Screenplay: Jerry Lewis

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jerry Lewis. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Smorgasbord (Cracking up)

1983 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

6.7

117 votes

6.7

117 votes

The Patsy

1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Ina Balin · Everett Sloane · Phil Harris

Plot When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man...

6.4

255 votes

6.4

255 votes

The Nutty Professor

1963 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Stella Stevens · Del Moore · Kathleen Freeman

Plot Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football-playing bully embarrasses and...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

The Ladies Man (The Ladies' Man)

1961 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Helen Traubel · Kathleen Freeman · Hope Holiday

Plot The rubber-legged, rubber-faced Lewis plays Herbert H. Herbert, a man who is despondent over the break-up of his romance. While looking for a job, he comes across an impressive mansion...

6.2

987 votes

6.2

987 votes

The Errand Boy

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Brian Donlevy · Sig Ruman · Dick Wesson

Plot When Mr. T.P., president of Paramutual Studios, hires clumsy Morty Tashman (Jerry Lewis) to be "The Errand Boy" and to spy on his fellow employees in an efficiency "sting" operation,...

6.2

341 votes

6.2

341 votes

Hardly Working

1980 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

6.2

37 votes

6.2

37 votes

The Family Jewels

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Donna Butterworth · Sebastian Cabot · Robert Strauss

Plot Nine-year-old Donna Peyton is orphaned when her father dies and leaves her with a $30 million fortune. Her late father's attorney, John Wyman, explains that she must visit each of...

6.1

426 votes

6.1

426 votes

The Bellboy

1960 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Alex Gerry · Bob Clayton · Sonny Sand

Plot Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

The Big Mouth

1967 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Harold J. Stone · Susan Bay · Buddy Lester

Plot Gerald Clamson (Jerry Lewis) is a bank examiner who loves fishing on his annual two week holiday. Unfortunately one day at the ocean he reels in an injured gangster in...

5.8

93 votes

5.8

93 votes

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

2000 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Peter Segal

Cast Eddie Murphy · Janet Jackson · Larry Miller · John Ales

Plot Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is engaged to his pretty girlfriend Denise Gaines (Janet Jackson), also a professor. But Buddy Love, his other him from the first movie, tries to stay...

3.5

9K votes

3.5

9K votes

Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hal Sutherland

Plot Jerry works for Mr. Blunderbuss at the Oddjob Employment Agency. Each week Mr. Blunderbuss sends Jerry out on a new job, and each week Jerry finds a new way to...

Not rated

Not rated

The Day the Clown Cried

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Peter Ahlm · Lars Amble · Harriet Andersson

Plot In this unfinished movie (Some production footage can be seen online) Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar,...

Not rated

Not rated