Head to headWalter Matthau against Jack Lemmon Both careers by TMDB ratingWalter MatthauJack Lemmon
Tale of the tape as an actor
Walter Matthau vs Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon averages 6.69 across 49 rated films as an actor, ahead of Walter Matthau at 6.55.
- 59 (47 rated)
- Films acted
- 59 (49 rated)
- 6.55
- Average
- 6.69▶
- 6.62
- Weighted
- 6.79▶
- Fail Safe 7.8
- Best film
- The Apartment 8.2▶
- 7.15, 1962 to 1965
- Peak five
- 7.20, 1991 to 1993▶
- 3 films
- Longest 7+ run
- 4 films▶
- 5.81 (−0.75)
- Current form
- 6.42 (−0.27)▶
- 15.9K
- TMDB votes
- 22.3K▶
- 1955 to 2000
- Career
- 1949 to 2000
- 1 win, 3 noms
- Oscars
- 2 wins, 8 noms▶
- ◀$1.14B
- Box office
- $909M
Rows won
1 to 8
Jack Lemmon ahead
Films together
12
averaging 6.67
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
 The Fortune Cookie | 1966 | 7.2 | as Harry Hinkle | as Willie Gingrich |
 The Odd Couple | 1968 | 7.4 | as Felix Ungar | as Oscar Madison |
 Kotch | 1971 | 6.6 | Director, as Sleeping Bus Passenger (uncredited) | as Joseph P. Kotcher |
 The Front Page | 1974 | 7.3 | as Hildebrand Johnson | as Walter Burns |
 Buddy Buddy | 1981 | 6.1 | as Victor Clooney | as Trabucco |
| Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder | 1982 | · | as Self | as Self |
 JFK | 1991 | 7.6 | as Jack Martin | as Senator Long |
 Grumpy Old Men | 1993 | 6.7 | as John Gustafson | as Max Goldman |
 Grumpier Old Men | 1995 | 6.5 | as John Gustafson | as Max Goldman |
 The Grass Harp | 1996 | 5.9 | as Dr. Morris Ritz | as Judge Charlie Cool |
 Out to Sea | 1997 | 5.8 | as Herb | as Charlie |
 The Odd Couple II | 1998 | 6.3 | as Felix Ungar | as Oscar Madison |