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.
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Acting History
2025
Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet as Self (archive footage)
2025From Darkness to Light as Self
2024Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2022Marilyn Monroe, La Célébrité à tout prix as Jerry Lewis
2022Mystery Reel
2022The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon as Himself (archive footage)
2022Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2021Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self
2021Kreka: Dreamcatcher as Self
2020Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome Stereo as Himself
2020TV Story Superstar as Self (archive footage)
2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
2017Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me as Self
2017Dying Laughing as Self
2016Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown as Self (archive footage)
2016Max Rose as Max Rose
2016The Trust as Jim's Father
2016The Last Laugh as Self
2016The Clown as Self
2016The Story of... The Day the Clown Cried as Self (archive footage)
2014Inside Rupert Pupkin as Self (archive footage)
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Till Luck Do Us Part 2 as Bellboy
2013The Trials of Muhammad Ali
2012Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee as Self
2012Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage)
2011Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic as Self (archive footage)
2011Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis as Self
2011A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy as Self
2011Pierre Étaix, un destin animé as Self
2009Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! as Stationmaster (voice)
2008The Nutty Professor as Professor Julius Kelp / Buddy Love
2006Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten as Self (archive footage)
2006Happy Birthday, Jerry Lewis as Self
2005Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime as Self
2004Los Angeles Plays Itself as Jerome Littlefield in The Disorderly Orderly (archive footage)
2004I Know A Riddle as (archive footage)
2004Hollywood Legenden as Self
2004Dean Martin: The One and Only as Self
2004A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
2002A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' as Self (archive footage)
2002Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage)
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Andrew Munch
1997The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
1997The View as Self
1997Sports on the Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
1996E! True Hollywood Story
1996Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown as Himself
1996Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)
1995Funny Bones as George Fawkes
1995Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey as Sidney L. Pythias (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Raw as Jerry Lewis (archive footage)
1993Arizona Dream as Leo Sweetie
1992Mad About You as Freddy Statler
1992Mr. Saturday Night as Himself
1992The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team as Self
1992Martin & Lewis: Their Golden Age of Comedy as Self
1991Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self
1990Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration as Self
1989The Simpsons as Professor John Frink, Sr. (voice)
1989Cookie as Arnold Ross
1988An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis
1987Téléthon as Self
1987Wiseguy
1987Sacrée Soirée as Self
1987Sacrée Soirée as Self (archive footage)
1987Fight for Life as Dr. Bernard Abrams
1986Rickles... On the Loose as Self
1986Classic Comedy Teams as Self (archive footage)
1984How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave as Clovis Blaireau
1984The Defective Detective as Jerry Logan
1984Goldene Kamera as Self
1983Bonjour Mr Lewis as Self (archive footage)
1983Smorgasbord as Warren Nefron / Dr. Perks / Gangster / Speed Armeter
1982The King of Comedy as Jerry Langford
1982Slapstick of Another Kind as Wilbur Swain / Caleb Swain
1982Champs-Elysées as Self
1982Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
1981Rascal Dazzle as Self - Narrator (voice)
1980Pink Lady as Jerry Lewis
1980Hardly Working as Bo Hooper
1980Gay, Gay Hollywood as Self
1979The Hollywood Clowns as Self (archive footage)
1978Rire et sourire : Le Splendid as Le Zinzin d'Hollywood, Jerry chez les cinoques
1977Please Turn the Page as Self
1977Auf los geht's los as Self
1976Donny & Marie as Self
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Cher as Self - Guest
1975Cher as Self
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy as Himself
1974Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
1974Spécial cinéma as Self (archive footage)
1974Der große Preis as Self
1973Klimbim as Self / Bobby Zischer
1973Klimbim as Self
1972Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! as Self
1972The Day the Clown Cried as Helmut Doork
1971Medicine Ball Caravan
1971The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
1970Which Way to the Front? as Brendan Byers III
1970One More Time as Bandleader (voice)
1969Hook, Line and Sinker as Peter J. Ingersoll / Fred Dobbs
1969The Jack Benny Birthday Special as Self (uncredited)
1968Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River as George Lester
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
1967The Jerry Lewis Show as Host
1967The Carol Burnett Show as Self
1967The Big Mouth as Gerald Clamson
1966Way... Way Out as Pete Mattemore
1966Three on a Couch as Christopher Pride / Warren / Ringo / Rutherford / Heather
1965Boeing, Boeing as Robert Reed
1965Red Line 7000 as Driver (uncredited)
1965The Family Jewels as Willard Woodward / James Peyton / Everett Peyton / Julius Peyton / Eddie Peyton / Skylock Peyton / Bugs Peyton
1964The Disorderly Orderly as Jerome Littlefield
1964Soap Opera as Himself (Archive footage)
1964The Patsy as Stanley Belt
1963Who's Minding the Store? as Norman Phiffer
1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Driver Who Runs Over Hat (uncredited)
1963The Jerry Lewis Show as Himself
1963The Nutty Professor as Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp
1962It's Only Money as Lester March
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self - Guest Host
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1961The Errand Boy as Morty S. Tashman
1961Ben Casey
1961The Joey Bishop Show as Self (uncredited)
1961The Ladies Man as Herbert H. Heebert / Mama Heebert
1960Cinderfella as Cinderfella
1960The Bellboy as Stanley / Jerry Lewis
1960Visit to a Small Planet as Kreton
1959Li'l Abner as Cameo / Itchy McGrathy
1959Don't Give Up the Ship as John Paul Steckler I / John Paul Steckler IV / John Paul Steckler VII
1959The David Susskind Show as Self
1959The Music Shop
1958The Geisha Boy as Gilbert Wooley
1958Kraft Music Hall as Self
1958Rock-a-Bye Baby as Clayton Poole
1957The Sad Sack as Private Meredith C. Bixby
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self - Guest Host
1957The Delicate Delinquent as Sidney L. Pythias
1956Hollywood or Bust as Malcolm Smith
1956Pardners as Wade Kingsley Jr. / Wade Kingsley Sr.
1956The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest
1956The Steve Allen Show as Self - Cameo
1956The Steve Allen Show as Self
1955Artists and Models as Eugene Fullstack
1955You're Never Too Young as Wilbur Hoolick
19543 Ring Circus as Jerry Hotchkiss
1954Living It Up as Homer Flagg
1954Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
1953Money from Home as Virgil Yokum
1953The Caddy as Harvey Miller
1953Scared Stiff as Myron Mertz
1953The Oscars as Self
1952Road to Bali as Woman in Lala's Dream (uncredited)
1952Jumping Jacks as Hap Smith
1952Sailor Beware as Melvin Jones
1952Come Back Little Shiksa
1951The Stooge as Ted Rogers
1951That's My Boy as 'Junior' Jackson
1951Fairfax Avenue
1950At War with the Army as Alvin Korwin
1950The Jack Benny Program as Self
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Host
1950My Friend Irma Goes West as Seymour
1950What's My Line? as Self
1950What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
1949My Friend Irma as Seymour
1949How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self