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Jerry Lewis

American comedian, actor and film director (1926–2017)

2.08body-of-work score · ranked #507 of 2631 directors · 7 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
March 16, 1926 · Newark
Died
August 20, 2017 · Las Vegas
Nationality
United States
Work
comedian, film actor, film director, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Jerry Lewis
According to Bonhams, the reverse side was stamped with "Paramount Photo by Bud Fraker". According to mptvimages.com, Fraker was born in 1916, died in 2002, and worked as Director of Still Photography at Columbia and later Paramount. · Public domain

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Nutty Professor

    1963 · United States · comedy, sci-fi, romance

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1963 #7 · National Film Registry (inducted 2004) · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.673 citations
  2. 2
    Cracking Up

    1983 · United States · comedy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1983 #10 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.402 citations
  3. 3
    The Big Mouth

    1967 · United States · comedy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1967 #6

    0.361 citation
  4. 4
    The Family Jewels

    1965 · United States · comedy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1965 #8

    0.321 citation
  5. 5
    The Bellboy

    1960 · United States · comedy

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation
  6. 6
    The Ladies Man

    1961 · United States · comedy

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation
  7. 7
    Hardly Working

    1980 · United States · comedy

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 13 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.