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Born John Uhler Lemmon III in Boston, 1925. After becoming involved in amateur dramatics at Harvard, Lemmon endured a slow rise to fame, not featuring in a film until 1954. However, the next year he gave an Oscar-winning performance in Mister Roberts. In a long, varied and extremely auspicious career he was best known for comedies, often working with actor Walter Matthau or director Billy Wilder. He agreed to appear in drag in Wilder's Some Like It Hot in return for the lead in the director's follow-up, the equally marvellous The Apartment. Before his death in June 2001 he made a brilliant comeback as a desperate, washed-up salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross.
