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.

He had been fighting the disease very privately for two years before his death. In typical Jack Lemmon wit his gravestone simply reads "JACK LEMMON IN ". ISBN 978-1-86105-510-1.

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.