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
Direction Jerry Lewis
Cast Jerry Lewis · Milton Berle · Sammy Davis Jr. · Herb Edelman
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
Direction Jerry Lewis
Cast Jerry Lewis · Susan Oliver · Roger C. Carmel · Deanna Lund
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...
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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,...
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