SHORT TAKES : Actors Guild to Honor Lemmon
Actor Jack Lemmon, winner of two Academy Awards, was named recipient of the Screen Actors Guild’s highest honor, its Annual Achievement Award.
Lemmon, 64, will receive the award at the guild’s yearly membership meeting Dec. 10, the guild said Tuesday.
The annual award, the only national honor bestowed by the union, goes to a guild member for outstanding career achievement and contributions to charitable and humanitarian causes.
Other recipients include Bob Hope, Stan Laurel, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Gene Kelly and Paul Newman.
Lemmon, whose latest film is “Dad,” won Academy Awards for supporting actor in “Mister Roberts” in 1955 and lead actor in “Save the Tiger” in 1973.
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