name	Ving Rhames
birth name	Irving Rameses Rhames
birth date	May 12, 1959
birth place	New York City, New York, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years active	1985–present
spouse	Deborah Reed (2000–present) Valerie Scott (1994–1999) (divorced) }}

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor best known for his work in ''Bringing Out the Dead'', ''Pulp Fiction'', ''Baby Boy'', ''Don King: Only in America'', and the ''Mission: Impossible'' film series.

Early life and education

Rhames was born in New York City, New York, the son of Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. His parents were raised as sharecroppers in South Carolina. Named after the late NBC journalist, Irving R. Levine, Irving Rhames grew up in Harlem.

A good student, he entered New York's School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. After high school, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase. His fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname "Ving". Rhames later transferred to Juilliard, where he began his career in New York theater.

Career

Rhames first appeared on Broadway in the play ''The Winter Boys'' in 1984. Ving continued his rise to fame through his work in soap operas. He found work as a supporting actor, and came to the attention of the general public by playing the role of Marsellus Wallace in ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994). Rhames also was getting public exposure on television as Peter Benton's brother-in-law on the medical drama ER, a recurring role he filled for 3 seasons. Not long after, Rhames was cast with Tom Cruise as the ace computer hacker Luther Stickell in Brian De Palma's ''Mission: Impossible'' (1996). With solid performances in two of these highly popular productions, his face was now known to moviegoers, and the work offers began rolling in more frequently. In 1997, Rhames portrayed the Character of Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones in the popular film ''Con Air''.

Rhames won a Golden Globe in 1998 for best actor in a TV miniseries for his performance in HBO's ''Don King: Only in America''. At the ceremony Rhames gave his award to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, saying ''"I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you."'' Lemmon was clearly touched by the gesture as was the celebrity audience who gave Lemmon a standing ovation. Lemmon, who tried unsuccessfully to give the award back to Rhames said it was ''"one of the sweetest moments I've ever known in my life."'' The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced later that they would have a duplicate award prepared for Rhames. That moment was #98 on E!'s 101 Awesome Moments in Entertainment. ''The New York Times'' lauded Rhames for the act, writing that in doing so he "demonstrated his capacity for abundant generosity".

But Gary Dauphin, writing in ''Vibe'', described Rhames' effort to give away his Golden Globe Award as "a grateful Negro happy to be invited to the party". Sacha Jenkins, in her 2002 book ''Ego Trip's big book of racism'', called it "Best Example of a Negro Thinking Awards Grow on Trees". Riché Richardson wrote in ''Black masculinity and the U.S. South: from Uncle Tom to gangsta'' (2007) that the Spike Lee 2000 movie ''Bamboozled'' alludes to the 1999 Golden Globes ceremony incident. Richardson writes that when the character "Delacroix" tries similarly to give his own award to his white liberal boss in the movie, he is both reflecting on the Golden Globes Award ceremony incident and epitomizing the submissive-to-white-people Uncle Tom stereotype.

Rhames contributed attention-grabbing performances in ''Striptease'' (1996 as the wisecracking bodyguard Shad), ''Bringing Out the Dead'' (1999), reprised his Luther Stickell role for ''Mission: Impossible II'' (2000), playing Johnnie Cochran in ''American Tragedy'' (2000), as the ex-con boyfriend of Jodie's mother in the John Singleton film Baby Boy, portraying a gay drag queen in the television movie ''Holiday Heart'', contributed his deep bass voice for the character of Cobra Bubbles in ''Lilo & Stitch'' (2002) and the subsequent TV series, and played a stoic cop fighting zombie hordes in ''Dawn of the Dead'' (2004) and the ''Day of the Dead'' 2008 "remake." Rhames has also appeared in a series of television commercials for RadioShack, usually performing with Vanessa L. Williams.

In March 2005, Rhames played the lead role on a new "Kojak" series, on the USA Network cable channel (and on ITV4 in the UK). The bald head, lollipops, and "Who loves ya, baby?" catchphrase remained intact, but little else remained from the Savalas original.

Rhames voiced the part of Tobias Jones in the computer game ''Driv3r''.

In 2006, Rhames reprised his role in ''Mission: Impossible III'', making him the only actor besides Tom Cruise to appear in all three ''Mission: Impossible'' films, and was announced that he would have a role in the Aquaman-based show ''Mercy Reef''. In the integrating of The WB and UPN for the new network, CW, ''Mercy Reef'' was not picked up. It is an early contender for a midseason replacement, but currently no plans to air the series have been announced. Rhames played a homosexual, possibly also homicidal, firefighter who comes out of the closet in ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry''. He narrates the BET television series ''American Gangster''.

In the 2008 film ''Saving God'' he played an ex-con who is released from prison a changed man looking to take over his father's former church congregation in a deteriorating neighborhood. Rhames also stars in ''Phantom Punch'', a biopic of boxer Sonny Liston released directly to DVD as well as ''The Tournament'' portraying a fighter out to win a no-rules tournament.

Rhames makes an appearance in Ludacris's song "Southern Gangstas" on his album ''Theater of the Mind''. Rappers Playaz Circle and Rick Ross are also featured on the track.

He is engaged in a lawsuit with the producer of a film titled ''Red Canvas''.

His next current release is movie is "Submission" with Ernie Reyes, Jr. and UFC lightweight contender Gray Maynard and Randy Couture.

Rhames has been linked with a possible appearance in the upcoming fourth installment of the ''Mission Impossible'' series of movies – scheduled for release in 2011.

Upcoming films include The River Sorrow, with Ray Liotta, and Soldiers of Fortune, with Sean Bean. Both have Rhames co-starring with Christian Slater as well. In 2010, Rhames starred in Piranha 3D as Deputy Fallon, and it is rumored that he will returned in the planned sequel. He also will appear as Deputy Fallon as a spin off character in the movie Shark Night 3D.

Filmography

''Patty Hearst (film) ''Casualties of War'' ''The Long Walk Home'' ''Flight of the Intruder'' ''Stop ''Blood in Blood Out'' ''Pulp Fiction'' ''Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning'' ''Mission: Impossible (film) ''Dangerous Ground'' ''Body Count'' ''Entrapment (film) ''Mission: Impossible II'' ''Baby Boy (film) ''Sins of the Father (film) ''Stitch ''Dawn of the Dead (2004 film) ''Back in the Day (film) ''Aquaman (TV program) ''Football Wives'' ''A Broken Life'' ''Echelon Conspiracy'' ''Rogue's Gallery (film) ''Death Race 2''

style="background:#B0C4DE;"	Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	''Native Son''	Jack
1988	Patty Hearst'' ||	Cinque
1989	|	Lt. Reilly
rowspan=2>1990	|	Herbert Cotter
''Jacob's Ladder (film)	Jacob's Ladder''	George
rowspan=3	1991	|	CPO Frank McRae
''Homicide (1991 film)	Homicide''	Robert Randolph
''The People Under the Stairs''	Leroy
1992	Or My Mom Will Shoot''	Mr. Stereo
rowspan=3	1993	|	Ivan
''Dave (film)	Dave''	Duane Stevenson
''The Saint of Fort Washington''	Little Leroy
rowspan=2	1994	|	Marcellus Wallace
''Drop Squad''	Garvey
rowspan=3	1995	|	Detective Artie Brown	TV film
''Kiss of Death (1995 film)	Kiss of Death''	Omar
''Deadly Whispers''	Det. Jackson
rowspan=2	1996	Mission: Impossible'' ||	Luther Stickell
''Striptease (film)	Striptease''	Shad (bodyguard)
rowspan=4	1997	|	Muki
''Rosewood (film)	Rosewood''	Mann
''Con Air''	Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones
''Don King: Only in America''	Don King (boxing promoter)>Don King
rowspan=2	1998	|	Pike
''Out of Sight''	Buddy Bragg
rowspan=2	1999	Entrapment'' ||	Aaron Thibadeaux
''Bringing Out the Dead''	Marcus
rowspan=3	2000	|	Luther Stickell
''American Tragedy (film)	American Tragedy''	Johnnie Cochran
''Holiday Heart''	Holiday Heart
rowspan=2	2001	Baby Boy'' ||	Melvin
''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''	Ryan Whittaker
rowspan=6	2002	Sins of the Father'' ||	Garrick Jones	TV film
''Little John''	John Morgan
''Undisputed''	George "Iceman" Chambers
''Lilo & Stitch''	Cobra Bubbles
''RFK (film)	RFK''	Judge Jones
''Dark Blue (film)	Dark Blue''	Arthur Holland
rowspan=3	2003	The Movie''	Cobra Bubbles
''Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma''	Luther Stickel
''Sin''	Eddie Burns
rowspan=2	2004	Dawn of the Dead'' ||	Sgt. Kenneth Hall
''Driv3r''	Tobias Jones
rowspan=4	2005	Back in the Day'' ||	J-Bone
''Kojak (2005 TV series)	Kojak''	Theo Kojak
''Animal (2005 film)	Animal''	James "Animal" Allen
''Shooting Gallery (film)	Shooting Gallery''	Cue Ball Carl Bridgers
rowspan=3	2006	Aquaman'' ||	McCaffery	TV pilot
''Mission: Impossible III''	Luther Stickell
''Idlewild (film)	Idlewild''	Spats
rowspan=2	2007	|	Frank Wallingford	TV pilot
''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry''	Fred G. Duncan
rowspan=3	2008	|	Vet
''Day of the Dead (2008 film)	Day of the Dead''	Capt. Rhodes
''Saving God''	Armstrong Cane
rowspan=8	2009	|	Agent Dave Grant
''Phantom Punch (film)	Phantom Punch''	Sonny Liston
''The Bridge to Nowhere''	Drug-dealer Nate
''Evil Angel (film)	Evil Angel''	Carruthers
''The Tournament (film)	The Tournament''	Joshua Harlow
''The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard''	Jibby Newsome
''Surrogates (film)	Surrogates''	The Prophet
''Give 'Em Hell, Malone''	Boulder
rowspan=6	2010	Rogue's Gallery'' ||	Judgement
''Gravity (TV series)	Gravity''	Dogg McFee
''Caged Animal''	Miles "Cain" Skinner
''Master Harold...and the Boys (2010 film)	Master Harold...and the Boys''	Sam
''Piranha 3-D''	Deputy Fallon
''Red Canvas''<
rowspan=6>2011	|	Weyland
''Soldiers of Fortune (film)	Soldiers of Fortune''	Grimaud
''The River Sorrow''	Captain Langley
''Piranha 3DD''	Deputy Fallon
''Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol''	Luther Stickell

References

External links

Ving Rhames interview

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birth name	John Uhler Lemmon III
birth date	February 08, 1925
birth place	Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
death date	June 27, 2001
death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
alma mater	Harvard University
years active	1949–2000
occupation	Actor
spouse	Cynthia Stone (1950–1956; divorced; 1 child)Felicia Farr (1962–2001; his death; 1 child) }}

John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including ''Some Like It Hot'', ''The Apartment'', ''Mister Roberts'' (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), ''Days of Wine and Roses'', ''The Great Race'', ''Irma la Douce'', ''The Odd Couple'', ''Save the Tiger'' (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), ''The Out-of-Towners'', ''The China Syndrome'', ''Missing'' (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), ''Glengarry Glen Ross'', ''Grumpy Old Men'' and ''Grumpier Old Men''.

Early life

Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company. Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He later revealed that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947) where he lived in Adams House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs - becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club - as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. After Harvard, Lemmon joined the Navy, receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign. On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under Uta Hagen. He also became enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, organ, and the double bass.

Career

Lemmon's film debut was a bit part as a plasterer/painter in the 1949 film ''The Lady Takes a Sailor'' but he was not noticed until his official debut opposite Judy Holliday in the 1954 comedy ''It Should Happen to You''. Lemmon worked with many legendary leading ladies, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann Margret, Sophia Loren and many more. He was also close friends with Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau and Kevin Spacey. He made two films with Curtis, three films with Kovacs (''Operation Mad Ball'', ''Bell, Book, and Candle'', and ''It Happened to Jane''), and eleven with Matthau.

Early in Lemmon's career, Lemmon met Ernie Kovacs during the filming of ''Operation Mad Ball'' and co-starred with the comedian in this film. Lemmon and Kovacs became close friends and appeared together in two subsequent films - ''Bell, Book, and Candle''. and ''It Happened to Jane'' In 1977 PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs' television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series. Lemmon discussed his friendship with Kovacs in the documentary, ''Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius''.

He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films ''Some Like It Hot'', ''The Apartment'', ''Irma la Douce'', ''The Fortune Cookie'', ''Avanti!'', ''The Front Page'' and ''Buddy Buddy''. Wilder felt Lemmon had a natural tendency toward overacting that had to be tempered; the Wilder biography ''Nobody's Perfect'' quotes the director as saying, "Lemmon, I would describe him as a ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat". The biography also quotes Jack Lemmon as saying, "I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play... If my character was having a nervous breakdown, I started to have one".

He also had a longtime working relationship with director Blake Edwards, starring in ''My Sister Eileen'' (1955), ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), ''The Great Race'' (1965) and ''That's Life!'' (1986).

Lemmon recorded an album in 1958 while filming ''Some Like It Hot'' with Marilyn Monroe. Twelve jazz tracks were created for Lemmon and another twelve were added. Lemmon played the piano and recorded his own versions of Monroe's trademark songs, ''I Wanna Be Loved By You'' and ''I'm Through With Love'', for the album which was released in 1959 as ''A Twist of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot''.

Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for ''Mister Roberts'' (1955) and the Best Actor Oscar for ''Save the Tiger'' (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this double. He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ''Missing'' in 1982 and for his roles in ''Some Like it Hot'' (1959), ''The Apartment'' (1960), ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), ''The China Syndrome '' (1979), and ''Tribute'' (1980). In 1988, the American Film Institute gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award.

''Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962) was one of his favorite roles. He portrayed Joe Clay, a young, fun-loving alcoholic businessman. In that film, Lemmon delivered the line, "My name is Joe Clay ... I'm an alcoholic." Three and a half decades later, he admitted on the television program, ''Inside the Actors Studio'', that he was not acting when he delivered that line, that he really was a recovering alcoholic at the end of his life.

Lemmon's production company JML produced ''Cool Hand Luke'' in 1967. Paul Newman was grateful to Lemmon for his support and offered him the role later made famous by Robert Redford in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' but Lemmon turned it down. He did not like riding horses and he also felt he'd already played too many aspects of the Sundance Kid's character before.

Lemmon often appeared in films partnered with Walter Matthau. Among their pairings was 1968's ''The Odd Couple'', as Felix Ungar (Lemmon) and Oscar Madison (Matthau). They also starred together in ''The Fortune Cookie'' (for which Matthau won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), ''The Front Page'' and ''Buddy Buddy''. In 1971, Lemmon directed Matthau in the comedy ''Kotch''. It was the only movie that Lemmon ever directed and Matthau was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance.

Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, ''JFK'' (the only film in which both appeared without sharing screen time). In 1993, the duo teamed up again to star in ''Grumpy Old Men''. The film was a surprise hit, earning the two actors a new generation of young fans. During the rest of the decade, they would go on to star together in ''Out to Sea'', ''Grumpier Old Men'' and the widely panned ''The Odd Couple II''.

Lemmon starred in ''Some Like it Hot'', for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1982, he won another Cannes award for his performance in ''Missing'' (which received the Palme d'Or).

At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for "Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie" for his role in ''Twelve Angry Men'' losing to Ving Rhames. After accepting the award, Rhames asked Lemmon to come on stage and, in a move that stunned the audience, gave his award to him. (The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globes, decided to have a second award made and sent to Rhames.).

He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1988.

Personal life

Kevin Spacey recalled that Lemmon is remembered as always making time for other people. When already regarded as a legend, he met the teenage Spacey backstage after a theater performance and spoke to him about pursuing an acting career. Spacey would later work with Lemmon in ''Dad'' (1989), the critically acclaimed film ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1992) and on stage in a revival of ''Long Day's Journey Into Night''. Lemmon's performance also inspired Gil Gunderson, a character on The Simpsons that is modeled on Lemmon's.

Lemmon was married twice. His son Chris Lemmon (b. 1954), was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone (b. February 26, 1926, Peoria, Illinois, d. December 26, 1988). His second wife was the actress Felicia Farr, with whom he had a daughter, Courtney (b.1966).

Lemmon admitted that he was an alcoholic in the late 1960s. (Source: Los Angeles Tomes Obituary.)

Felicia Farr had another daughter from a previous relationship (her marriage to Lee Farr) called Denise, who would become Lemmon's stepdaughter.

Death

Jack Lemmon died of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder on June 27, 2001. He had been fighting the disease, very privately, for two years before his death. He was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California where he is buried near his friend and co-star, Walter Matthau, who died almost exactly one year before Lemmon. In typical Jack Lemmon wit, his gravestone simply reads "JACK LEMMON in". After Matthau's death in 2000, Lemmon appeared with friends and relatives of the actor on a ''Larry King Live'' show in tribute. A year later, many of the same people appeared on the show again to pay tribute to Lemmon.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949	''''	Plasterer	Uncredited
1954	''It Should Happen to You''	Pete Sheppard
1954	''Phffft!''	Robert Tracey
1955	''Three for the Show''	Martin 'Marty' Stewart
1955		Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver	Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1955		Robert 'Bob' Baker
1955	''Hollywood Bronc Busters''	Himself
1956	''You Can't Run Away from It''	Peter Warne
1957		Tony
1957	''Operation Mad Ball''	Pvt. Hogan
1958		Frank Harris
1958		Nicky Holroyd
1959	''Some Like It Hot''	Jerry - 'Daphne'	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
1959	''It Happened to Jane''	George Denham
1960	''''	C.C. Baxter	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
1960	''Stowaway in the Sky''	Narrator	voice
1960		Himself	Cameo appearance as Daphne
1960	''''	Lt. Rip Crandall
1962	''''	William 'Bill' Gridley
1962		Joe Clay	San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best ActorNominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1963	''Irma la Douce''	Nestor Patou / Lord X	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1963	''Under the Yum Yum Tree''	Hogan	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1964	''Good Neighbor Sam''	Sam Bissel	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1965	''How to Murder Your Wife''	Stanley Ford	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1965	''''	Professor Fate / Prince Hapnick	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1966	''''	Harry Hinkle
1967		Harry Berlin
1968	''There Comes a Day''
1968	''''	Felix Ungar	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1969	''''	Howard Brubaker
1970	''''	George Kellerman	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1971	''Kotch''	Sleeping bus passenger	uncredited
1972	''''	Peter Edward Wilson
1972	''Avanti!''	Wendell Armbruster, Jr.	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1973	''Save the Tiger''	Harry Stoner	Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1974	''''	Narrator	voice
1974	''''	Hildy Johnson	David di Donatello for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1975	''Wednesday''	Jerry Murphy
1975	''''	Narrator
1975	''''	Mel Edison
1976	''Alex & the Gypsy''	Alexander Main
1977	''Airport '77''	Capt. Don Gallagher
1979	''''	Jack Godell	Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)David di Donatello for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1980		Scottie Templeton
1981	''Buddy Buddy''	Victor Clooney
1982		Ed Horman	Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1984		Father Tim Farley
1985		Robert Traven
1986		Harvey Fairchild	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1989		Jake Tremont	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1991		Jack Martin
1992	''Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy''	Himself	also archive footage
1992	''''	Himself
1992		Shelley Levene
1993	''Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman In Carver County''	Himself
1993	''Short Cuts''	Paul Finnigan	Golden Globe Award for Best Ensemble CastVolpi Cup
1993		John Gustafson	Nominated — American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture
1995	''''	Dr. Morris Ritz
1995	''Grumpier Old Men''	John Gustafson
1996		Max Mueller / Karl Luger
1996	''My Fellow Americans''	President Russell P. Kramer
1996		Marcellus
1997	''Out to Sea''	Herb Sullivan
1997	''Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's''	Himself
1998	''Puppies for Sale''	Pet Shop Owner
1998	''''	Felix Ungar
2000	''''	Narrator / Old Hardy Greaves	uncredited

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949–50	''That Wonderful Guy''	Harold
1950	''Toni Twin Time''	Host	Episode dated May 31, 1950
1951	''''	Celebrity Panelist	Ended after 5 episodes
1951–52	''''	Newlywed	in 'The Couple Next Door' sketches
1952	''Heaven for Betsy''	Pete Bell	September 30, 1952 to December 23, 1952
1954	''''	Surgeon	cancelled after a few weeks
1956	''''	John Wilkes Booth	February 11, 1956
1957	''What's My Line?''	Mystery Guest	November 3, 1957 Episode # 388, Season 9, Ep 10
1957–58	''Alcoa Theatre''	Henry CoyleSteve TylerWally MallLieutenant Tony CrawfordEdward King	Episode: "Disappearance"Episode: "Most Likely to Succeed"Episode: "Loudmouth"Episode: "The Days of November"Episode: "Souvenir"
1976	''''	Archie Rice
1987	''Long Day's Journey Into Night''	James Tyrone Sr.	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
1988	''''	Gov. John Slaton	Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a MovieNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
1992	''For Richer, for Poorer''	Aram Katourian
1993	''''	Robert	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
1994	''Wild West''	host
1996	''''	Bud Bailey
1997	''''	Frank Ormand	Voice role; Episode: "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
1997		Juror #8	Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a MovieNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1998	''''	Thomas Gerrin
1999		Henry Drummond	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie
1999		Morrie Schwartz	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a MovieScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television MovieNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

Discography

''A Twist of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot'' (1959)

Piano Selections from ''Irma La Douce'' (1963)

Piano and Vocals (1990)

''Peter and the Wolf'' (1991)

Songs and music from'' Some Like It Hot'' (2001)

Bibliography

References

External links

"The Films of Jack Lemmon", compilation of movie clips, 4 minutes

Actor Jack Lemmon dead at 76

Jack Lemmon at the Archive of American Television

Obituary in the Los Angeles Times

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:''For the actor with a similar name, see Christopher Collins.''

name	K.C. Collins
birthname	Kris Collins
birth place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
othername	Chris Collins }}

K.C. Collins, also known as Chris Collins, is a Canadian film, voice and television actor.

Collins was born in Toronto, Ontario but now lives in Los Angeles, California. He attended Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York on a baseball scholarship. He had a couple more options as in The University Of Hawaii and Florida State University but wanted to stay close to his grandmother who raised him. He left school to pursue an acting career.

Filmography

''Due South'' (1997) (TV series) - Jamal Martin

''Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science'' (1999) (TV series) - Adrian Kinkead

''Love Songs'' (1999) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Tom-Tom

''Mean Streak'' (1999) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Runner

''In Too Deep'' (1999) (as Chris Collins) - Lookout

''The Hoop Life'' (2000) (TV series) - Derek

''Cheaters'' (2000) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Kid with Walkman

''The Ride'' (2000) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - College Kid #2

''Seventeen Again'' (2000) (as Chris Collins) - Leo

''They Call Me Sirr'' (2001) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Damian

''Earth: Final Conflict'' (2001) (TV series) - R.J.

''Ruby's Bucket of Blood'' (2001) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Dugso

''Sins of the Father'' (2002) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Youth

''Our America'' (2002) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - James

''The Red Sneakers'' (2002) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Roscoe

''Doc'' (2001–2002) (TV series) - Billy

''Odyssey 5'' (2002) (TV series) - Chavo

''Paid in Full'' (2002) (as Chris Collins) - Kid #1

''Conviction'' (2002) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Bo

''Owning Mahowny'' (2003) (as Chris Collins) - Bernie

''Good Fences'' (2003) (TV) (as Chris Collins) - Pee-Pie - Age 15

''Crime Spree'' (2003) (as Chris Collins) - Lamar

''Bulletproof Monk'' (2003) (as Chris Collins) - Sax

''Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye'' (2003) (TV series) - Antwan

''Platinum'' (2003) (TV series) - Walter

''Soul Food'' (2003) (TV series) - Tobias

''Detention'' (2003) (as Chris Collins) - Hogie Hogarth

''Playmakers'' (2003) (TV series) - Ron Martin

''Tarzan'' (2003) (TV series) - Matt Flynn

''Street Time'' (2003) (TV series) - Rasheed

''1-800-Missing'' (2003) (TV series) - Dylan Hodder (1 episode, 2003)

''Blue Murder'' (2001–2004) (TV series) - Eric Addell

''Naughty or Nice'' (2004) (TV) - Bobby

''Blind Injustice'' (2005) (TV) - Esteban

''Kojak'' (2005) (TV series) - Jimmy Wiles

''Love Bites'' (2006) (TV series) - Bret

''Close to Home'' (2006) (TV series) - Austin Jackson

''Doomstown'' (2006) (TV) - Kevin 'Jedi' Barrows

''Animal 2'' (2007) - James, Jr.

''Poor Boy's Game'' (2007) - Charles Carvery

''Toronto Stories'' (2008) - Alton Morris

''Saving God'' (2008) - Mike

''The Summit'' (2008) (mini TV series) - Jale

''ZOS: Zone of Separation'' (2009) (mini TV series) - Private Delmore

''A Day in the Life'' (2009) - Mesmo

''Guns'' (2009) (mini TV series) - Derek Wilmot

''Lost Girl'' (2010-) - Hale

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