Jack Nicholson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 22, 1937 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Credits
- 149
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 Shining
1980Movie
Jack Torrance
The Departed
2006Movie
Costello
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975Movie
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Batman
1989Movie
Joker / Jack Napier
Mars Attacks!
1996Movie
President Dale / Art Land
Chinatown
1974Movie
J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
2025Movie
Self (The Passenger-archive footage)
Films to Die For
2025Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2025TV
Self (footage)
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
2025Movie
Self (archive photo)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025Movie
Self
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Untold: Deal with the Devil
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020Movie
Self
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
Basketball: A Love Story
2018TV
Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
2017Movie
Self
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017Movie
Self - Audience Member
Mansfield 66/67
2017Movie
Self - Actor(archive footage)
I Am Divine
2014Movie
Self (archive)
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
Corman's World
2011Movie
Self - Actor
How Do You Know
2010Movie
Charles
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010Movie
Self
Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
2010Movie
Self
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
2010Movie
Self
Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'
2010Movie
Self
Stardust
2010Movie
Self (uncredited)
I'm Still Here
2010Movie
Jack Nicholson
Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos
2010Movie
Self
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008Movie
Self
Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson
2008Movie
Self
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008Movie
Self / Jake Gittes (archive footage)
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008Movie
Self
The Bucket List
2007Movie
Edward Periman Cole
Making of Chinatown
2007Movie
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007Movie
Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007Movie
Self
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007Movie
Self
Witness to 'Reds'
2006Movie
Self
The Departed
2006Movie
Costello
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005Movie
Self - Presenter
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
Something's Gotta Give
2003Movie
Harry Sanborn
Celebrities Uncensored
2003TV
Self
Anger Management
2003Movie
Dr. Buddy Rydell
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003Movie
Self
About Schmidt
2002Movie
Warren Schmidt
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002Movie
Self
Nudes in the News
2002TV
Warren Schmidt (archive footage)
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001Movie
Self
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
2001Movie
Self
The Pledge
2001Movie
Jerry Black
Velocity
1999Movie
Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage)
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999Movie
Playmate Pajama Party
1999Movie
self
Junket Whore
1998Movie
Self
As Good as It Gets
1997Movie
Melvin Udall
Completely Cuckoo
1997Movie
The Evening Star
1996Movie
Garrett Breedlove
Mars Attacks!
1996Movie
President Dale / Art Land
Blood and Wine
1996Movie
Alex
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped
1995Movie
Self
The Rolling Stones: Stripped
1995Movie
Self
The Crossing Guard
1995Movie
Freddy Gale
Wolf
1994Movie
Will Randall
Hoffa
1992Movie
James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa
A Few Good Men
1992Movie
Col. Nathan R. Jessep
Man Trouble
1992Movie
Harry Bliss
The Two Jakes
1990Movie
J.J. "Jake" Gittes
Batman
1989Movie
Joker / Jack Napier
On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988Movie
Jack Nicholson
Ironweed
1987Movie
Francis Phelan
Broadcast News
1987Movie
Bill Rorich
Creepy Classics
1987Movie
Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage)
Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump
1987Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Witches of Eastwick
1987Movie
Daryl Van Horne
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
1987Movie
Narrator (voice)
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986Movie
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
The Elephant's Child
1986Movie
Narrator (voice)
Heartburn
1986Movie
Mark
Live Aid
1985Movie
Self
Prizzi's Honor
1985Movie
Charley Partanna
Goldene Kamera
1984TV
Self
Terms of Endearment
1983Movie
Garrett Breedlove
Not Necessarily the News
1983TV
Self (archive footage)
The Border
1982Movie
Charlie Smith
Reds
1981Movie
Eugene O'Neill
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981Movie
Frank Chambers
Making 'The Shining'
1980Movie
Self
The Shining
1980Movie
Jack Torrance
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978TV
Self
Goin' South
1978Movie
Henry Moon
Ciné regards
1978TV
Self
The Last Tycoon
1976Movie
Brimmer
The Missouri Breaks
1976Movie
Tom Logan
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976Movie
Self
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975Movie
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self, Self (uncredited)
The Fortune
1975Movie
Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan
Tommy
1975Movie
The Specialist
The Passenger
1975Movie
David Locke
Chinatown
1974Movie
J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
The Last Detail
1973Movie
Billy L. 'Badass' Buddusky
The King of Marvin Gardens
1972Movie
David Staebler
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972Movie
Self
Film '72
1971TV
Self
A Safe Place
1971Movie
Mitch
Carnal Knowledge
1971Movie
Jonathan
Drive, He Said
1971Movie
Annoyed Bearded Guy
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971Movie
Narrator
Five Easy Pieces
1970Movie
Robert Eroica Dupea
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970Movie
Tad Pringle
Rebel Rousers
1970Movie
Bunny
Easy Rider
1969Movie
George Hanson
Head
1968Movie
Self (uncredited)
Targets
1968Movie
Lt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited)
Psych-Out
1968Movie
Stoney
The Movie Orgy
1968Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967TV
Tom Murdock
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967Movie
Gino, Hit Man (uncredited)
Hells Angels on Wheels
1967Movie
Poet
Ride in the Whirlwind
1966Movie
Wes
The Shooting
1966Movie
Billy Spear
Back Door to Hell
1964Movie
Burnett
Flight to Fury
1964Movie
Jay Wickham
Ensign Pulver
1964Movie
Yeoman Dolan
The Terror
1963Movie
Lt. Andre Duvalier
The Raven
1963Movie
Rexford Bedlo
The Broken Land
1962Movie
Will
The Hour of St. Francis
1962Movie
Jim Evans
Little Amy
1962Movie
Jefferson City Coach
Little Amy
1962TV
Jefferson City Coach
The Andy Griffith Show
1960TV
Mr. Garland, Marvin Jenkins
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960TV
Bud
Studs Lonigan
1960Movie
Weary Reilly
The Wild Ride
1960Movie
Johnny Varron
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960Movie
Wilbur Force
Too Soon to Love
1960Movie
Buddy
Mr. Lucky
1959TV
Martin
Hawaiian Eye
1959TV
Tony Morgan
Bronco
1958TV
Bob Doolin
Cry Baby Killer
1958Movie
Jimmy Wallace
Sea Hunt
1958TV
John Stark
Matinee Theater
1955TV
Musician's Son
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient, Self - Nominee / Presenter, Self - Nominee
Monty and the Movies
Movie
Self (archive footage)