Name
Jack Nicholson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1937-04-22 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York, USA
Biography
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards 12 times, winning Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets, and Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four).
He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, Easy Rider, Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, Batman, A Few Good Men, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give, and The Departed.
Known For
The Departed
(16,797 Votes)
8.159
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate...
Relase Date : 4 Oct, 2006
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The Shining
(19,544 Votes)
8.2
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife...
Relase Date : 23 May, 1980
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(11,883 Votes)
8.404
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison....
Relase Date : 19 Nov, 1975
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How Do You Know
(1,083 Votes)
5.338
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds he...
Relase Date : 17 Dec, 2010
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A Few Good Men
(4,371 Votes)
7.6
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway...
Relase Date : 11 Dec, 1992
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The Bucket List
(4,263 Votes)
7.193
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds ap...
Relase Date : 25 Dec, 2007
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As Good as It Gets
(4,286 Votes)
7.398
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely fri...
Relase Date : 19 Dec, 1997
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Anger Management
(3,600 Votes)
6.159
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid business...
Relase Date : 11 Apr, 2003
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Easy Rider
(2,245 Votes)
7.046
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California an...
Relase Date : 26 Jun, 1969
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1996 Mars Attacks! as President Dale / Art Land
- 1989 Batman as Joker / Jack Napier
- 1992 A Few Good Men as Col. Nathan R. Jessep
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy
- 1985 Prizzi's Honor as Charley Partanna
- 2006 The Departed as Costello
- 1969 Easy Rider as George Hanson
- 1980 The Shining as Jack Torrance
- 1968 The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 Chinatown as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
- 1994 Wolf as Will Randall
- 1992 Hoffa as James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa
- 2002 About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt
- 1997 As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall
- 1981 The Postman Always Rings Twice as Frank Chambers
- 1983 Terms of Endearment as Garrett Breedlove
- 1996 The Evening Star as Garrett Breedlove
- 1982 The Border as Charlie Smith
- 2001 The Pledge as Jerry Black
- 1987 The Witches of Eastwick as Daryl Van Horne
- 1975 Tommy as The Specialist
- 2007 The Bucket List as Edward Periman Cole
- 2003 Something's Gotta Give as Harry Sanborn
- 1996 Blood and Wine as Alex
- 1963 The Terror as Lt. Andre Duvalier
- 1960 The Little Shop of Horrors as Wilbur Force
- 2005 Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
- 2003 Anger Management as Dr. Buddy Rydell
- 1990 The Two Jakes as J.J. "Jake" Gittes
- 1987 Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 Broadcast News as Bill Rorich
- 1967 Hells Angels on Wheels as Poet
- 1970 Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea
- 1995 The Crossing Guard as Freddy Gale
- 1978 Goin' South as Henry Moon
- 1975 The Passenger as David Locke
- 2021 Untold: Deal with the Devil as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 Heartburn as Mark
- 1987 Ironweed as Francis Phelan
- 1971 Carnal Knowledge as Jonathan
- 1963 The Raven as Rexford Bedlo
- 1976 The Missouri Breaks as Tom Logan
- 1976 TVTV Looks at the Oscars as Self
- 1970 Rebel Rousers as Bunny
- 2002 Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. as Self
- 1966 The Shooting as Billy Spear
- 1964 Ensign Pulver as Yeoman Dolan
- 2010 Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos as Self
- 2010 How Do You Know as Charles
- 1973 The Last Detail as Billy L. 'Badass' Buddusky
- 1966 Ride in the Whirlwind as Wes
- 1964 Back Door to Hell as Burnett
- 1976 The Last Tycoon as Brimmer
- 1968 Psych-Out as Stoney
- 1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever as Tad Pringle
- 2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 1992 Man Trouble as Harry Bliss
- 1972 Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here as Self
- 1981 Reds as Eugene O'Neill
- 1980 Making 'The Shining' as Self
- 1975 The Fortune as Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan
- 1972 The King of Marvin Gardens as David Staebler
- 1971 A Safe Place as Mitch
- 1987 Creepy Classics as Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage)
- 1960 The Wild Ride as Johnny Varron
- 2011 Corman's World as Self - Actor
- 1995 The Rolling Stones: Stripped as Self
- 1996 Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired as Self / Jake Gittes (archive footage)
- 1958 Cry Baby Killer as Jimmy Wallace
- 2020 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic as Self (archive footage)
- 1960 Studs Lonigan as Weary Reilly
- 1960 Too Soon to Love as Buddy
- 1962 The Broken Land as Will
- 1986 The Elephant's Child as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped as Self
- 1968 Head as Self (uncredited)
- 1964 Flight to Fury as Jay Wickham
- 2022 Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
- 2007 View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' as Self
- 2007 The Visions of Stanley Kubrick as Self
- 1988 On the tracks of a filmmaker as Jack Nicholson
- 2010 BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
- 2024 Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 Junket Whore as Self
- 2010 I'm Still Here as Jack Nicholson
- 1967 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre as Gino, Hit Man (uncredited)
- 2017 Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood as Self
- 2010 Stardust as Self (uncredited)
- 1985 Live Aid as Self
- 2007 Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick as Self
- 2001 Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film as Self
- 2010 Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom as Self
- 2010 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self
- 2008 Notes on an American Film Director at Work as Self
- 2001 America: A Tribute to Heroes as Self
- 2020 Joker: Put on a Happy Face as Self
- 2010 Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces' as Self
- 1971 Drive, He Said as Annoyed Bearded Guy
- 1999 Velocity as Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage)
- 2006 Witness to 'Reds' as Self
- 1987 Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump as Narrator (voice)
- 1971 Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age as Narrator
- 2008 Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight as Self
- 2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 1962 The Hour of St. Francis as Jim Evans
- 1962 Little Amy as Jefferson City Coach
- 2004 Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 as Self - Audience Member
- 2025 Films to Die For as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- 2025 Breakdown: 1975 as Self (The Passenger-archive footage)
- 2025 John Candy: I Like Me as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- 2020 Kubrick by Kubrick as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
- 2021 Morceaux de Cannes as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 Mansfield 66/67 as Self - Actor(archive footage)
- 2014 I Am Divine as Self (archive)
- 2008 Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson as Self
- 2024 Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 Playmate Pajama Party as self
- 2007 Making of Chinatown
- Soon Monty and the Movies as Self (archive footage)
- 2025 Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror as Self (archive photo)
- 1968 Targets as Lt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1997 Completely Cuckoo
- 1960 The Andy Griffith Show ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Garland
- 1959 Mr. Lucky ( 1 episode ) as Martin
- 1959 Hawaiian Eye ( 1 episode ) as Tony Morgan
- 1958 Sea Hunt ( 1 episode ) as John Stark
- 2003 Celebrities Uncensored ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1958 Bronco ( 1 episode ) as Bob Doolin
- 1955 Matinee Theater ( 1 episode ) as Musician's Son
- 1967 The Guns of Will Sonnett ( 1 episode ) as Tom Murdock
- 1953 The Oscars ( 10 episodes ) as Self
- 1978 The Kennedy Center Honors ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Basketball: A Love Story ( 2 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1960 The Barbara Stanwyck Show ( 1 episode ) as Bud
- 1960 The Andy Griffith Show ( 1 episode ) as Marvin Jenkins
- 1962 Little Amy ( 1 episode ) as Jefferson City Coach
- 1984 Goldene Kamera ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2002 Nudes in the News ( 1 episode ) as Warren Schmidt (archive footage)
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee / Presenter
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Nominee
- 1983 Not Necessarily the News ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 2 episodes ) as Self (uncredited)
- 1971 Film '72 ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1978 Ciné regards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Tim Burton: Life in the Line ( 4 episodes ) as Self (footage)
