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 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1968
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2006
The Simpsons
2003
The Mike Douglas Show
1975
Raw
1993
Saturday Night Live
1983
The View
2003
The Merv Griffin Show
1965
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2003
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
What's My Line?
1954

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
192
Directing
29
Writing
20
Producing
18
Camera
5
Crew
1
2026
100 Years of the Idiot: A Jerry Lewis Centenary
2025
From Darkness to Light
as Self
2025
Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2022
The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Mystery Reel
2022
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
as Self - actor
2021
Dean Martin: King of Cool
as Self
2021
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
as Self
2021
TV Story Superstar
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome Stereo
as Self
2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
2018
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
as Self
2017
Dying Laughing
as Self
2017
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
as Self
2016
Max Rose
as Max Rose
2016
The Last Laugh
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
The Trust
as Jim's Father
2016
The Clown
as Self
2016
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
as Self (archive footage)
2016
The Story of... The Day the Clown Cried
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Inside Rupert Pupkin
as Self (archive footage)
2014
The Carsony Brothers – Von Simmering nach Las Vegas
as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2013
Till Luck Do Us Part 2
as Bellboy
2013
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
as Self
2011
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
as Self
2011
Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
as Self
2011
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!
as Stationmaster (voice)
2008
The Nutty Professor
as Professor Julius Kelp / Buddy Love
2006
Happy Birthday, Jerry Lewis
as Self
2006
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Andrew Munch
2005
Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
as Self
2005
Goldene Kamera
as Self
2004
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
2004
A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Dean Martin: The One and Only
as Self
2003
Cher: The Farewell Tour
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Simpsons
as Professor John Frink, Sr. (voice)
2003
The View
as Self
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2002
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1999
E! True Hollywood Story
as Self
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
as Self
1995
Funny Bones
as George Fawkes
1995
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
as Sidney L. Pythias (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Arizona Dream
as Leo Sweetie
1993
Mad About You
as Freddy Statler
1993
Raw
as Jerry Lewis (archive footage)
1992
Mr. Saturday Night
as Jerry Lewis
1992
The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team
as Self
1992
Martin & Lewis: Their Golden Age of Comedy
as Self
1992
Sacrée soirée
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
as Self
1990
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
1989
Cookie
as Arnold Ross
1989
Sacrée soirée
as Self
1988
An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis
as Self
1988
Wiseguy
as Eli Sternberg
1987
Fight for Life
as Dr. Bernard Abrams
1987
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1987
Téléthon
as Self
1986
Rickles... On the Loose
as Self
1986
Classic Comedy Teams
as Self (archive footage)
1984
How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave
as Clovis Blaireau
1984
The Defective Detective
as Jerry Logan
1983
Smorgasbord
as Warren Nefron / Dr. Perks / Gangster / Speed Armeter
1983
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1983
Bonjour Mr Lewis
as Self (archive footage)
1983
Auf los geht's los
as Self
1982
The King of Comedy
as Jerry Langford
1982
Slapstick of Another Kind
as Wilbur Swain / Caleb Swain
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
1982
Please Turn the Page
as Self
1982
Late Night with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
1981
Rascal Dazzle
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1981
Ciné regards
as Self
1980
Hardly Working
as Bo Hooper
1980
Gay, Gay Hollywood
as Self
1980
Pink Lady
as Jerry Lewis
1980
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1980
Der große Preis
as Self
1979
The Hollywood Clowns
as Self (archive footage)
1978
Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
as Le Zinzin d'Hollywood, Jerry chez les cinoques
1977
Spécial cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
1976
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self
1976
Donny & Marie
as Self
1976
Tony Orlando and Dawn
as Self
1975
Cher
as Self - Guest
1975
Cher
as Self
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1974
Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
as Self
1974
Klimbim
as Self / Bobby Zischer
1973
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
as Self
1973
Klimbim
as Self
1973
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1972
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
as Self
1972
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
Medicine Ball Caravan
as Self
1971
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1971
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self
1971
Kraft Music Hall
as Self
1970
Which Way to the Front?
as Brendan Byers III / Field Marshal Erik Kesselring
1970
One More Time
as Bandleader (voice)
1970
The Red Skelton Show
as Magician's Assistant-Silent Spot
1969
The Jack Benny Birthday Special
as Self (uncredited)
1969
Hook, Line and Sinker
as Peter J. Ingersoll / Fred Dobbs
1968
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
as George Lester
1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
1968
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self - Guest Host
1967
The Big Mouth
as Gerald Clamson
1967
The Jerry Lewis Show
as Self - Host
1966
Three on a Couch
as Christopher Pride / Warren / Ringo / Rutherford / Heather
1966
Way... Way Out
as Pete Mattemore
1965
Boeing, Boeing
as Robert Reed
1965
The Family Jewels
as Willard Woodward / James Peyton / Everett Peyton / Julius Peyton / Eddie Peyton / Skylock Peyton / Bugs Peyton
1965
Red Line 7000
as Driver (uncredited)
1965
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1965
The David Susskind Show
as Self
1965
Ben Casey
as Dr. Dennis Green
1964
The Patsy
as Stanley Belt
1964
The Disorderly Orderly
as Jerome Littlefield
1964
Soap Opera
as Self in Commercial (archive footage)
1964
The Joey Bishop Show
as Self (uncredited)
1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Driver Who Runs Over Hat (uncredited)
1963
Who's Minding the Store?
as Norman Phiffer
1963
The Nutty Professor
as Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp
1963
The Jerry Lewis Show
as Self - Host
1962
It's Only Money
as Lester March
1962
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self - Guest Host
1961
The Ladies Man
as Herbert H. Heebert / Mama Heebert
1961
The Errand Boy
as Morty S. Tashman
1961
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1960
The Bellboy
as Stanley / Jerry Lewis
1960
Cinderfella
as Cinderfella
1960
Visit to a Small Planet
as Kreton
1959
Li'l Abner
as Cameo / Itchy McGrathy
1959
Don't Give Up the Ship
as John Paul Steckler I / John Paul Steckler IV / John Paul Steckler VII
1959
The Jazz Singer
as Joey Robin / Joey Rabinowitz
1959
The Music Shop
1959
Startime
as Joey Rabinowitz / Joey Robin
1958
Rock-a-Bye Baby
as Clayton Poole
1958
The Geisha Boy
as Gilbert Wooley
1958
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Cameo
1957
The Sad Sack
as Private Meredith C. Bixby
1957
The Delicate Delinquent
as Sidney L. Pythias
1957
The Steve Allen Show
as Self
1956
Pardners
as Wade Kingsley Jr. / Wade Kingsley Sr.
1956
Hollywood or Bust
as Malcolm Smith
1956
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest
1956
The Oscars
as Self
1955
Artists and Models
as Eugene Fullstack
1955
You're Never Too Young
as Wilbur Hoolick
1954
3 Ring Circus
as Jerry Hotchkiss
1954
Living It Up
as Homer Flagg
1954
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
1954
The Jack Benny Program
as Lewis
1954
What's My Line?
as Self
1953
Scared Stiff
as Myron Mertz
1953
The Caddy
as Harvey Miller
1953
Money from Home
as Virgil Yokum
1953
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - Host
1952
Jumping Jacks
as Hap Smith
1952
Sailor Beware
as Melvin Jones
1952
Road to Bali
as Woman in Lala's Dream (uncredited)
1952
Come Back Little Shiksa
1951
That's My Boy
as 'Junior' Jackson
1951
The Stooge
as Ted Rogers
1951
Fairfax Avenue
1950
At War with the Army
as Private Korwin
1950
My Friend Irma Goes West
as Seymour
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1949
My Friend Irma
as Seymour
1949
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
The Day the Clown Cried
as Helmut Doork
A Suite at the Sands