Jerry Lewis

Born

3/16/1926

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Jerry Lewis

Biography

Jerry Lewis (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Known For96 Movies

The King of Comedy
1982
★7.8
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
★7.0
Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!
2009
★6.6
Arizona Dream
1993
★7.1
The Trust
2016
★5.2
The Nutty Professor
1963
★6.5
Artists and Models
1955
★6.7
Funny Bones
1995
★6.6
Sailor Beware
1952
★6.3
Boeing, Boeing
1965
★6.4
The Ladies Man
1961
★6.3
The Disorderly Orderly
1964
★6.3
The Geisha Boy
1958
★6.4
The Patsy
1964
★6.2
Who's Minding the Store?
1963
★6.9
Hollywood or Bust
1956
★6.2
The Bellboy
1960
★6.2
The Family Jewels
1965
★6.5
Living It Up
1954
★6.5
You're Never Too Young
1955
★6.6
Mr. Saturday Night
1992
★5.9
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012
★7.2
Money from Home
1953
★6.0
Close Up
2012
★9.5
Scared Stiff
1953
★6.5
From Darkness to Light
2025
★6.7
Cinderfella
1960
★6.1
Road to Bali
1952
★6.2
The Last Laugh
2016
★7.0
Rock-a-Bye Baby
1958
★6.8
Hook, Line and Sinker
1969
★4.4
The Caddy
1953
★6.4
Visit to a Small Planet
1960
★5.3
Which Way to the Front?
1970
★4.7
Pardners
1956
★6.7
The Big Mouth
1967
★5.3
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
★6.4
Way... Way Out
1966
★5.9
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
★7.2
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
★5.3
Dying Laughing
2017
★6.4
My Friend Irma Goes West
1950
★6.2
The Delicate Delinquent
1957
★6.4
The Errand Boy
1961
★6.2
It's Only Money
1962
★6.2
3 Ring Circus
1954
★5.6
The Stooge
1951
★6.7
An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis
1988
★10.0
My Friend Irma
1949
★6.8
The Nutty Professor
2008
★4.8
Red Line 7000
1965
★5.4
Rat Pack
2022
★9.0
Don't Give Up the Ship
1959
★6.4
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
★6.7
That's My Boy
1951
★5.9
Slapstick of Another Kind
1982
★3.1
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
1949
★8.0
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
★7.4
Smorgasbord
1983
★5.7
Cookie
1989
★5.6
One More Time
1970
★5.0
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1968
★6.7
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
2002
★9.0
Three on a Couch
1966
★5.4
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011
★5.6
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991
★8.0
The Sad Sack
1957
★5.7
How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave
1984
★5.8
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017
★6.9
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
1990
★8.7
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
★7.7
Rickles... On the Loose
1986
★7.0
The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team
1992
★9.0
Jumping Jacks
1952
★6.5
Max Rose
2016
★5.6
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
★6.0
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
2011
★7.5
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
2021
★10.0
At War with the Army
1950
★5.3
Fight for Life
1987
★6.0
The Day the Clown Cried
Unknown
★9.0
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
★9.0
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995
★5.8
Li'l Abner
1959
★6.2
The Defective Detective
1984
★7.3
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
2016
★6.9
Hardly Working
1980
★4.5
The Clown
2016
★8.0
Medicine Ball Caravan
1971
★7.3
Till Luck Do Us Part 2
2013
★5.8
Classic Comedy Teams
1986
★7.0
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
2011
★7.5
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
2013
★7.1
Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
2011
★5.7
Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
2005
★8.0
Rascal Dazzle
1981
★8.0