The legendary performer died Aug. 20 at age 91.

We look back at some of his greatest cinematic contributions.

Keep an eye out for Shirley MacLaine in her second film.

Jerry Lewis | Jerry Lewis and his partner, Dean Martin, were regularly cranking out box-office hits by the mid-’50s. But when former Warner Bros. animator-turned-director Frank Tashlin joined

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The Bellboy(1960)

This is where the brilliant second act of Lewis' career begins.

It’s also Lewis' greatest film, hands down.

Some say Lewis modeled the Brylcreemed Buddy on the smarmy Dean Martin as a kiss-off.

Jerry Lewis | At this point in their rocky relationship, Martin and Lewis were only speaking to each other when the cameras were rolling (it was their last

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But what sight gags!

Over the years, it’s taken on the aura of myth.

Jerry Lewis | This is where the brilliant second act of Lewis' career begins. Beginning with this stylish and hilarious flick about a hapless porter at Miami’s Fountainebleau

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Jerry Lewis | Released just months after The Bellboy , Lewis' riff on the classic fairy tale features him as the naïve, helpless victim of a wicked stepmother

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Jerry Lewis | Lewis returned to the director’s chair for this saucy comedy about a shy young man named Herbert H. Herbert who ends up as the caretaker

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Jerry Lewis | Lewis runs amok in mail room when the financially strapped Paramount Pictures hires him to be an undercover spy at the studio. Not the best

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The Nutty Professor (Movie - 1963), Jerry Lewis | Forget Eddie Murphy’s 1996 remake of this Jekyll and Hyde tale, this is the version to see. It’s also Lewis' greatest film, hands down. Playing

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Jerry Lewis | This one’s pretty straight forward: sight gags in the sanitarium. But what sight gags!

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Jerry Lewis | Shrouded in decades of mystery, this is Jerry Lewis' Rosebud . After all, he’d always maintained that it was his most personal project — so

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Jerry Lewis | Lewis got the comeback he deserved thanks to Martin Scorsese, who cast him as a Johnny Carson-like late-night talk show host kidnapped by a psychotic

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Jerry Lewis | A weird but compelling ’90s curio from Yugoslavian arthouse director Emir Kusturica, starring Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, and Lewis as Depp’s car salesman uncle. The

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