" Jack Nicholson gives a gigantic powerhouse performance "— The New York Times

In the 1997 Oscar winning film As Good as It Gets, the misanthropic character played by Jack Nicholson sings " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " as evidence of the character's change in attitude.

* In 1980, the film The Shining was released, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson.

" Actor Jack Nicholson once said, " When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one.

But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so.

Their son Hopper Jack Penn, born August 6, 1993, is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Burton cast Jack Nicholson as The Joker ( Tim Curry being his second choice ) in a move that helped assuage fans ' fears, as well as attracting older audiences not as interested in a superhero film.

Sympathetic portrayals are few but notable, such as the comedic but tortured protagonist David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London, and a less anguished and more confident and charismatic Jack Nicholson in the 1994 film Wolf.

* April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American actor

The third, The Passenger ( 1975 ), starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider, received critical praise, but also did poorly at the box office.

" It was presented to him by Jack Nicholson.

* She agreed to a date with actor Jack Nicholson to make Bogdanovich jealous.

* Ken Kesey's famed fictional character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest who was, in the movie, played by Jack Nicholson.

In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets ; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.

Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton, as Louise Bryant, and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O ' Neill.

Actors considered for the role The Continental Op were Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson.

In spite of initial difficulties, he started directing in the United States, and achieved success in 1975 with the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, and many others.

It was used in Antonioni's film The Passenger as a backdrop for the first meeting between Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.

Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s ( the other one being Jack Nicholson ).

She finally scored a major box-office hit as Sukie Ridgemont in the 1987 adaptation of John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon.

Since then only four people have equalled or surpassed this figure, Meryl Streep ( with seventeen nominations and three wins ), Katharine Hepburn ( twelve nominations and four wins ), Jack Nicholson ( twelve nominations and three wins ) and Laurence Olivier ( ten nominations and one win ).

O ' Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds about the life of John Reed.

* Jack Billion ( born 1939 ), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota

Their son, Jack, was born in 1988.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Harrison Hagan " Jack " Schmitt ( born July 3, 1935 ) is an American geologist, a retired NASA astronaut, university professor, and a former U. S. senator from New Mexico.

Calling it " really an emotional decision ", she explained: " He was so full of promise, like Jack ; they were born in the same year.

* John Gardner Ford ( born 1952 ), American business executive who co-founded Outside magazine in 1977 ; second son of President Gerald R. Ford ; best known as Jack Ford

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where he was raised.

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

Leon Max Lederman ( born July 15, 1922 ) is an American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint research on neutrinos.

Mann was born in Chicago of Jewish heritage, the son of grocers Esther and Jack Mann .< ref >

The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers ( born Wonskolaser WON Sko La ' Ser or Wonsal )— Harry ( born Hirsz ), Albert ( born Aaron ), Sam ( born Szmul ), and Jack ( Itzhak or to some sources Jacob ).

Jack, the youngest, was born in Canada.

* Jack O ' Neill ( businessman ) ( born 1923 ), American surfer and businessman, founder of O ' Neill, the surfwear and equipment brand

Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia to John Brendan " Jack " Kelly, and his wife, Margaret Katherine Majer.

John Griffith " Jack " London ( born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916 ) was an American author, journalist, and social activist.

* Jack Soo ( born Goro Suzuki ), Japanese actor

Birch was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors.

* Jack Cuthbert ( born 1987 ), English rugby union player

Jack McDevitt ( born 1935 ) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.