Acting credits
142
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Jack Nicholson
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.7
Moderate attention
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Movies: 127Series: 19Crew credits: 11
TMDB ID: 514
IMDb ID: nm0000197
Known for: Acting
Born: April 22, 1937
Age: 89
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2025
Years active: 82
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q39792
Also known as
John Joseph Nicholson • Jack Joseph Nicholson • Джон Джозеф Николсон
Other jobs
Writer (4)Director (3)Screenplay (2)Producer (1)Thanks (1)
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.
Photos
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jack Nicholson.
Breakdown: 1975
as Self (The Passenger-archive footage)
2025 Movie
Films to Die For
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025 Movie
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
as Self (archive photo)
2025 Movie
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2025 Movie
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
2025 Movie
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
as Self (archive footage)
2024 Movie
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
as Self (archive footage)
2024 Movie
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2022 Movie
Untold: Deal with the Devil
as Self (archive footage)
2021 Movie
Morceaux de Cannes
as Self (archive footage)
2021 Movie
Kubrick by Kubrick
as Self (archive footage)
2020 Movie
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
as Self
2020 Movie
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
as Self (archive footage)
2020 Movie
Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
as Self
2017 Movie
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
as Self - Audience Member
2017 Movie
Mansfield 66/67
as Self - Actor(archive footage)
2017 Movie
I Am Divine
as Self (archive)
2014 Movie
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
as Self (archive footage)
2012 Movie
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012 Movie
Corman's World
as Self - Actor
2011 Movie
How Do You Know
as Charles
2010 Movie
Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'
as Self
2010 Movie
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
as Self
2010 Movie
Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
as Self
2010 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Jack Nicholson.
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
as Self (footage) • 4 eps
2025 Series
Basketball: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage) • 2 eps
2018 Series
My Spy Family
20 eps
2007 Series
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self • 1 eps
2003 Series
Not Necessarily the News
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
1983 Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self • 1 eps
1978 Series
Ciné regards
as Self • 1 eps
1978 Series
Saturday Night Live
as Self • 1 eps
1975 Series
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Tom Murdock • 1 eps
1967 Series
Little Amy
as Jefferson City Coach • 1 eps
1962 Series
The Andy Griffith Show
as Mr. Garland • 1 eps
1960 Series
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Bud • 1 eps
1960 Series
Mr. Lucky
as Martin • 1 eps
1959 Series
Hawaiian Eye
as Tony Morgan • 1 eps
1959 Series
Bronco
as Bob Doolin • 1 eps
1958 Series
Sea Hunt
as John Stark • 1 eps
1958 Series
Matinee Theater
as Musician's Son • 1 eps
1955 Series
The Oscars
as Self • 10 eps
1953 Series
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient • 1 eps
1944 Series