Jerry Lewis
1926–2017 · American comedian, actor and film director
Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian. Known as "The King of Comedy", "The Total Filmmaker" and in France as "Le Roi du Crazy" across his seven-decade career, Lewis was regarded as one of the greatest comedians of the 20th century.
Jerry Lewis, in order
- 1949 How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (short film): directed, wrote
- 1949 My Friend Irma: acted · directed by George Marshall
- 1950 At War with the Army: acted · directed by Hal Walker
- 1950 My Friend Irma Goes West: acted · directed by Hal Walker
- 1950 The Milkman: acted · directed by Charles Barton
- 1951 That's My Boy: acted · directed by Hal Walker
- 1952 Jumping Jacks: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1952 Road to Bali: acted · directed by Hal Walker
- 1952 Sailor Beware: acted · directed by Hal Walker
- 1952 The Stooge: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1953 Money from Home: acted · directed by George Marshall
- 1953 Scared Stiff: acted · directed by George Marshall and Hal B. Wallis
- 1953 The Caddy: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1954 3 Ring Circus: acted · directed by Joseph Pevney
- 1954 Living It Up: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1955 Artists and Models: acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1955 You're Never Too Young: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1956 Hollywood or Bust: acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1956 Pardners: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1957 The Delicate Delinquent: produced, acted · directed by Don McGuire
- 1957 The Sad Sack: acted · directed by George Marshall
- 1958 Rock-A-Bye Baby: produced, acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1958 The Geisha Boy: produced, acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1959 Don't Give Up the Ship: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1959 Li'l Abner: acted · directed by Melvin Frank
- 1959 The Jazz Singer: acted · directed by Ralph Nelson
- 1960 Cinderfella: wrote, produced, acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1960 The Bellboy: directed, wrote, produced, acted
- 1960 Visit to a Small Planet: acted · directed by Norman Taurog
- 1961 The Errand Boy: directed, wrote, acted
- 1961 The Ladies Man: directed, wrote, produced, acted
- 1962 It's Only Money: acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: acted · directed by Stanley Kramer
- 1963 The Jerry Lewis Show (TV series): acted
- 1963 The Nutty Professor: directed, wrote, acted
- 1963 Who's Minding the Store?: acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1964 The Disorderly Orderly: acted · directed by Frank Tashlin
- 1964 The Patsy: directed, wrote, acted
- 1965 Boeing Boeing: acted · directed by John Rich
- 1965 Red Line 7000: acted · directed by Howard Hawks · critics 67%, audiences 32%
- 1965 The Family Jewels: directed, wrote, produced, acted
- 1966 MDA Show of Strength (TV series): created
- 1966 Three on a Couch: directed, produced, acted
- 1966 Way...Way Out: acted · directed by Gordon Douglas
- 1967 The Big Mouth: directed, wrote, produced, acted
- 1968 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River: acted · directed by Jerry Paris
- 1969 Hook, Line & Sinker: produced, acted · directed by George Marshall
- 1970 One More Time: directed
- 1970 Which Way to the Front?: directed, produced, acted
- 1975 Saturday Night Live (TV series): acted · directed by A. D. Miles and Adam McKay · audiences 63% · streaming on Peacock, Prime Video, fuboTV
- 1980 Hardly Working: directed, wrote, acted
- 1982 Slapstick of Another Kind: acted · directed by Steven Paul
- 1982 The King of Comedy: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 89%, audiences 90%
- 1983 Cracking Up: directed, wrote, acted
- 1984 Par Où T'es Rentré? On T'a Pas Vu Sortir: acted · directed by Philippe Clair
- 1984 Retenez Moi...Ou Je Fais Un Malheur: acted · directed by Michel Gérard
- 1984 Terror in the Aisles: acted · directed by Andrew J. Kuehn · critics 63%, audiences 51%
- 1987 Fight for Life (TV movie): acted · directed by Elliot Silverstein
- 1989 Cookie: acted · directed by Susan Seidelman
- 1992 Mr. Saturday Night: acted · directed by Billy Crystal
- 1993 Arizona Dream: acted · directed by Emir Kusturica
- 1995 Funny Bones: acted · directed by Peter Chelsom
- 1996 The Nutty Professor: wrote · directed by Tom Shadyac
- 2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps: wrote · directed by Peter Segal
- 2002 All the Love You Cannes!: acted · directed by Gabriel Friedman and Lloyd Kaufman · streaming on Plex, Fawesome, Tubi
- 2008 The Nutty Professor: produced, acted · directed by Logan McPherson and Paul Taylor
- 2013 Max Rose: acted · directed by Daniel Noah
- 2015 Trumbo: acted · directed by Jay Roach · critics 74%, audiences 79% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fandango at Home (free)
- 2016 Der Clown: acted · directed by Eric Friedler
- 2016 Dying Laughing: acted · directed by Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood
- 2016 The Trust: acted · directed by Alex Brewer and Ben Brewer · critics 61%, audiences 30%
- Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis (TV series): acted