Jack Lemmon ham, a fine ham, and with ham you have to trim a little fat." The biography quotes Lemmon as saying, "I am particularly susceptible to the parts I play... If my character was having a nervous breakdown, I started to have one." He enjoyed longtime working relationships with both Blake Edwards, starring in "Days of Wine and Roses" (1962), "The Great Race" (1965) and "That's Life!" (1986), and Richard Quine, starring in "My Sister Eileen", "Operation Mad Ball", "Bell, Book and Candle", "It Happened to Jane", and "How to Murder Your Wife". Quine also directed Lemmon's screen test when the
Jack MacGowran Hall, that if you had read the play you would know that Old Gobbo was blind." Jack MacGowran played the title role of "Gandhi" in the Broadway play written by Gurney Campbell in 1971, directed by Jose Quintero. MacGowran's film career started in Ireland with the film "No Resting Place" (1951), and many of his earlier films were set in Ireland. Notably "The Quiet Man" (1952), "The Gentle Gunman" (1952), "Rooney" (1958) and "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959). In 1966 Roman Polanski cast him as the gangster Albie in "Cul-de-sac", before creating Professor Abronsius in "The Fearless Vampire