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Article: Jack Lemmon - Unique comedy style.(Obituary)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2001
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Jack Lemmon, who died on Wednesday, aged 76, was educated at Harvard and began his film career with two stylish comedies and a musical with Betty Grable.
Then in 1955, he showed his unique comedy style as the hapless Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts, a role that won him an Oscar as supporting actor.
Throughout his career, and especially in films with Walter Matthau, Lemmon was often cast as the well-meaning fellow, a trifle square, who is taken advantage of by more forceful individuals.
In The Fortune Cookie, he is browbeaten into filing a false ...