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Jack Nicholson

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker whose career has spanned more than 60 years. He is known for having played a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including comedy, romance, and darkly comic portrayals of anti-heroes and villainous characters. In many of his films, he played the "eternal outsider, the sardonic drifter", someone who rebels against the social structure.

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The Shining

1980
as Jack Torrance

The Departed

2006
as Francis "Frank" Costello

Batman

1989
as Jack Napier / The Joker

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975
as Randle Patrick McMurphy

The Bucket List

2007
as Edward Periman Cole

A Few Good Men

1992
as Col. Nathan R. Jessep

Mars Attacks!

1996
as President James Dale / Art Land

Anger Management

2003
as Dr. Buddy Rydell

How Do You Know

2010
as Charles

Something's Gotta Give

2003
as Harry Sanborn

Chinatown

1974
as Jake Gittes

The Witches of Eastwick

1987
as Daryl Van Horne

As Good as It Gets

1997
as Melvin Udall

Broadcast News

1987
as Bill Rorich

Monsters & Maniacs

1988
as Self (archive footage)

I'm Still Here

2010
as Himself

The King of Marvin Gardens

1972
as David Staebler

Carnal Knowledge

1971
as Jonathan

Head

1968
as Movie director at filmshoot in restaurant

Flight to Fury

1964
as Jay Wickham

Psych-Out

1968
as Stoney

The Border

1982
as Charlie Smith

Ensign Pulver

1964
as Dolan

The Fortune

1975
as Oscar

Ironweed

1987
as Francis Phelan

The Two Jakes

1990
as J.J. "Jake" Gittes

The Missouri Breaks

1976
as Tom Logan

Man Trouble

1992
as Eugene Earl Axline, aka Harry Bliss

The Last Detail

1973
as SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky

Five Easy Pieces

1970
as Robert Eroica Dupea

Back Door to Hell

1964
as Burnett

The Wild Ride

1960
as Johnny Varron

Terms of Endearment

1983
as Garrett Breedlove

Rebel Rousers

1970
as Bunny

Professione: reporter

1975
as David Locke

The Raven

1963
as Rexford Bedlo

The Evening Star

1996
as Garrett Breedlove

Prizzi's Honor

1985
as Charley Partanna

The Terror

1963
as Lt. Andre Duvalier

About Schmidt

2002
as Warren R. Schmidt

The Crossing Guard

1995
as Freddy Gale

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

2019
as Jack Nicholson

The Pledge

2001
as Jerry Black

Hoffa

1992
as James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa

Easy Rider

1969
as George Hanson

Tommy

1975
as The Specialist

Ca détourne

1992
as (archive footage)

Goin' South

1978
as Henry Lloyd Moon

A Safe Place

1971
as Mitch

Studs Lonigan

1960
as Weary Reilly

Kubrick par Kubrick

2020
as Jack Nicholson

Heartburn

1986
as Mark Forman

The Last Tycoon

1976
as Brimmer

Reds

1981
as Eugene O'Neill

Wolf

1994
as Will Randall

Blood and Wine

1996
as Alex Gates

The Cry Baby Killer

1958
as Jimmy Wallace

Sport in America: Our Defining Stories

2013
as Self (archive footage)

The Shooting

1966
as Billy Spear

Director

Movie Drive, He Said 1971
Movie The Two Jakes 1990
Movie Goin' South 1978

Writer

Movie Drive, He Said 1971
Movie Head 1968
Movie Flight to Fury 1964
Movie Thunder Island 1963
Movie The Trip 1967
Movie Ride in the Whirlwind 1966

Producer

Movie Head 1968
Movie The Two Jakes 1990
Movie The Shooting 1966

Guest Star

Episode RiffTrax
Little Shop of Horrors (Three Riffer Edition)
2009
Episode The Schlocky Horror Picture Show
The Terror (1963)
2008
Episode Saturday Night Live
Jon Bon Jovi/Foo Fighters
2007
Episode The Guns of Will Sonnett
A Son for a Son
1967
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor
2003
Episode The Andy Griffith Show
Aunt Bee, the Juror
1967
Episode Hawaiian Eye
Total Eclipse
1962
Episode The Andy Griffith Show
Opie Finds a Baby
1966
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols
2010
Episode Sea Hunt
Round Up
1961
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
The 58th Annual Academy Awards
1986
Episode Bronco
The Equalizer
1961
Episode Dr. Kildare
Out of a Concrete Tower (5)
1966