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
Mark A. Lemmon Mark A. Lemmon Mark Andrew Lemmon an English-born biochemist, is the David A. Sackler professor of Pharmacology at Yale University where he co-directs the Cancer Biology Institute with Joseph Schlessinger. Lemmon was born in Norfolk, England in 1964 and grew up in Taverham and Poringland. He was educated at Norwich School (from 1976 to 1983), and then at Hertford College, Oxford, from which he graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Biochemistry in 1988. He completed his PhD at Yale University as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow supervised by Donald Engelman for research on