Jack Lemmon: A life in pictures

Jack Lemmon, who has died aged 76, was one of America's best-loved award-winning actors, known for both comic and tragic roles in a career spanning five decades.

Lemmon wins an Emmy for his role in TV movie Tuesdays With Morrie in 2000

Lemmon with wife Cynthia Stone in 1956 arriving at the annual Academy Awards

Lemmon stops for a quick photo at Heathrow airport in London in 1961

Lemmon pictured in 1956 with fellow stars Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum.

Lemmon and Tony Curtis starred with Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot

Lemmon starred in the 1982 movie Missing with Sissy Spacek for which he won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Lemmon with comedy acress Ellen Degeneres at the Primetime Emmys in 2000

Lemmon and Susie Tracy - daughter of actor Spencer Tracy - as he is awarded the Spencer Tracy trophy for career achievement.

Lemmon wins the Golden Globe for TV movie Inherit the Wind in 2000.

Lemmon featured in his first TV interview in 12 years in Scene By Scene for the BBC in 1998.

Lemmon at the memorial service for his friend and screen partner Walter Matthau who died in July 2000.