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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 22, 1937
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
Jack Nicholson
3.7 Popularity
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
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Breakdown: 1975
2025
0.0
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Films to Die For
2025
7.8
Self - Actor (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
6.7
Self
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
2024
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
6.9
Self (archive footage)
Untold: Deal with the Devil
2021
8.1
Self
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020
7.6
Self (archive footage)
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
Credits
Breakdown: 1975
as Self (archive footage)
2025
7.0
Films to Die For
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
0.0
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2025
7.8
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
2025
6.7
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.3
Untold: Deal with the Devil
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.9
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
as Self
2020
8.1
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.6
Basketball: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.3
Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
as Self
2017
7.5
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
as Self - Audience Member
2017
7.8
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
as Self (archive footage)
2012
6.5
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
9.5
Corman's World
as Self - Actor
2011
7.1
How Do You Know
as Charles
2010
5.3
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
as Self
2010
0.0
🎬
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
as Self
2010
0.0
Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
as Self
2010
0.0
Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'
as Self
2010
6.0
Stardust
as Self (uncredited)
2010
6.0
I'm Still Here
as Jack Nicholson
2010
6.0
🎬
Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos
as Self
2010
0.0
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
as Self
2008
0.0
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
as Self / Jake Gittes (archive footage)
2008
6.3
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
as Self
2008
5.6
The Bucket List
as Edward Periman Cole
2007
7.2
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
6.9
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as Self
2007
7.4
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
6.9
🎬
My Spy Family
2007
4.5
Witness to 'Reds'
as Self
2006
6.0
The Departed
as Costello
2006
8.2
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter
2005
2.0
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self(archive footage)
2004
2.0
Something's Gotta Give
as Harry Sanborn
2003
6.6
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
4.0
Anger Management
as Dr. Buddy Rydell
2003
6.2
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
2003
7.1
About Schmidt
as Warren Schmidt
2002
6.8
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
as Self
2002
6.6
🎬
Nudes in the News
as Warren Schmidt (archive footage)
2002
0.0
America | A Tribute to Heroes
as Self
2001
6.2
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
2001
7.4
The Pledge
as Jerry Black
2001
6.6
Velocity
as Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage)
1999
1.0
Junket Whore
as Self
1998
3.5
As Good as It Gets
as Melvin Udall
1997
7.4
The Evening Star
as Garrett Breedlove
1996
6.1
Mars Attacks!
as President Dale / Art Land
1996
6.4
Blood and Wine
as Alex
1996
5.7
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.4
The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped
as Self
1995
7.0
The Rolling Stones: Stripped
as Self
1995
4.5
The Crossing Guard
as Freddy Gale
1995
6.0
Wolf
as Will Randall
1994
6.1
Hoffa
as James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa
1992
6.3
A Few Good Men
as Col. Nathan R. Jessep
1992
7.5
Man Trouble
as Harry Bliss
1992
4.9
The Two Jakes
as J.J. "Jake" Gittes
1990
6.0
Batman
as Jack Napier / The Joker
1989
7.2
On the tracks of a filmmaker
as Jack Nicholson
1988
0.0
Ironweed
as Francis Phelan
1987
6.3
Broadcast News
as Bill Rorich
1987
6.8
Creepy Classics
as Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage)
1987
6.3
🎬
Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump
as Narrator (voice)
1987
0.0
The Witches of Eastwick
as Daryl Van Horne
1987
6.5
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
as Narrator (voice)
1987
6.0
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1986
7.6
🎬
The Elephant's Child
as Narrator (voice)
1986
6.0
Heartburn
as Mark
1986
6.0
Live Aid
as Self
1985
7.9
Prizzi's Honor
as Charley Partanna
1985
6.4
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
Terms of Endearment
as Garrett Breedlove
1983
7.1
The Border
as Charlie Smith
1982
6.1
Reds
as Eugene O'Neill
1981
6.9
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Frank Chambers
1981
6.5
Making 'The Shining'
as Self
1980
7.1
The Shining
as Jack Torrance
1980
8.2
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
Goin' South
as Henry Moon
1978
5.8
The Last Tycoon
as Brimmer
1976
6.3
The Missouri Breaks
as Tom Logan
1976
6.5
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
as Self
1976
6.0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Randle Patrick McMurphy
1975
8.4
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self
1975
7.0
The Fortune
as Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan
1975
5.4
Tommy
as The Specialist
1975
6.5
The Passenger
as David Locke
1975
7.2
Chinatown
as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
1974
7.9
The Last Detail
as SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky
1973
7.0
The King of Marvin Gardens
as David Staebler
1972
5.8
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
as Self
1972
6.0
A Safe Place
as Mitch
1971
5.5
Carnal Knowledge
as Jonathan
1971
6.6
Drive, He Said
as Annoyed Bearded Guy
1971
5.7
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Narrator
1971
0.0
Five Easy Pieces
as Robert Eroica Dupea
1970
7.1
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
as Tad Pringle
1970
6.7
Rebel Rousers
as Bunny
1970
4.0
Easy Rider
as George Hanson
1969
7.1
Head
as Self (uncredited)
1968
6.2
Targets
as Lt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
7.0
Psych-Out
as Stoney
1968
4.9
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
6.3
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Tom Murdock
1967
6.2
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Gino, Hit Man (uncredited)
1967
6.3
Hells Angels on Wheels
as Poet
1967
5.3
Ride in the Whirlwind
as Wes
1966
6.3
The Shooting
as Billy Spear
1966
6.2
Back Door to Hell
as Burnett
1964
5.5
Flight to Fury
as Jay Wickham
1964
5.2
Ensign Pulver
as Yeoman Dolan
1964
6.6
The Terror
as Lt. Andre Duvalier
1963
5.2
The Raven
as Rexford Bedlo
1963
6.3
The Broken Land
as Will
1962
6.4
Little Amy
as Jefferson City Coach
1962
0.0
The Hour of St. Francis
as Jim Evans
1962
0.0
Little Amy
as Jefferson City Coach
1962
8.0
Dr. Kildare
as Jaime Angel
1961
5.5
The Andy Griffith Show
as Mr. Garland
1960
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
as Marvin Jenkins
1960
7.6
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Bud
1960
6.2
Studs Lonigan
as Weary Reilly
1960
4.2
The Wild Ride
as Johnny Varron
1960
4.8
The Little Shop of Horrors
as Wilbur Force
1960
6.3
Too Soon to Love
as Buddy
1960
3.5
Mr. Lucky
as Martin
1959
6.4
Hawaiian Eye
as Tony Morgan
1959
5.2
Bronco
as Bob Doolin
1958
5.9
Cry Baby Killer
as Jimmy Wallace
1958
5.5
Sea Hunt
as John Stark
1958
6.6
Matinee Theater
as Musician's Son
1955
5.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2