Actor

Jack Nicholson

128 movies as actor · 3 as director

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

1980 · Horror, Thriller

The Departed

2006 · Drama, Thriller

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975 · Drama

Batman

1989 · Fantasy, Action

Mars Attacks!

1996 · Comedy, Fantasy

Chinatown

1974 · Crime, Mystery

A Few Good Men

1992 · Drama

As Good as It Gets

1997 · Drama, Comedy

The Bucket List

2007 · Drama, Comedy

Anger Management

2003 · Comedy

Easy Rider

1969 · Adventure, Drama

Something's Gotta Give

2003 · Drama, Comedy

Jack Nicholson movies

Monty and the Movies

Self (archive footage)

Breakdown: 1975

2025 · Self (The Passenger-archive footage)

Films to Die For

2025 · (archive footage) (uncredited)

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

2025 · Self (archive photo)

John Candy: I Like Me

2025 · Self - Actor (archive footage)

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

2025 · Self

Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location

2024 · Self (archive footage)

Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

2024 · Self (archive footage)

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Untold: Deal with the Devil

2021 · Self (archive footage)

Morceaux de Cannes

2021 · Self (archive footage)

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020 · Self (archive footage)

Joker: Put on a Happy Face

2020 · Self

40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic

2020 · Self (archive footage)

Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood

2017 · Self

The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015

2017 · Self - Audience Member

Mansfield 66/67

2017 · Self - Actor(archive footage)

I Am Divine

2014 · Self (archive)

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

2012 · Self (archive footage)

Close Up

2012 · Self (archive footage)

Corman's World

2011 · Self - Actor

How Do You Know

2010 · Charles

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

2010 · Self

Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom

2010 · Self

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

2010 · Self

Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'

2010 · Self

Stardust

2010 · Self (uncredited)

I'm Still Here

2010 · Jack Nicholson

Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos

Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos

2010 · Self

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

2008 · Self

Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson

2008 · Self

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008 · Self / Jake Gittes (archive footage)

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

2008 · Self

The Bucket List

2007 · Edward Periman Cole

Making of Chinatown

2007

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

2007 · Self

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

2007 · Self

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

2007 · Self

Witness to 'Reds'

2006 · Self

The Departed

2006 · Costello

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

2005 · Self - Presenter

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

2004 · Self (archive footage)

Something's Gotta Give

2003 · Harry Sanborn

Anger Management

2003 · Dr. Buddy Rydell

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

2003 · Self

About Schmidt

2002 · Warren Schmidt

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

2002 · Self

America | A Tribute to Heroes

2001 · Self

Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

2001 · Self

The Pledge

2001 · Jerry Black

Velocity

1999 · Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage)

Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party

1999

Playmate Pajama Party

1999 · self

Junket Whore

1998 · Self

As Good as It Gets

1997 · Melvin Udall

Completely Cuckoo

1997

The Evening Star

1996 · Garrett Breedlove

Mars Attacks!

1996 · President Dale / Art Land

Blood and Wine

1996 · Alex

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

1996 · Self (archive footage)

The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped

1995 · Self

The Rolling Stones: Stripped

1995 · Self

The Crossing Guard

1995 · Freddy Gale

Wolf

1994 · Will Randall

Hoffa

1992 · James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa

A Few Good Men

1992 · Col. Nathan R. Jessep

Man Trouble

1992 · Harry Bliss

The Two Jakes

1990 · J.J. "Jake" Gittes

Batman

1989 · Joker / Jack Napier

On the tracks of a filmmaker

1988 · Jack Nicholson

Ironweed

1987 · Francis Phelan

Broadcast News

1987 · Bill Rorich

Creepy Classics

1987 · Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage)

Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His

Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump

1987 · Narrator (voice)

The Witches of Eastwick

1987 · Daryl Van Horne

Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

1987 · Narrator (voice)

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

1986 · Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

The Elephant's Child

The Elephant's Child

1986 · Narrator (voice)

Heartburn

1986 · Mark

Live Aid

1985 · Self

Prizzi's Honor

1985 · Charley Partanna

Terms of Endearment

1983 · Garrett Breedlove

The Border

1982 · Charlie Smith

Reds

1981 · Eugene O'Neill

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981 · Frank Chambers

Making 'The Shining'

1980 · Self

The Shining

1980 · Jack Torrance

Goin' South

1978 · Henry Moon

The Last Tycoon

1976 · Brimmer

The Missouri Breaks

1976 · Tom Logan

TVTV Looks at the Oscars

1976 · Self

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975 · Randle Patrick McMurphy

The Fortune

1975 · Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan

Tommy

1975 · The Specialist

The Passenger

1975 · David Locke

Chinatown

1974 · J.J. 'Jake' Gittes

The Last Detail

1973 · Billy L. 'Badass' Buddusky

The King of Marvin Gardens

1972 · David Staebler

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

1972 · Self

A Safe Place

1971 · Mitch

Carnal Knowledge

1971 · Jonathan

Drive, He Said

1971 · Annoyed Bearded Guy

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

1971 · Narrator

Five Easy Pieces

1970 · Robert Eroica Dupea

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970 · Tad Pringle

Rebel Rousers

1970 · Bunny

Easy Rider

1969 · George Hanson

Head

1968 · Self (uncredited)

Targets

1968 · Lt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited)

Psych-Out

1968 · Stoney

The Movie Orgy

1968 · Self (archive footage)

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967 · Gino, Hit Man (uncredited)

Hells Angels on Wheels

1967 · Poet

Ride in the Whirlwind

1966 · Wes

The Shooting

1966 · Billy Spear

Back Door to Hell

1964 · Burnett

Flight to Fury

1964 · Jay Wickham

Ensign Pulver

1964 · Yeoman Dolan

The Terror

1963 · Lt. Andre Duvalier

The Raven

1963 · Rexford Bedlo

The Broken Land

1962 · Will

The Hour of St. Francis

1962 · Jim Evans

Little Amy

1962 · Jefferson City Coach

Studs Lonigan

1960 · Weary Reilly

The Wild Ride

1960 · Johnny Varron

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960 · Wilbur Force

Too Soon to Love

1960 · Buddy

Cry Baby Killer

1958 · Jimmy Wallace

Directed by Jack Nicholson

The Two Jakes

1990

Goin' South

1978

Drive, He Said

1971

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