Jack Nicholson

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 overal
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Personal Info

Id

514

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

4

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-04-22

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York, USA

Also Known As

  • جاك نيكلسون
  • 杰克·尼科尔森
  • แจ็ก นิโคลสัน
  • ジャック・ニコルソン
  • 잭 니컬슨
  • John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson
  • John Joseph Nicholson
  • Jack Joseph Nicholson
  • Τζακ Τζόζεφ Νίκολσον
  • 잭 니콜슨
  • 傑克·尼克遜
  • جک نیکلسون
  • Джон Джозеф Николсон
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    Known For

    Mars Attacks!

    Mars Attacks

    Batman

    Batman

    A Few Good Men

    A Few Good M

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    One Flew Ove

    Prizzi's Honor

    Prizzi's Hon

    The Departed

    The Departed

    Easy Rider

    Easy Rider

    The Shining

    The Shining

    The Movie Orgy

    The Movie Or

    Chinatown

    Chinatown

    Wolf

    Wolf

    Hoffa

    Hoffa

    About Schmidt

    About Schmid

    As Good as It Gets

    As Good as I

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    The Postman

    Terms of Endearment

    Terms of End

    The Evening Star

    The Evening

    The Border

    The Border

    The Pledge

    The Pledge

    The Witches of Eastwick

    The Witches

    Tommy

    Tommy

    The Bucket List

    The Bucket L

    Something's Gotta Give

    Something's

    Blood and Wine

    Blood and Wi

    The Terror

    The Terror

    The Little Shop of Horrors

    The Little S

    Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

    Shelter from

    Anger Management

    Anger Manage

    The Two Jakes

    The Two Jake

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    Rudyard Kipl

    Broadcast News

    Broadcast Ne

    Hells Angels on Wheels

    Hells Angels

    Five Easy Pieces

    Five Easy Pi

    The Crossing Guard

    The Crossing

    Goin' South

    Goin' South

    The Passenger

    The Passenge

    Untold: Deal with the Devil

    Untold: Deal

    Heartburn

    Heartburn

    Ironweed

    Ironweed

    Carnal Knowledge

    Carnal Knowl

    The Raven

    The Raven

    The Missouri Breaks

    The Missouri

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    TVTV Looks a

    Rebel Rousers

    Rebel Rouser

    Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

    Paul McCartn

    The Shooting

    The Shooting

    Ensign Pulver

    Ensign Pulve

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    Mulholland D

    How Do You Know

    How Do You K

    The Last Detail

    The Last Det

    Ride in the Whirlwind

    Ride in the

    Back Door to Hell

    Back Door to

    The Last Tycoon

    The Last Tyc

    Psych-Out

    Psych-Out

    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

    On a Clear D

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    Close Up

    Man Trouble

    Man Trouble

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    Yoko Ono: Th

    Reds

    Reds

    Making 'The Shining'

    Making 'The

    The Fortune

    The Fortune

    The King of Marvin Gardens

    The King of

    A Safe Place

    A Safe Place

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    Creepy Class

    The Wild Ride

    The Wild Rid

    Corman's World

    Corman's Wor

    The Rolling Stones: Stripped

    The Rolling

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    Shirley Macl

    Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Roman Polans

    Cry Baby Killer

    Cry Baby Kil

    40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic

    40 Years of

    Studs Lonigan

    Studs Loniga

    Too Soon to Love

    Too Soon to

    The Broken Land

    The Broken L

    The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped

    The Rolling

    Head

    Head

    Flight to Fury

    Flight to Fu

    Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

    Clint Eastwo

    Barbra Streisand: One Voice

    Barbra Strei

    View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

    View from th

    The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

    The Visions

    On the tracks of a filmmaker

    On the track

    BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

    BBStory: An

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    Jack of Thre

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    Junket Whore

    Targets

    Targets

    I'm Still Here

    I'm Still He

    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    The St. Vale

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    Jack Nichols

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    Stardust

    Live Aid

    Live Aid

    Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

    Lost Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    Stanley Kubr

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    Drive, He Sa

    Notes on an American Film Director at Work

    Notes on an

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    America | A

    Joker: Put on a Happy Face

    Joker: Put o

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    Soul Searchi

    Drive, He Said

    Drive, He Sa

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    Velocity

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    Witness to '

    Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

    Walt Whitman

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    Shadows of t

    SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

    SNL50: The H

    The Hour of St. Francis

    The Hour of

    Little Amy

    Little Amy

    Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

    Jack Nichols

    Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

    Roman Polans

    The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015

    The Rolling

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    Films to Die

    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Easy Riders,

    Breakdown: 1975

    Breakdown: 1

    John Candy: I Like Me

    John Candy:

    The Making of '...And God Spoke'

    The Making o

    Kubrick by Kubrick

    Kubrick by K

    Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party

    Playboy: Pla

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    Breakdown: 1975

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    Films to Die For

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    2025

    John Candy: I Like Me

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    2025

    SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

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    2024

    Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

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    2022

    Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

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    2021

    Untold: Deal with the Devil

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    2020

    Kubrick by Kubrick

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2020

    Joker: Put on a Happy Face

    asSelf

    2020

    40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2017

    Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood

    asSelf

    2017

    The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015

    asSelf - Audience Member

    2012

    Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2012

    Close Up

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2011

    Corman's World

    asSelf - Actor

    2010

    How Do You Know

    asCharles Madison

    2010

    BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

    asSelf

    2010

    Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom

    asSelf

    2010

    America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

    asSelf

    2010

    Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'

    asSelf

    2010

    Stardust

    asSelf (uncredited)

    2010

    I'm Still Here

    asJack Nicholson

    2010

    Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos

    asSelf

    2008

    Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

    asSelf

    2008

    Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    asSelf / Jake Gittes (archive footage)

    2008

    Notes on an American Film Director at Work

    asSelf

    2007

    The Bucket List

    asEdward Periman Cole

    2007

    View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

    asSelf

    2007

    The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

    asSelf

    2007

    Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

    asSelf

    2006

    Witness to 'Reds'

    asSelf

    2006

    The Departed

    asCostello

    2005

    Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

    asSelf - Presenter

    2004

    Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

    asSelf(archive footage)

    2003

    Something's Gotta Give

    asHarry Sanborn

    2003

    Anger Management

    asDr. Buddy Rydell

    2003

    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    asSelf

    2002

    About Schmidt

    asWarren Schmidt

    2002

    Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

    asSelf

    2001

    America | A Tribute to Heroes

    asSelf

    2001

    Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    asSelf

    2001

    The Pledge

    asJerry Black

    1999

    Velocity

    asJohnny Varron (young) (archive footage)

    1999

    Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party

    as

    1998

    Junket Whore

    asSelf

    1997

    As Good as It Gets

    asMelvin Udall

    1996

    The Evening Star

    asGarrett Breedlove

    1996

    Mars Attacks!

    asPresident Dale / Art Land

    1996

    Blood and Wine

    asAlex

    1996

    Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

    asSelf (archive footage)

    1995

    The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped

    asSelf

    1995

    The Rolling Stones: Stripped

    asSelf

    1995

    The Crossing Guard

    asFreddy Gale

    1994

    The Making of '...And God Spoke'

    asSelf - Academy Awards (archive footage)

    1994

    Wolf

    asWill Randall

    1992

    Hoffa

    asJames R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa

    1992

    A Few Good Men

    asCol. Nathan R. Jessep

    1992

    Man Trouble

    asHarry Bliss

    1990

    The Two Jakes

    asJ.J. "Jake" Gittes

    1989

    Batman

    asJack Napier / The Joker

    1988

    On the tracks of a filmmaker

    asJack Nicholson

    1987

    Ironweed

    asFrancis Phelan

    1987

    Broadcast News

    asBill Rorich

    1987

    Creepy Classics

    asRexford Bedlo - (archive footage)

    1987

    Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump

    asNarrator (voice)

    1987

    The Witches of Eastwick

    asDaryl Van Horne

    1987

    Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

    asNarrator (voice)

    1986

    Barbra Streisand: One Voice

    asSelf - Audience Member (uncredited)

    1986

    The Elephant's Child

    asNarrator (voice)

    1986

    Heartburn

    asMark

    1985

    Live Aid

    asSelf

    1985

    Prizzi's Honor

    asCharley Partanna

    1983

    Terms of Endearment

    asGarrett Breedlove

    1982

    The Border

    asCharlie Smith

    1981

    Reds

    asEugene O'Neill

    1981

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    asFrank Chambers

    1980

    Making 'The Shining'

    asSelf

    1980

    The Shining

    asJack Torrance

    1978

    Goin' South

    asHenry Moon

    1976

    The Last Tycoon

    asBrimmer

    1976

    The Missouri Breaks

    asTom Logan

    1976

    TVTV Looks at the Oscars

    asSelf

    1975

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    asRandle Patrick McMurphy

    1975

    The Fortune

    asOscar 'Dix' Sullivan

    1975

    Tommy

    asThe Specialist

    1975

    The Passenger

    asDavid Locke

    1974

    Chinatown

    asJ.J. 'Jake' Gittes

    1973

    The Last Detail

    asBuddusky

    1972

    The King of Marvin Gardens

    asDavid Staebler

    1972

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    asSelf

    1971

    A Safe Place

    asMitch

    1971

    Carnal Knowledge

    asJonathan

    1971

    Drive, He Said

    asAnnoyed Bearded Guy

    1971

    Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

    asNarrator

    1970

    Five Easy Pieces

    asRobert Eroica Dupea

    1970

    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

    asTad Pringle

    1970

    Rebel Rousers

    asBunny

    1969

    Easy Rider

    asGeorge Hanson

    1968

    Head

    asSelf (uncredited)

    1968

    Targets

    asLt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited)

    1968

    Psych-Out

    asStoney

    1968

    The Movie Orgy

    asSelf (archive footage)

    1967

    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    asGino, Hit Man (uncredited)

    1967

    Hells Angels on Wheels

    asPoet

    1966

    Ride in the Whirlwind

    asWes

    1966

    The Shooting

    asBilly Spear

    1964

    Back Door to Hell

    asBurnett

    1964

    Flight to Fury

    asJay Wickham

    1964

    Ensign Pulver

    asYeoman Dolan

    1963

    The Terror

    asLt. Andre Duvalier

    1963

    The Raven

    asRexford Bedlo

    1962

    The Broken Land

    asWill

    1962

    The Hour of St. Francis

    asJim Evans

    1962

    Little Amy

    asJefferson City Coach

    1960

    Studs Lonigan

    asWeary Reilly

    1960

    The Wild Ride

    asJohnny Varron

    1960

    The Little Shop of Horrors

    asWilbur Force

    1960

    Too Soon to Love

    asBuddy

    1958

    Cry Baby Killer

    asJimmy Wallace

    Coming Soon

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