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Jack Lemmon

Actor · 96 credits · 48 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Apartment (1960)

Frequent collaborators: Walter Matthau, Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Kevin Spacey

Best Jack Lemmon movies by genre

Movies (95 total, ranked by score)

  1. The Apartment

    1960 · ★ 8.2 (2,752 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    1

  2. Some Like It Hot

    1959 · ★ 8.1 (3,970 votes)

    Comedy, Romance, Crime

    2

  3. JFK

    1991 · ★ 7.6 (2,461 votes)

    Drama, Thriller, History

    3

  4. Glengarry Glen Ross

    1992 · ★ 7.3 (1,633 votes)

    Crime, Drama, Mystery

    4

  5. 12 Angry Men

    1997 · ★ 7.7 (465 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie

    5

  6. Short Cuts

    1993 · ★ 7.2 (695 votes)

    Drama, Comedy

    6

  7. Days of Wine and Roses

    1963 · ★ 7.5 (213 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    7

  8. Irma la Douce

    1963 · ★ 7.4 (482 votes)

    Romance, Comedy, Drama

    8

  9. The Front Page

    1974 · ★ 7.3 (388 votes)

    Comedy

    9

  10. Missing

    1982 · ★ 7.2 (433 votes)

    Drama, Mystery, Thriller

    10

  11. The Fortune Cookie

    1966 · ★ 7.2 (357 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Crime

    11

  12. The Great Race

    1965 · ★ 7.1 (374 votes)

    Comedy, Adventure, Action

    12

  13. The Odd Couple

    1968 · ★ 7.4 (656 votes)

    Comedy

    13

  14. Mister Roberts

    1955 · ★ 7.1 (178 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, War

    14

  15. Avanti!

    1972 · ★ 6.9 (272 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    15

  16. Grumpy Old Men

    1993 · ★ 6.7 (747 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    16

  17. The Legend of Bagger Vance

    2000 · ★ 6.6 (1,003 votes)

    Drama, Romance, Fantasy

    17

  18. The Out-of-Towners

    1970 · ★ 6.8 (145 votes)

    Comedy

    18

  19. Bell, Book and Candle

    1958 · ★ 6.6 (261 votes)

    Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

    19

  20. It Should Happen to You

    1954 · ★ 7.1 (72 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    20

  21. Save the Tiger

    1973 · ★ 6.6 (96 votes)

    Drama

    21

  22. Tuesdays with Morrie

    1999 · ★ 7.3 (40 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie

    22

  23. The Notorious Landlady

    1962 · ★ 6.8 (59 votes)

    Comedy, Mystery

    23

  24. How to Murder Your Wife

    1965 · ★ 6.3 (154 votes)

    Comedy

    24

  25. The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    1975 · ★ 6.7 (77 votes)

    Comedy

    25

  26. The Odd Couple II

    1998 · ★ 6.3 (151 votes)

    Adventure, Comedy

    26

  27. My Fellow Americans

    1996 · ★ 6.1 (181 votes)

    Comedy

    27

  28. My Sister Eileen

    1955 · ★ 6.6 (28 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    28

  29. Cowboy

    1958 · ★ 6.5 (74 votes)

    Western

    29

  30. Dad

    1989 · ★ 6.4 (110 votes)

    Drama

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.