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Jack Lemmon
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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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The poster for "Some Like It Hot" starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe, left, and Jack Lemmon were two of the stars in 1959's "Some Like It Hot."
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