Jerry Lewis
Acting·March 16, 1926·† August 20, 2017 — 91 years old·Newark, New Jersey, USA
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 For
The Simpsons
1989·8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999·8.0
The Nutty Professor
1996·5.6
The King of Comedy
1982·7.8
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000·5.0
Arizona Dream
1993·7.2
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963·7.0
The Trust
2016·5.2
Saturday Night Live
1975·6.9
The Nutty Professor
1963·6.5
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014·5.8
Raw
1993·6.8
Filmography · 187
2025Stella Stevens: The Last StarletSelf (archive footage)2025From Darkness to LightSelf2024Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and MozeSelf (Archival Footage)2024Stand-Up: The Laughing TherapyTVSelf - Comedian (archive footage)2024Remembering Gene WilderSelf (archive footage)2022Marilyn Monroe, la célébrité à tout prixTVSelf - actor2022Mystery Reel2022The Dark Side of a Hollywood IconSelf (archive footage)2022Rat PackSelf (archive footage)2021Dean Martin: King of CoolSelf2021Kreka: DreamcatcherSelf2020Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome StereoSelf2020TV Story SuperstarTVSelf (archive footage)2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline KaelSelf2017Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be MeSelf2017Dying LaughingSelf2016Max RoseMax Rose2016Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the ClownSelf (archive footage)2016The TrustJim's Father2016The Last LaughSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)2016The ClownSelf2016The Story of... The Day the Clown CriedSelf (archive footage)2014Inside Rupert PupkinSelf (archive footage)2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonTVSelf2013Till Luck Do Us Part 2Bellboy2013The Trials of Muhammad AliSelf (archive footage)2012Close UpSelf (archive footage)2012Comedians in Cars Getting CoffeeTVSelf2012Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn MonroeSelf (archive footage)2011Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and MagicSelf (archive footage)2011Method to the Madness of Jerry LewisSelf · Executive Producer2011A Tribute to Laurel & HardySelf2011Pierre Étaix, un destin animéSelf2009Joy Behar: Say Anything!TV2009Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!Stationmaster (voice)2008The Nutty ProfessorProfessor Julius Kelp / Buddy Love · Characters2006Happy Birthday, Jerry LewisSelf2006Jerry Lewis - König der KomödiantenSelf (archive footage)2005Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody SometimeSelf2004Hollywood LegendenSelf2004A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza MinnelliSelf (archive footage)2004Dean Martin: The One and OnlySelf2002A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'Self (archive footage)2002Edith Head: The Paramount YearsSelf (archive footage)2000Nutty Professor II: The KlumpsExecutive Producer · Characters1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitTVAndrew Munch1997The Silver Screen: Color Me LavenderSelf (archive footage)1997The ViewTVSelf1997Sports on the Silver ScreenSelf (archive footage)1996E! True Hollywood StoryTVSelf1996Jerry Lewis: The Last American ClownSelf1996The Nutty ProfessorExecutive Producer · Original Film Writer1996Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her HeelsSelf (archive footage)1995Funny BonesGeorge Fawkes1995Theremin: An Electronic OdysseySidney L. Pythias (archive footage) (uncredited)1994Inside the Actors StudioTVSelf1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienTVSelf - Guest1993RawTVJerry Lewis (archive footage)1993Arizona DreamLeo Sweetie1992Mr. Saturday NightJerry Lewis1992Mad About YouTVFreddy Statler1992BoyDirector · Writer1992The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy TeamSelf1992Martin & Lewis: Their Golden Age of ComedyTVSelf1992How Are The Kids?Writer · Director1991Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'Self1990Super ForceTVDirector1990Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary CelebrationSelf1989The SimpsonsTVProfessor John Frink, Sr. (voice)1989CookieArnold Ross1988An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry LewisSelf1987TéléthonTVSelf1987WiseguyTVEli Sternberg1987Sacrée soiréeTVSelf · Self (archive footage)1987Fight for LifeDr. Bernard Abrams1986Rickles... On the LooseSelf1986Classic Comedy TeamsSelf (archive footage)1984How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You LeaveClovis Blaireau1984BrothersTVDirector1984Goldene KameraTVSelf1984The Defective DetectiveJerry Logan1983Bonjour Mr LewisTVSelf (archive footage)1983SmorgasbordWarren Nefron / Dr. Perks / Gangster / Speed Armeter · Director · Writer1982The King of ComedyJerry Langford1982Slapstick of Another KindWilbur Swain / Caleb Swain1982Late Night with David LettermanTVSelf - Guest1982Champs-ElyséesTVSelf1982Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!Self (archive footage)1981Rascal DazzleSelf - Narrator (voice)1980Pink LadyTVJerry Lewis1980Hardly WorkingBo Hooper · Director · Screenplay1980Gay, Gay HollywoodSelf1979The Hollywood ClownsSelf (archive footage)1978Rire et sourire : Le SplendidTVLe Zinzin d'Hollywood, Jerry chez les cinoques1977Please Turn the PageTVSelf1977Auf los geht's losTVSelf1976NBC: The First Fifty YearsSelf1976Donny & MarieTVSelf1975Saturday Night LiveTVSelf - Host · Writer1975CherTVSelf - Guest · Self1975Les Rendez-vous du dimancheTVSelf1974Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. HardySelf1974Tony Orlando and DawnTVSelf1974Spécial cinémaTVSelf (archive footage)1974Der große PreisTVSelf1973KlimbimTVSelf / Bobby Zischer · Self1972Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !Self1972The Day the Clown CriedHelmut Doork · Director · Screenplay1971Medicine Ball CaravanSelf1971The Sonny & Cher Comedy HourTVSelf1971V.I.P. SchaukelTVSelf1970Which Way to the Front?Brendan Byers III · Director · Producer1970One More TimeBandleader (voice) · Director1969The Bold Ones: The New DoctorsTVDirector1969Hook, Line and SinkerPeter J. Ingersoll / Fred Dobbs · Producer1969The Jack Benny Birthday SpecialSelf (uncredited)1968Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the RiverGeorge Lester1968The Dick Cavett ShowTVSelf - Guest1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InTVSelf (uncredited)1967The Jerry Lewis ShowTVSelf - Host1967The Carol Burnett ShowTVSelf1967The Big MouthGerald Clamson · Screenplay · Producer · Director1966Way... Way OutPete Mattemore1966Three on a CouchChristopher Pride / Warren / Ringo / Rutherford / Heather · Director · Producer1965Boeing, BoeingRobert Reed1965Red Line 7000Driver (uncredited)1965The Family JewelsWillard Woodward / James Peyton / Everett Peyton / Julius Peyton / Eddie Peyton / Skylock Peyton / Bugs Peyton · Director · Writer · Producer1964The Disorderly OrderlyJerome Littlefield · Executive Producer1964Soap OperaSelf in Commercial (archive footage)1964The PatsyStanley Belt · Director · Writer1963Who's Minding the Store?Norman Phiffer1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldDriver Who Runs Over Hat (uncredited)1963The Jerry Lewis ShowTVSelf - Host1963The Nutty ProfessorProfessor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp · Director · Writer1962It's Only MoneyLester March1962The Merv Griffin ShowTVSelf1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonTVSelf - Guest Host · Self1961The Mike Douglas ShowTVSelf · Self - Co-Host1961The Errand BoyMorty S. Tashman · Director · Writer1961Ben CaseyTVDr. Dennis Green · Director1961The Joey Bishop ShowTVSelf (uncredited)1961The Ladies ManHerbert H. Heebert / Mama Heebert · Director · Writer · Producer1960CinderfellaCinderfella · Producer1960The BellboyStanley / Jerry Lewis · Director · Producer · Writer1960Visit to a Small PlanetKreton1959Li'l AbnerCameo / Itchy McGrathy1959The Jazz SingerJoey Robin / Joey Rabinowitz1959StartimeTVJoey Rabinowitz / Joey Robin1959Don't Give Up the ShipJohn Paul Steckler I / John Paul Steckler IV / John Paul Steckler VII1959The David Susskind ShowTVSelf1959The Music ShopTV1958The Geisha BoyGilbert Wooley · Producer1958Kraft Music HallTVSelf1958Rock-a-Bye BabyClayton Poole · Producer1957The Sad SackPrivate Meredith C. Bixby1957Tonight Starring Jack PaarTVSelf · Self - Guest Host1957The Delicate DelinquentSidney L. Pythias · Producer1956Hollywood or BustMalcolm Smith1956PardnersWade Kingsley Jr. / Wade Kingsley Sr.1956The Steve Allen ShowTVSelf - Guest · Self - Cameo · Self1956NightmareDirector1955Artists and ModelsEugene Fullstack1955You're Never Too YoungWilbur Hoolick19543 Ring CircusJerry Hotchkiss1954Living It UpHomer Flagg1954Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood1953Money from HomeVirgil Yokum1953The CaddyHarvey Miller1953Scared StiffMyron Mertz1953The OscarsTVSelf1952Road to BaliWoman in Lala's Dream (uncredited)1952Jumping JacksHap Smith1952Sailor BewareMelvin Jones1952An Eye for an EyeDirector of Photography1952Come Back Little ShiksaDirector1951The StoogeTed Rogers1951The Re-InforcerDirector · Screenplay · Producer · Director of Photography1951That's My Boy'Junior' Jackson1951Fairfax AvenueWriter · Cinematography · Director1950At War with the ArmyPrivate Korwin1950The Jack Benny ProgramTVLewis1950The Colgate Comedy HourTVSelf · Self - Host1950My Friend Irma Goes WestSeymour1950What's My Line?TVSelf1949My Friend IrmaSeymour1949How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the BorderWriter · Director1948The Ed Sullivan ShowTVSelf