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 For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Raw

Saturday Night Live

The Mike Douglas Show

All Movies (120)

• Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet2025 · as Self (archive footage)
• From Darkness to Light2025 · as Self
• Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze2024 · as Self (Archival Footage)
• Remembering Gene Wilder2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Mystery Reel2022
• The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Rat Pack2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Dean Martin: King of Cool2021 · as Self
• Kreka: Dreamcatcher2021 · as Self
• Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome Stereo2020 · as Self
• What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael2019 · as Self
• Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me2017 · as Self
• Dying Laughing2017 · as Self
• Max Rose2016 · as Max Rose
• Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Trust2016 · as Jim's Father
• The Last Laugh2016 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Clown2016 · as Self
• The Story of... The Day the Clown Cried2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Inside Rupert Pupkin2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Till Luck Do Us Part 22013 · as Bellboy
• The Trials of Muhammad Ali2013 · as Self (archive footage)
• Close Up2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis2011 · as Self
• A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy2011 · as Self
• Pierre Étaix, un destin animé2011 · as Self
• Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!2009 · as Stationmaster (voice)
• The Nutty Professor2008 · as Professor Julius Kelp / Buddy Love
• Happy Birthday, Jerry Lewis2006 · as Self
• Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime2005 · as Self
• Hollywood Legenden2004 · as Self
• A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• Dean Martin: The One and Only2004 · as Self
• A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Edith Head: The Paramount Years2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender1997 · as Self (archive footage)
• Sports on the Silver Screen1997 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown1996 · as Self
• Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels1996 · as Self (archive footage)
• Funny Bones1995 · as George Fawkes
• Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey1995 · as Sidney L. Pythias (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Arizona Dream1993 · as Leo Sweetie
• Mr. Saturday Night1992 · as Jerry Lewis
• The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team1992 · as Self
• Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'1991 · as Self
• Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration1990 · as Self
• Cookie1989 · as Arnold Ross
• An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis1988 · as Self
• Fight for Life1987 · as Dr. Bernard Abrams
• Rickles... On the Loose1986 · as Self
• Classic Comedy Teams1986 · as Self (archive footage)
• How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave1984 · as Clovis Blaireau
• The Defective Detective1984 · as Jerry Logan
• Smorgasbord1983 · as Warren Nefron / Dr. Perks / Gangster / Speed Armeter
• The King of Comedy1982 · as Jerry Langford
• Slapstick of Another Kind1982 · as Wilbur Swain / Caleb Swain
• Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!1982 · as Self (archive footage)
• Rascal Dazzle1981 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Hardly Working1980 · as Bo Hooper
• Gay, Gay Hollywood1980 · as Self
• The Hollywood Clowns1979 · as Self (archive footage)
• NBC: The First Fifty Years1976 · as Self
• Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy1974 · as Self
• Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !1972 · as Self
• The Day the Clown Cried1972 · as Helmut Doork
• Medicine Ball Caravan1971 · as Self
• Which Way to the Front?1970 · as Brendan Byers III
• One More Time1970 · as Bandleader (voice)
• Hook, Line and Sinker1969 · as Peter J. Ingersoll / Fred Dobbs
• The Jack Benny Birthday Special1969 · as Self (uncredited)
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River1968 · as George Lester
• The Big Mouth1967 · as Gerald Clamson
• Way... Way Out1966 · as Pete Mattemore
• Three on a Couch1966 · as Christopher Pride / Warren / Ringo / Rutherford / Heather
• Boeing, Boeing1965 · as Robert Reed
• Red Line 70001965 · as Driver (uncredited)
• The Family Jewels1965 · as Willard Woodward / James Peyton / Everett Peyton / Julius Peyton / Eddie Peyton / Skylock Peyton / Bugs Peyton
• The Disorderly Orderly1964 · as Jerome Littlefield
• Soap Opera1964 · as Self in Commercial (archive footage)
• The Patsy1964 · as Stanley Belt
• Who's Minding the Store?1963 · as Norman Phiffer
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963 · as Driver Who Runs Over Hat (uncredited)
• The Nutty Professor1963 · as Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp
• It's Only Money1962 · as Lester March
• The Errand Boy1961 · as Morty S. Tashman
• The Ladies Man1961 · as Herbert H. Heebert / Mama Heebert
• Cinderfella1960 · as Cinderfella
• The Bellboy1960 · as Stanley / Jerry Lewis
• Visit to a Small Planet1960 · as Kreton
• Li'l Abner1959 · as Cameo / Itchy McGrathy
• The Jazz Singer1959 · as Joey Robin / Joey Rabinowitz
• Don't Give Up the Ship1959 · as John Paul Steckler I / John Paul Steckler IV / John Paul Steckler VII
• The Geisha Boy1958 · as Gilbert Wooley
• Rock-a-Bye Baby1958 · as Clayton Poole
• The Sad Sack1957 · as Private Meredith C. Bixby
• The Delicate Delinquent1957 · as Sidney L. Pythias
• Hollywood or Bust1956 · as Malcolm Smith
• Pardners1956 · as Wade Kingsley Jr. / Wade Kingsley Sr.
• Artists and Models1955 · as Eugene Fullstack
• You're Never Too Young1955 · as Wilbur Hoolick
• 3 Ring Circus1954 · as Jerry Hotchkiss
• Living It Up1954 · as Homer Flagg
• Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood1954
• Money from Home1953 · as Virgil Yokum
• The Caddy1953 · as Harvey Miller
• Scared Stiff1953 · as Myron Mertz
• Road to Bali1952 · as Woman in Lala's Dream (uncredited)
• Jumping Jacks1952 · as Hap Smith
• Sailor Beware1952 · as Melvin Jones
• Come Back Little Shiksa1952
• The Stooge1951 · as Ted Rogers
• That's My Boy1951 · as 'Junior' Jackson
• Fairfax Avenue1951
• At War with the Army1950 · as Alvin Korwin
• My Friend Irma Goes West1950 · as Seymour
• My Friend Irma1949 · as Seymour
• How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border1949

All TV Shows (66)

• Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy2024 · as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
• Marilyn Monroe, la célébrité à tout prix2022 · as Self - actor
• TV Story Superstar2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee2012 · as Self
• Joy Behar: Say Anything!2009
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Andrew Munch
• The View1997 · as Self
• E! True Hollywood Story1996 · as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• Raw1993 · as Jerry Lewis (archive footage)
• Mad About You1992 · as Freddy Statler
• Martin & Lewis: Their Golden Age of Comedy1992 · as Self
• The Simpsons1989 · as Professor John Frink, Sr. (voice)
• Téléthon1987 · as Self
• Wiseguy1987 · as Eli Sternberg
• Sacrée soirée1987 · as Self
• Sacrée soirée1987 · as Self (archive footage)
• Goldene Kamera1984 · as Self
• Bonjour Mr Lewis1983 · as Self (archive footage)
• Late Night with David Letterman1982 · as Self - Guest
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Pink Lady1980 · as Jerry Lewis
• Rire et sourire : Le Splendid1978 · as Le Zinzin d'Hollywood, Jerry chez les cinoques
• Please Turn the Page1977 · as Self
• Auf los geht's los1977 · as Self
• Donny & Marie1976 · as Self
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• Cher1975 · as Self - Guest
• Cher1975 · as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Tony Orlando and Dawn1974 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self (archive footage)
• Der große Preis1974 · as Self
• Klimbim1973 · as Self / Bobby Zischer
• Klimbim1973 · as Self
• The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour1971 · as Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel1971 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In1968 · as Self (uncredited)
• The Jerry Lewis Show1967 · as Self - Host
• The Carol Burnett Show1967 · as Self
• The Jerry Lewis Show1963 · as Self - Host
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self - Guest Host
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self - Co-Host
• Ben Casey1961 · as Dr. Dennis Green
• The Joey Bishop Show1961 · as Self (uncredited)
• Startime1959 · as Joey Rabinowitz / Joey Robin
• The David Susskind Show1959 · as Self
• The Music Shop1959
• Kraft Music Hall1958 · as Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar1957 · as Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar1957 · as Self - Guest Host
• The Steve Allen Show1956 · as Self - Guest
• The Steve Allen Show1956 · as Self - Cameo
• The Steve Allen Show1956 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• The Jack Benny Program1950 · as Lewis
• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self
• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self - Host
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self