credits of
Jack Nicholson
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
December 18th, 2025 | Breakdown: 1975 | Self (archive footage) | 6.8 | |
October 23rd, 2025 | Films to Die For | (archive footage) (uncredited) | TBD | |
September 4th, 2025 | John Candy: I Like Me | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 7.9 | |
February 14th, 2025 | SNL50: The Homecoming Concert | Self | 6.7 | |
March 26th, 2024 | Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
November 13th, 2022 | Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | Self (archive footage) | 7.2 | |
August 17th, 2021 | Untold: Deal with the Devil | Self (archive footage) | 6.9 | |
July 2nd, 2021 | Morceaux de Cannes | TBD | 2 | |
October 22nd, 2020 | Kubrick by Kubrick | Self (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
August 18th, 2020 | Joker: Put on a Happy Face | Self | 8 | |
June 9th, 2020 | 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic | Self (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
December 9th, 2017 | Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood | Self | 6.7 | |
September 29th, 2017 | The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 | Self - Audience Member | 7.8 | |
January 29th, 2017 | Mansfield 66/67 | Self - Actor(archive footage) | 4.8 | |
October 9th, 2012 | Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir | Self (archive footage) | 6.5 | |
September 30th, 2012 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 9.5 | |
December 16th, 2011 | Corman's World | Self - Actor | 7.1 | |
December 17th, 2010 | How Do You Know | Charles Madison | 5.3 | |
November 23rd, 2010 | BBStory: An American Film Renaissance | Self | TBD | |
November 23rd, 2010 | Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom | Self | TBD | |
November 23rd, 2010 | America Lost and Found: The BBS Story | Self | TBD | |
November 23rd, 2010 | Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces' | Self | 6 | |
October 16th, 2010 | Stardust | Self (uncredited) | 6 | |
September 10th, 2010 | I'm Still Here | Jack Nicholson | 6 | |
February 20th, 2010 | Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos | Self | TBD | |
October 18th, 2008 | Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight | Self | TBD | |
January 18th, 2008 | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | Self / Jake Gittes (archive footage) | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 2008 | Notes on an American Film Director at Work | Self | 5.6 | |
December 25th, 2007 | The Bucket List | Edward Periman Cole | 7.2 | |
October 23rd, 2007 | View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' | Self | 7.4 | |
October 23rd, 2007 | The Visions of Stanley Kubrick | Self | 6.9 | |
October 23rd, 2007 | Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick | Self | 6.9 | |
October 17th, 2006 | Witness to 'Reds' | Self | 6 | |
October 4th, 2006 | The Departed | Costello | 8.2 | |
September 2nd, 2005 | Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast | Self - Presenter | 2 | |
August 29th, 2004 | Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild | Self(archive footage) | 2 | |
December 12th, 2003 | Something's Gotta Give | Harry Sanborn | 6.6 | |
April 11th, 2003 | Anger Management | Dr. Buddy Rydell | 6.2 | |
March 9th, 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 7.1 | |
December 12th, 2002 | About Schmidt | Warren Schmidt | 6.9 | |
November 26th, 2002 | Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. | Self | 6.8 | |
September 21st, 2001 | America | A Tribute to Heroes | Self | 6.5 | |
February 17th, 2001 | Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Self | 7.4 | |
January 19th, 2001 | The Pledge | Jerry Black | 6.6 | |
December 2nd, 1999 | Velocity | Johnny Varron (young) (archive footage) | 1 | |
October 21st, 1999 | Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party | TBD | TBD | |
October 12th, 1998 | Junket Whore | Self | 5 | |
December 19th, 1997 | As Good as It Gets | Melvin Udall | 7.4 | |
December 25th, 1996 | The Evening Star | Garrett Breedlove | 6 | |
December 13th, 1996 | Mars Attacks! | President Dale / Art Land | 6.4 | |
October 3rd, 1996 | Blood and Wine | Alex | 5.8 | |
May 19th, 1996 | Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels | Self (archive footage) | 6.4 | |
August 3rd, 1995 | The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped | Self | 7 | |
July 4th, 1995 | The Rolling Stones: Stripped | Self | 5.9 | |
January 26th, 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Freddy Gale | 6 | |
September 23rd, 1994 | The Making of '...And God Spoke' | Self - Academy Awards (archive footage) | 5.2 | |
June 17th, 1994 | Wolf | Will Randall | 6.1 | |
December 25th, 1992 | Hoffa | James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa | 6.3 | |
December 11th, 1992 | A Few Good Men | Col. Nathan R. Jessep | 7.5 | |
July 17th, 1992 | Man Trouble | Harry Bliss | 4.9 | |
August 10th, 1990 | The Two Jakes | J.J. "Jake" Gittes | 6 | |
June 21st, 1989 | Batman | Jack Napier / The Joker | 7.2 | |
January 1st, 1988 | On the tracks of a filmmaker | Jack Nicholson | TBD | |
December 18th, 1987 | Ironweed | Francis Phelan | 6.3 | |
December 16th, 1987 | Broadcast News | Bill Rorich | 6.8 | |
October 1st, 1987 | Creepy Classics | Rexford Bedlo - (archive footage) | 6.4 | |
September 1st, 1987 | Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
June 12th, 1987 | The Witches of Eastwick | Daryl Van Horne | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 1987 | Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories | Narrator (voice) | 6 | |
December 27th, 1986 | Barbra Streisand: One Voice | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) | 7.6 | |
September 1st, 1986 | The Elephant's Child | Narrator (voice) | 6.5 | |
July 25th, 1986 | Heartburn | Mark | 6 | |
July 13th, 1985 | Live Aid | Self | 7.9 | |
June 14th, 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Charley Partanna | 6.4 | |
November 20th, 1983 | Terms of Endearment | Garrett Breedlove | 7.1 | |
January 29th, 1982 | The Border | Charlie Smith | 6.1 | |
December 25th, 1981 | Reds | Eugene O'Neill | 6.9 | |
March 20th, 1981 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Frank Chambers | 6.5 | |
October 4th, 1980 | Making 'The Shining' | Self | 7.1 | |
May 23rd, 1980 | The Shining | Jack Torrance | 8.2 | |
October 6th, 1978 | Goin' South | Henry Moon | 5.8 | |
November 18th, 1976 | The Last Tycoon | Brimmer | 6.3 | |
May 19th, 1976 | The Missouri Breaks | Tom Logan | 6.5 | |
March 30th, 1976 | TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 6.3 | |
November 19th, 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Randle Patrick McMurphy | 8.4 | |
May 20th, 1975 | The Fortune | Oscar 'Dix' Sullivan | 5.4 | |
March 19th, 1975 | Tommy | The Specialist | 6.4 | |
February 28th, 1975 | The Passenger | David Locke | 7.2 | |
June 20th, 1974 | Chinatown | J.J. 'Jake' Gittes | 7.9 | |
December 11th, 1973 | The Last Detail | Buddusky | 7 | |
October 13th, 1972 | The King of Marvin Gardens | David Staebler | 5.9 | |
May 11th, 1972 | Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here | Self | 6 | |
October 1st, 1971 | A Safe Place | Mitch | 5.3 | |
June 30th, 1971 | Carnal Knowledge | Jonathan | 6.6 | |
June 13th, 1971 | Drive, He Said | Annoyed Bearded Guy | 5.7 | |
May 31st, 1971 | Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age | Narrator | TBD | |
September 12th, 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Robert Eroica Dupea | 7.1 | |
June 17th, 1970 | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Tad Pringle | 6.8 | |
April 1st, 1970 | Rebel Rousers | Bunny | 4.3 | |
June 26th, 1969 | Easy Rider | George Hanson | 7 | |
November 6th, 1968 | Head | Self (uncredited) | 6.2 | |
August 13th, 1968 | Targets | Lt. Andre Duvalier (archive footage) (uncredited) | 7.1 | |
March 6th, 1968 | Psych-Out | Stoney | 5 | |
January 1st, 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 6.6 | |
June 30th, 1967 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Gino, Hit Man (uncredited) | 6.3 | |
June 1st, 1967 | Hells Angels on Wheels | Poet | 5.2 | |
October 23rd, 1966 | Ride in the Whirlwind | Wes | 6.2 | |
June 2nd, 1966 | The Shooting | Billy Spear | 6.2 | |
December 19th, 1964 | Back Door to Hell | Burnett | 5.7 | |
August 7th, 1964 | Flight to Fury | Jay Wickham | 5.4 | |
July 31st, 1964 | Ensign Pulver | Yeoman Dolan | 6.6 | |
June 17th, 1963 | The Terror | Lt. Andre Duvalier | 5.2 | |
January 25th, 1963 | The Raven | Rexford Bedlo | 6.3 | |
March 31st, 1962 | The Broken Land | Will | 6.2 | |
January 1st, 1962 | The Hour of St. Francis | Jim Evans | TBD | |
January 1st, 1962 | Little Amy | Jefferson City Coach | TBD | |
September 1st, 1960 | Studs Lonigan | Weary Reilly | 4.7 | |
June 17th, 1960 | The Wild Ride | Johnny Varron | 4.8 | |
May 4th, 1960 | The Little Shop of Horrors | Wilbur Force | 6.3 | |
February 1st, 1960 | Too Soon to Love | Buddy | 4.6 | |
August 15th, 1958 | Cry Baby Killer | Jimmy Wallace | 5.8 |