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Jack Lemmon

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The Resume

    (February 8, 1925-June 27, 2001)
    Birth name was John Lemmon III
    Won the 1955 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Mister Roberts)
    Won the 1973 Oscar for Best Actor (Save the Tiger)
    Starred in 'The Odd Couple,' 'Irma La Douce,' 'Under the Yum Yum Tree,' 'The Fortune Cookie,' 'The Out of Towners,' 'Bell, Book and Candle,' 'How to Murder Your Wife,' 'Good Neighbor Sam,' 'Some Like it Hot,' 'The Player' and 'Grumpy Old Men'
    President of the Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard

Why he might be annoying:

    He won Harvard Lampoon's Worst actor of the year for the same role he won his Oscar for, in 'Save the Tiger' (1973).
    He was an alcoholic.
    While filming, he was stepped on by a horse and had to be taken to the hospital (1996).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was born in an elevator.
    He wrote a paper in Harvard about how bartenders save money by putting an olive in a martini and saving on alcohol.
    When a movie executive wanted to change his name from Lemmon to Lennon, he protested that Lennon sounded too much like Lenin and the public would brand him a communist.
    He was an ensign during World War II.
    He ranked #47, in Empire Magazine's Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time.
    When Ving Rhames won The Golden Globe, he called Jack Lemmon up and gave it to him (1998).
    When he won a Golden Globe, he quipped 'In the spirit of Ving Rhames, I'm going to give this award to Jack Lemmon (2000).'
    He is known as 'America's Everyman.'

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 106 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 85 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 96 Votes: 44.79% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 56 Votes: 53.57% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 20 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 51 Votes: 49.02% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 46 Votes: 36.96% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 161 Votes: 74.53% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 62 Votes: 41.94% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 232 Votes: 46.98% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 250 Votes: 36.00% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 132 Votes: 35.61% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 262 Votes: 44.27% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 1156 Votes: 39.62% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 473 Votes: 42.07% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 611 Votes: 41.90% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 1527 Votes: 43.22% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2872 Votes: 35.10% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 19285 Votes: 24.33% Annoying