Jack Lemmon Net Worth

Jack Lemmon's Quotes

• [accepting his award at the 2000 Golden Globes] In the spirit of Ving Rhames, I'm going to give this award to Jack Lemmon.
• If you think it's difficult to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
• The worst part about being me is when people want me to make them laugh.
• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

Interesting Facts about Jack Lemmon

1. An accomplished, self-taught pianist, he wrote the theme for the movie Tribute (1980) and played jazz in a Bobby Short TV special.
2. Ranked #47 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
3. His son, Chris Lemmon, appeared with him in Airport '77 (1977).
4. Became a father for the 1st time at age 29 when his 1st [now ex] wife Cynthia Stone gave birth to their son Christopher Boyd Lemmon [aka Chris Lemmon] on June 22, 1954.
5. Became a father for the 2nd time at age 40 when his 2nd wife Felicia Farr gave birth to their daughter Courtney Noelle Lemmon [aka Courtney Lemmon] on January 7, 1966.
6. Born at 2:00pm-EST.
7. Lemmon admitted to having had a serious drinking problem at one time, which is one reason he looked back on his Oscar-winning role as Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger (1973) as perhaps the most gratifying, emotionally fulfilling performance of his career.
8. He was pleasantly shocked by Golden Globe winner Ving Rhames in 1998 when Rhames called him up to the stage and actually gave him the award for Best Actor in a TV Movie, which he had just won, to express his admiration to the veteran actor.
9. Described his flamboyant, authoritarian mother as "Tallulah Bankhead on a road show." Laughed about how she used to hang out with her girlfriends at the Ritz Bar in Boston and how she tried to have her cremation ashes placed on the bar (the management refused).
10. Since his middle initial was U., he had to deal with ribbing from kids who taunted him with, "Jack, u lemon".
11. In Harvard, he was in Navy ROTC and graduated with a degree in "War Service Sciences."
12. He studied with Uta Hagen, and considers her his prime early mentor.
13. Lemmon's dad, a bakery executive, didn't approve of his son taking up acting, but told him he should continue with it only as long as he felt passion for it, adding: "The day I don't find romance in a loaf of bread..." His dying words to Jack were: "Spread a little sunshine."
14. Was born February 8, 1925, in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts.
15. 1947 graduate of Harvard University.
16. Lemmon passed away four days shy of one year after his frequent co-star, Walter Matthau.
17. Was president of the Harvard Hasty Pudding Club.
18. Graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, in 1943.
19. During WW II, he served in the Naval Reserve and was the communications officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain CV-39.
20. Before any take he would say, "It's magic time."