. Whether through humor or pathos, he excelled at illuminating the struggles of average men against a callous world; as director "Billy Wilder" once noted, "There was a little bit of genius in everything he did."
Born in 1925, the son of a Boston doughnut company executive, Lemmon was educated at Phillips Andover Academy and taught himself to play piano as a teen. A budding thespian by the time he entered Harvard, he was elected president of the famed Hasty Pudding Club. After his college career was briefly interrupted by a stint in the Navy at the end of World War II, Lemmon graduated from Harvard and headed to New York to pursue acting. Supporting himself by playing piano in a bar... Full Biography
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