Jack Nicholson (1937 - )

Date of Birth: 22 April 1937
Place of Birth: Neptune, New Jersey, USA
Date of Death:
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Also Known As: John Joseph Nicholson (real name)

BIOGRAPHY

Jack Nicholson was born John Joseph Nicholson in April 1937 in the St Vincent's Hospital, New York City and spent his early years living with his grandmother in Neptune, New Jersey. His was a strange childhood - his mother, a dancer and showgirl named June, had met and fallen in love with showman Don Furcillo-Rose who was already married to someone else. When June fell pregnant with John, they married bigamously but June's mother, Ethel May, was so appalled when she found out the truth that she packed June off to live with her cousin in New York.

After she gave birth to John, Rose returned to Neptune where the boy was raised by Ethel, John believing for many years that June was his older sister. He didn't learn the truth until 1974 when a journalist dug up the facts and told him during an interview. Nicholson's childhood was spent in the company of this strange family - also present were his aunt Lorraine - who he also believed to be his sister - and her husband after who he was named, the only adult male figure in his young life.

Nicholson wasn't a particularly studious child - he attended Manasquan High School in New Jersey but shined only in his many appearances on the school stage, an experience that was to leave him with a deep-rooted love of acting. At the age of 17, he travelled to California to visit his real half-sister, Pamela Hawley Liddicoat, determined that he would find a way into the movies.

His first proper job in the industry was as a messenger boy for the staff of the famous MGM cartoon unit, which he held down while honing his acting skills under the tutelage of the Players Ring Theatre. Bit parts in low budget movies and TV shows like Hawaiian Eye (1959 - 1963) and Tales of Wells Fargo (1957 - 1962) were soon filling up his CV, but his break would come, as it has for so many, when he moved into the orbit of producer-director Roger Corman.

Corman had already cast Nicholson in the lead of The Cry-Baby Killer in 1958 and during the early 60s, he was to allow Nicholson's talents to flourish in a string of low to no-budget features. His most famous role of the period was probably as the masochistic dental patient in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). Around this time, Nicholson met and married his first wife, actress Sandra Knight, with who he would father a daughter, Jennifer Norfleet before their divorce in 1966.

In 1963, Nicholson began writing scripts. Thunder Island was his first produced screenplay made before he hooked up with another Corman protégé, director Monte Hellman, to write and perform in Flight To Fury (1964), Ride In The Whirlwind (1965) (which he also produced) and The Shooting (1967). Nicholson wrote his scripts when he was indulging freely of the hedonistic, psychedelic lifestyle favoured by young Californians at the time and his ingestion of formidable amounts of mind-altering drugs was evident in the strange, existential tone of his work.

The drug culture and Nicholson's embracing of it led him to not only write Corman's controversial acid fantasy The Trip (1967) but also Bob Rafelson's deeply weird Head (1968) in which "manufactured" pop band The Monkees tried to self-destruct in a blaze of psychedelic glory.

While starring in Corman's biker flick Hells Angels On Wheels (1967), Nicholson learned of plans being hatched by co-stars Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper to film a script they'd cooked up about a pair of bikers cycling across America, the much loved Easy Rider (1969). Originally, the role of the Southern lawyer George Hanson was to have been played by Rip Torn. But when Torn bailed out at the last minute, Fonda and Hopper asked Nicholson to take on the role and was to change Nicholson's life - it bagged him an Oscar nominated and he hasn't looked back since.

As the 60s came to their fractious end, Nicholson continued to give powerhouse performances, netting more Oscar nominations for Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973) and for one of his best known - and simply best - performances, as private investigator JJ Gittes in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). Of screen, Nicholson continued his hell raising ways, living the Hollywood lifestyle with as much gusto as he had the counter-culture lifestyle of the 60s. His string of sexual conquests was legendary and gossips were full of stories about his hard drinking ways.

In 1975, he bagged his first Academy Award, picking up the Best Actor in a Leading Role statue for his performance as Randall McMurphy, an inmate of a psychiatric hospital who won't play by the rules in Milos Forman's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Having already directed parts of Corman's The Terror (uncredited) in 1963 and made his official directorial debut with Drive, He Said in 1970, Nicholson went back behind the cameras for the poorly received comedy western Goin' South (1978).

Following the failure of Goin' South, Nicholson took a year off before teaming up with Stanley Kubrick for the brilliant The Shining (1980). His over-the-top performance as the tortured and haunted Jack Torrance alienated many and led to wholly unsubstantiated claims that he was a ham, a reputation not helped by similarly larger-than-life showings in The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Batman (1989). But fine performances in Reds (1981), for which he was again Oscar nominated, and the controversial The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) helped to restore the balance somewhat.

Terms of Endearment (1983) snagged Nicholson his second Oscar and there were more nominations for Prizzi's Honour (1985) and Ironweed (1987), by which time he was firmly established as one of the best known and best loved actors in the world. His films were massive box office successes, his name in the credits seeming to guarantee endless queues at box offices around the world. And with the success came the escalating pay packets, culminating in the then unprecedented $60 million he earned for his role as The Joker in Batman.

Throughout most of the 70s and 80s, Nicholson had lived with actress Anjelica Huston but the press had been buzzing with headline-friendly tales of his womanizing ways. As he went into the 90s, Nicholson's career was at an all time high but the decade would bring him less luck romantically. Huston finally left him when he started seeing Rebecca Broussard, his daughter's best friend with who would father two children, Lorraine and Raymond. Lara Flynn Boyle was his next conquest, despite being 30 years younger than Nicholson, an affair that was successfully kept from the press until the couple were involved in a car accident and Boyle was forced to flee the scene before the photographers arrived. Scandal-mongers couldn't believe their luck when, in 1996, former prostitute Christine Sheehan claimed that she had visited Nicholson home in a professional capacity and was savagely beaten for her efforts.

But Nicholson continued to wow his legion of fans with outstanding performances throughout the decade. 1997 saw him picking up another Best Actor Oscar for his performance in As Good As It Gets, widely regarded as one of the finest of his career. For all the column space wasted on glorifying his off-screen antics, it's the performances that have kept Nicholson's fans coming back for more. And as the new Millennium dawned, he proved that he still as a big a draw as ever, effortlessly showing the young upstarts just how it should be done.

GENRE FILMOGRAPHY

1960
The Little Shop of Horrors (performer (Wilbur Force))
Kleiner Laden voller Schrecken - West German title
A Loja dos Horrores - Brazilian title
A Pequena Loja dos Horrores – Brazilian television title
La piccola bottega degli orrori - Italian title
Il piccolo negozio degli orrori - Italian title
Pieni kauhukauppa - Finnish title
Rémségek kicsiny boltja - Hungarian title
La tienda de los horrores - Spanish title
La tiendita del horror - Argentinian title

1963
The Raven (performer (Rexford Bedlo))
Le corbeau - French title
O Corvo - Portugese title
El cuervo - Argentinian / Venezuelan title
Korpen - Swedish title
Korpen i skräckens borg – Swedish television title
Korppi - Finnish title
Korppi joka kuoli nauruun - Finnish title
Kruk - Polish title
I maghi del terrore - Italian title
Der Rabe - Duell der Zauberer - West German title
Ravnen - Danish title

The Terror (director (uncredited), performer (Lt. Andre Duvalier))
The Castle of Terror
Genfærdets terror - Danish title
L'halluciné - French title
The Haunting – US television title
Kauhun vallassa - Finnish title
Lady of the Shadows
Pahin kaikista - Finnish title
Sombras do Terror - Brazilian title
The Terror - Schloß des Schreckens - West German title
El terror – Venezuelan title
O Terror - Portugese title
Terrorin vallassa - Finnish title
La vergine di cera - Italian title

1966
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Lost Bomb (11 December 1966) (crewman (uncredited)) *

1967
The Trip (script)
LSD - Danish title
Il serpente di fuoco - Italian title
La serpiente de fuego - Venezuelan title
Tripp till helvetet - Swedish title
Trippi - Finnish title
A Viagem – Brazilian television title
El viaje – Spanish television title

1968
Head (producer, script, performer (himself - uncredited))
Cabeza - Argentinian title
Changes - working title
DASturb - working title
Sogni perduti - Italian title
Untitled - working title

Psych-Out (performer (Stoney))
Busca Alucinada - Brazilian title
Helvetesgänget - Swedish title
Kuumaa 60-lukua - Finnish title
Pasaporte a la locura - Spanish title

Targets (performer (himself in scenes from The Terror (1963) (uncredited))
Before I Die
Bersagli - Italian title
Bewegliche Ziele - West German title
El héroe anda suelto - Spanish title
Levande mål - Swedish title
Míralos morir - Argentinian title

1970
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (performer (Tad Pringle))
L'amica delle cinque e mezza - Italian title
Einst kommt der Tag - West German title
Kerran kirkkaana päivänä - Finnish title
Melinda - Portugese title
En vacker dag kan man se hur långt som helst - Swedish title
Vuelve a mi lado - Spanish title

1972
The 44th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

1975
Tommy (performer (A. Quackson))
Tommy: The Movie – advertising title
The Who's Tommy

1978
The 50th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

1980
Arena: Making The Shining (performer (himself)) *

The Shining (performer (Jack Torrance))
L'enfant lumière - French Canadian title
O Iluminado - Brazilian title
Lsnienie - Polish title
Ragyogás - Hungarian title
El resplandor - Argentinian / Spanish title
La resplendor - Catalan Spanish title
Shining – Austrian / French / Hungarian / Italian title / West German title
The Shining - hohto - Finnish title

1983
The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston (performer (himself)) *

1984
The 56th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

1986
Elephant's Child (performer (narrator)) *

1987
The Witches of Eastwick (performer (Daryl Van Horne))
Las brujas de Eastwick - Argentinian / Spanish title
As Bruxas de Eastwick - Brazilian / Portugese title
Carodejky z Eastwicku - Czech title
Czarownice z Eastwick - Polish title
Az Eastwicki boszorkányok - Hungarian title
Häxorna i Eastwick - Swedish title
Die Hexen von Eastwick - West German title
Noidat - Finnish title
Les sorcières d'Eastwick - French / French Canadian title
Le streghe di Eastwick - Italian title

1988
How the Cammel Got His Hump (performer (narrator))

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (performer (narrator))

Monsters and Maniacs (performer (himself))

1989
Batman (performer (The Joker / Jack Napier))

1990
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

1993
The 65th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

The Who's Tommy, the Amazing Journey (performer in archive footage(The Specialist))

1994
The American Film Institute Salute to Jack Nicholson (performer (himself)) *

Wolf (performer (Will Randall))
A farkas - Hungarian title
Lobo - Argentinian / Portugese / Spanish title
Loup - French Canadian title
Volk - Slovenian title
Wolf - Das Tier im Manne - German title
Wolf - la belva è fuori - Italian title
Ze'ev - Hebrew Israeli title

1995
The 67th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

The American Film Institute Salute to Steven Spielberg (performer (himself)) *

1996
The American Film Institute Salute to Clint Eastwood (performer (himself)) *

Mars Attacks! (performer (President James Dale / Art Land))
Atacul Martienilor - Romanian title
¡Marcianos al ataque! - Argentinian title
Mars attaque! - French Canadian title
Mars hyökkää - Finnish title
Mars napada - Slovenian title
Marsjanie atakuja - Polish title
Marte ataca - Spanish title
Marte Ataca! - Portugese title
Ha-plisha M'Ma'adim - Hebrew Israeli title
Támad a Mars - Hungarian title

1997
American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards: Jack Nicholson performer (himself)) *

1998
The 70th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

1999
The 71st Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

2000
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (performer (himself in archive - uncredited)) *

2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (performer (himself))
Maailma Kubrickin silmin - Finnish title
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film - German title
Stanley Kubrick - ohjaajan muotokuva - Finnish title
Stanley Kubrick: Una vida através del cine - Mexican title
Stanley Kubrick: Una vida en imágenes - Spanish title
Stanley Kubrick: Une vie en images - French title

2002
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Passions (thanks) *

2003
The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (performer (himself)) *

The 75th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

A Decade Under the Influence (performer (himself))

2004
The 76th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

NON-GENRE FILMOGRAPHY

1958
The Cry-Baby Killer (performer (Jimmy Wallace))

1960
Mr Lucky: Operation Fortuna (21 May 1960) (performer (Martin)) *

Studs Lonigan (performer (Weary Reilly))
Nuorten kapinaa - Finnish title
Vivi con rabbia - Italian title

Too Soon to Love (performer (Buddy))
Liian nuori rakastamaan - Finnish title
Teenage Lovers - UK title

The Wild Ride (performer (Johnny Varron))
Velocity - US video title

1961
Bronco: The Equalizer (18 December 1961) (Bob Doolin) *

Sea Hunt: Round Up (23 September 1961) (performer) *

Tales of Wells Fargo: That Washburn Girl (13 February 1961) (Tom Washburn) *

1962
The Broken Land (performer (Will Brocious))

Hawaiian Eye: Total Eclipse (21 February 1962) (Tony Morgan) *

1963
Thunder Island (script)

1964
Back Door to Hell (performer (Burnett))
Guerrilheiros do Pacífico - Brazilian title

Ensign Pulver (performer (Dolan))
Dos Fracos Não Reza a História - Portugese title
Fähnrich Pulver - Austrian title
Kapteeni yli laidan - Finnish title
Una nave tutta matta - Italian title
Operation Pazifik - West German title
¡Valiente marino! - Spanish title

Flight to Fury (script, performer (Jay Wickham))

1965
Ride in the Whirlwind (producer, script, performer (Wes))
A través del huracán - Spanish title
Le colline blu - Italian title
He ratsastivat elääkseen - Finnish title
He ratsastivat läpi luotisateen - Finnish title
L'ouragan de la vengeance - French title
Ritt im Wirbelwind - West German title
A Vingança de um Pistoleiro - Brazilian title

1966
The Andy Griffith Show: Opie Finds a Baby (21 November 1966) (Mr Garland) *

Dr Kildare: A Patient Lost (22 February 1966) (Jaime Angel) *

Dr Kildare: What Happened to All the Sunshine and Roses? (28 February 1966) (Jaime Angel) *

Dr Kildare: The Taste of Crow (7 March 1966) (Jaime Angel) *

Dr Kildare: Out of a Concrete Tower (8 March 1966) (Jaime Angel) *

1967
The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee, the Juror (23 October 1967) (performer) *

The Guns of Will Sonnett: A Son for a Son (20 October 1967) (Tom Murdoch) *

Hells Angels on Wheels (performer (poet))
Angeli dell'inferno sulle ruote - Italian title
Helvetesänglarna slår till igen - Swedish title
Helvetin enkelit - Finnish title
Tulikuumat pakoputket - Finnish title
Die Wilden Schläger von San Francisco - West German title

The Shooting (producer, performer (Billy Spear))
Hän ampui ensin - Finnish title
Das Schießen - West German title
La sparatoria - Italian title
O Tiro Certo - Brazilian title
El Tiroteo - Spanish title

The St Valentine's Day Massacre (performer (Gino - uncredited))
L'affaire Al Capone - French title
Chicago massakren - Danish title
Chicago-Massaker - West German title
Chicagon verilöyly - Finnish title
Chikago-massakern - Swedish title
Il massacro del giorno di San Valentino - Italian title
La matanza del día de San Valentín - Spanish title

1969
Easy Rider (performer (George Hanson))
Adam B'Eekvot Goralo - Hebrew Israeli title
Buscando mi destino - Spanish title
Easy Rider - matkalla - Finnish title
Easy rider. Buscando mi destino - Spanish title
Sem Destino - Brazilian title
Swobodny jezdziec - Polish title
Szelíd motorosok - Hungarian title

1970
Five Easy Pieces (performer (Robert Eroica Dupea))
Cada Um Vive Como Quer - Brazilian title
Cinq pièces faciles - French Canadian title
Cinque pezzi facili - Italian title
Destinos Opostos - Portugese title
Ein Mann sucht sich selbst - West German title
Mi vida es mi vida - Spanish title
Rajut kuviot - Finnish title

The Rebel Rousers (performer (Bunny))
Hell's Angels - raju jengi - Finnish title
Hurjaa menoa - Finnish television title
Les motos de la violence - French title
Rebel Riders - West German title
Rebellerna - Swedish title

1971
Carnal Knowledge (performer (Jonathan Fuerst))
Ânsia de Amar - Brazilian title
Ce plaisir qu'on dit charnel - French title
Coneixement carnal - Catalan Spanish title
Conocimiento carnal - Spanish title
Conoscenza carnale - Italian title
Iniciação Carnal - Portugese title
Köttets lust - Swedish title
Die Kunst zu lieben - West German title
Miehuusvuodet - Finnish title
Porozmawiajmy o kobietach - Polish title

Chronicles: Van's Last Performance (performer (himself))

Drive, He Said (producer, script, director)
Kör sa han - Swedish title
Sähinää, se sanoi - Finnish title
Yellow 33 - Italian title

A Safe Place (performer (Mitch))
Un lugar seguro – Colombian television title
Un posto tranquillo - Italian title
Ein Zauberer an meiner Seite - West German title

1972
The King of Marvin Gardens (performer (David Staebler))
Castillos de arena - Colombian television title
Der König von Marvin Gardens - West German title
Kungen av Marvin Gardens - Swedish title
Melech Ha-Iim - Hebrew Israeli title
Vain unelmilla on siivet - Finnish title

1973
The Last Detail (performer (Billy Buddusky))
La dernière corvée - French title
Det hårda straffet - Swedish title
Den hårde straf - Danish title
Das Letzte Kommando - Austrian / West German title
Ostatnie zadanie - Polish title
Saattokeikka - Finnish title
L'ultima corvè - Italian title
El último deber - Spanish title
O Último Dever - Portugese title

1974
Chinatown (performer (J. J. (Jake) Gittes))
Barrio chino - Argentinian title
Cínská ctvrt - Czech title
Kínai negyed - Hungarian title

1975
The Fortune (performer (Oscar Sullivan / Oscar Dix))
Akka jota ei saatu hengiltä - Finnish title
La bonne fortune - French title
Dos pillos y una herencia - Spanish title
Due uomini e una dote - Italian title
O Golpe do Baú – Brazilian television title
Mitgiftjäger - Austrian / West German title
Spite and Malice
Tango för tre - Swedish title
Uma Fortuna por Água Abaixo - Portugese title

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (performer (Randle Patrick McMurphy))
Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco - Spanish title
Atrapado sin salida - Argentinian title
Atrapados sin salida - Mexican title
Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest - Austrian title
Einer flog über's Kuckucksnest - West German title
Gøgereden - Danish title
Gökboet - Swedish title
Ken Ha-Cookiya - Hebrew Israeli title
Lot nad kukulczym gniazdem - Polish title
Prelet nad kukaccím hnízdem - Czech title
Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo - Italian title
Sti folia tou koukou - Greek title
Száll a kakukk fészkére - Hungarian title
Um Estranho no Ninho - Brazilian title
Voando Sobre Um Ninho de Cucos - Portugese title
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou - French title
Yksi lensi yli käenpesän - Finnish title

Professione: reporter (performer (David Locke))
Ammatti: Reportteri - Finnish title
Beruf: Reporter - Austrian / West German title
El pasajero - Argentinian title
The Passenger - UK title
Profession: reporter
Profissão: Repórter - Portugese title
Der Reporter - West German title
El reportero - Spanish title
Yrke: reporter - Swedish title

1976
The 48th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

The Last Tycoon (performer (Brimmer)
Le dernier nabab - French / French Canadian title
O Grande Magnate - Portugese title
Der Letzte Tycoon - Austrian / West German title
Magtens sødme - Danish title
Ostatni z wielkich - Polish title
Posledni magnat - Czech / Slovak title
Den siste magnat - Norwegian title
O teleftaios ton megistanon - Greek title
Gli ultimi fuochi - Italian title
O Último Magnata - Brazilian title
El último magnate - Argentinian / Spanish title
Az utolsó filmcezar - Hungarian title
Viimeinen valtias - Finnish title

The Missouri Breaks (performer (Tom Logan))
Duell am Missouri - West German title
Duelo no Missouri - Portugese title
Oi fygades tou Misouri - Greek title
Missouri - Finnish / Italian / Spanish title
Missouri palaa - Finnish television title

1977
The 49th Annual Academy Awards (performer (himself)) *

1978
Goin' South (director, performer (Henry Lloyd Moon))
A Caminho do Sul - Portugese title
Camino del Sur - Spanish title
Der Galgenstrick - Austrian / West German title
Häng inte här Henry Moon - Swedish title
Idac na poludnie - Polish title
Mitäs täällä roikut, Henry Moon? - Finnish title
Verso il sud - Italian title

1981
Notre Dame de la Croisette (performer (uncredited))

The Postman Always Rings Twice (performer (Frank Chambers))
O Carteiro Toca Sempre Duas Vezes - Portugese title
El cartero siempre llama dos veces - Spanish title
O Destino Bate à sua Porta - Brazilian title
Le facteur sonne toujours deux fois - French / French Canadian title
Listonosz zawsze dzwoni dwa razy - Polish title
A postás mindig kétszer csenget - Hungarian title
Postimies soittaa aina kahdesti - Finnish title
Il postino suona sempre due volte - Italian title
Postmannen ringer alltid två gånger - Swedish title
Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt - West German title

Reds (performer (Eugene O'Neill))
Adoomim - Hebrew Israeli title
Czerwoni - Polish title
Punaiset - Finnish title
Rojos - Spanish title
Les rouges - French Canadian title
Vörösök - Hungarian title

1982
The Border (performer (Charlie Smith))
O anthropos ton synoron - Greek title
Fronteira da Violência - Brazilian title
La frontera - Spanish title
Frontiera - Italian title
Gränsen - Swedish title
Grenzpatrouille - Austrian / West German title
Police frontière - French / French Canadian title
Raja - Finnish title

1983
Terms of Endearment (performer (Garrett Breedlove))
Becézö szavak - Hungarian title
Cena za neznost - Czech title
Czule slówka - Polish title
La fuerza del cariño - Argentinian / Spanish title
Hellyyden ehdoilla - Finnish title
Laços de Ternura - Portugese title
Tendres passions - French / French Canadian title
Voglia di tenerezza - Italian title
Zeit der Zärtlichkeit - Austrian / West German title

1985
Live Aid (performer (himself)) *

Prizzi's Honor (performer (Charley Partanna))
Die Ehre der Prizzis - West German title
L'honneur des Prizzi - French title
El honor de los Prizzi - Spanish title
Honor Prizzich - Polish title
A Honra do Poderoso Prizzi - Brazilian title
A Honra dos Padrinhos - Portugese title
Ha-kavod Shel Prizzi - Hebrew Israeli title
L'onore dei Prizzi - Italian title
A prizzik becsülete - Hungarian title
Prizzin kunnia - Finnish title
Prizzis heder - Swedish title
I timi ton Pritzi - Greek title

1986
Heartburn (performer (Mark Louis Forman))
Affari di cuore - Italian title
La brûlure - French / French Canadian title
A Difícil Arte de Amar - Portugese title
Flogismenes scheseis - Greek title
I lust och nöd - Swedish title
Se acabó el pastel - Spanish title
Sodbrennen - West German title
Sydän karrella - Finnnish title
Tzvita B'Lev - Hebrew Israeli title

1987
Broadcast News (performer (Bill Rorich))
Al filo de la noticia - Spanish title
Broadcast News - Nachrichtenfieber - West German title
Broadcast News - suora lähetys - Finnnish title
Dentro la notizia - Italian title
Edição Especial - Portugese title
A híradó sztárjai - Hungarian title
Meshadrim Hadashote - Hebrew Israeli title
Nos Bastidores da Notícia - Brazilian title
Nyhetsfeber - Swedish title
Telepasja - Polish title

Ironweed (performer (Francis Phelan))
Estranhos na Mesma Cidade - Portugese title
Ironweed - La force du destin - French title
Järngräs - Swedish title
Karhiainen - Finnnish title
Tallo de hierro - Spanish title
Wolfsmilch - West German title

1990
Cinéma cinémas: Jack Nicholson fait de la photo (6 November 1990) (performer (himself)) *

The Two Jakes (producer (uncredited), director, performer (Jake Gittes))
O Caso da Mulher Infiel - Portugese title
Chinatown II - Finnish title
Los dos Jakes - Spanish title
Dwóch Jakeów - Polish title
Il grande inganno - Italian title
Jake V'Jake - Hebrew Israeli title
Piège pour un privé - French title
Die Spur führt zurück- German title

1992
A Few Good Men (performer (Colonel Nathan R. Jessup))
Algunos hombres buenos - Spanish title
Bahurim Tovim - Hebrew Israeli title
Codice d'onore - Italian title
Cuestión de honor - Argentinian / Venezuelan title
Des hommes d'honneur - French / French Canadian title
Et spørsmål om ære - Norwegian title
Eine Frage der Ehre - Austrian / German title
Homens de Honra - Brazilian title
Kunnian miehiä - Finnish title
Ludzie honoru - Polish title
På heder och samvete - Swedish title
Questão de Honra - Brazilian title
Uma Questão de Honra - Portugese title
Zadnji dobri mozje - Slovenian title

Hoffa (performer (Jimmy Hoffa))
Hoffa: santo o mafioso? - Italian title
Hoffa: un pulso al poder - Spanish title
Jimmy Hoffa - Austrian / German title
O Preço do Poder - Portugese title

Man Trouble (performer (Harry Bliss)
O Cão de Guarda - Brazilian title
Ela Nunca Se Nega - Portugese title
Ella nunca se niega - Spanish title
La gatta e la volpe - Italian title
Koirat karvoissaan - Finnish title
Man Trouble - Auf den Hund gekommen - German title
Par i trubbel - Swedish title
Zürös manus - Hungarian title

1995
The Crossing Guard (performer (Freddy Gale))
Acerto Final - Portugese title
Crossing Guard - Es geschah auf offener Straße - German title
Crossing Guard - French title
Cruzando la oscuridad - Spanish title
Emily on poissa - Finnish title
Hämnden - Swedish title
Menekülés az éjszakába - Hungarian title
Tre giorni per la verità - Italian title

1996
Blood and Wine (performer (Alex Gates))
Blood & Wine - Ein tödlicher Cocktail - German title
Blood & Wine
Blood & Wine: sangre y vino - Spanish title
Gente peligrosa - Mexican title
Krew i wino - Polish title
Laberint criminal - Catalan Spanish title
Le négociant - French Canadian title
Sangre y vino - Spanish title
Sangue e Vinho - Portugese title
Verta ja viiniä - Finnish title

The Evening Star (performer (Garrett Breedlove))
Aftonstjärnan - Swedish title
Conflitti del cuore - Italian title
Czule slówka: ciag dalszy - Polish title
O Entardecer de uma Estrela - Brazilian title
Esthajnalcsillag - Hungarian title
Étoile du soir - French / French Canadian title
La força de la tendresa. La història continua - Catalan Spanish title
La fuerza del cariño: la historia continua - Spanish title
Iltatähti - Finnish title
Jahre der Zärtlichkeit - Austrian / German title
Lágrimas ao Entardecer - Portugese title
Tid for mer ømhet - Norwegian title

1997
As Good As It Gets (performer (Melvin Udall)
Besser geht's nicht - Austrian / German title
Bolje ne bo nikoli - Slovenian title
Det bli'r ikke bedre - Danish title
Elämä on ihanaa - Finnish title
Lepiej byc nie moze - Polish title
Lepsí uz to nebude - Czech title
Lesz ez még így se! - Hungarian title
Livet från den ljusa sidan - Swedish title
Livets lyse side - Norwegian title
Mejor... imposible - Argentinian / Spanish title
Melhor É Impossível - Brazilian / Portugese title
Pour le pire et pour le meilleur - French / French Canadian title
Qualcosa è cambiato - Italian title

Getting the Goods on As Good As It Gets (performer (narrator)) *

1998
Junket Whore (performer (himself)) *

Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (performer (himself in archive footage)) *

1999
The American Film Institute Salute to Dustin Hoffman (performer (himself)) *

2000
Eyeball Eddie (film mentor)

Gimme Some Truth (performer (himself in archive footage)) *

2001
America: A Tribute to Heroes (performer (himself)) *

Code of Conduct (special thanks)
Código de conducta - Spanish title

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (performer (himself)) *

The Pledge (performer (Jerry Black))
Asesino oculto – Panamanian title
Código de honor - Argentinian title
Det skete ved højlys dag - Danish title
Az ígéret megszállottja - Hungarian title
El juramento - Spanish title
Kunniasanalla - Finnish title
Löftet - Swedish title
Løftet – Danish advertising title
Mistanken - Norwegian title
A Promessa - Brazilian / Portugese title
La Promessa - French Canadian / Italian title
Das Versprechen - Austrian / German title

2002
About Schmidt (performer (Warren R. Schmidt))
A propósito de Schmidt - Spanish title
A proposito di Schmidt - Italian title
Las confesiones del Sr. Schmidt - Argentinian title
As Confissões de Schmidt - Brazilian title
Monsieur Schmidt - French / French Canadian title
Mr Schmidt - French title
Odot Schmidt - Hebrew Israeli title
Rundt om Schmidt - Danish title

Inside the Playboy Mansion (performer (himself - uncredited))

Leute heute: Cannes Festival 2002 (22 May 2002) (performer (himself)) *

2003
Anger Management (performer (Dr Buddy Rydell))
Ejecutivo agresivo - Spanish title
Locos de ira – Argentinian / Mexican / Peruvian / Venezuelan title
Méchant malade - French Canadian title
Self Control - French title
Terapia d'urto - Italian title
Tratamento de Choque - Brazilian title
Viharavi – Estonian title
Die Wutprobe - Austrian / German title

Celebrities Uncensored: 23 July 2003 (performer (himself in archive footage))

Cher: The Farewell Tour (performer)

My Buddy Jack (special thanks; performer (himself))
Spotlight on Jack Nicholson - US DVD title

Skull Session: The Making of Anger Management (special thanks)
The Making of Anger Management

Something's Gotta Give (performer (Harry Sanborn))
Alguém Tem que Ceder - Brazilian title
Alguien tiene que ceder - Argentinian title
Galen i kärlek - Swedish title
Jotakin annettavaa - Finnish title
Tout peut arriver - French title
Was das Herz begehrt - German title

2004
The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (performer (himself)) *

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009