Hollywood Legend Jack Nicholson Retires From Acting

Radar Online ^ | Sep 4, 2013 | Dylan Howard

[Hotlanta Mike]

He’ll still sit court side at Los Angeles Lakers’ games, but Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson has quietly retired from the movie business, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

The 76-year-old icon has no plans to appear in films again after a career spanning five decades.

“Jack has — without fanfare — retired,” a well-placed Hollywood film insider confirmed to Radar.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[babble-on]

what’s this article from 1983 doing here?

[Texas Eagle]

Jack Nicholson is still alive???

[Perdogg]

ping

[onedoug]

Greatest role was The Terror (1963) with Boris Karloff.

[dfwgator]

Maybe he knows the end is near.

[headstamp 2]

It’s meatball wedges full-time now.

[wbill]

For five decades, Jack Nicholson has made a fortune by playing......Jack Nicholson.

I watched "The Departed" for awhile last night. He's just fun to watch.

[BipolarBob]

He finally got around to watching “Bucket List” and decided it’s time.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Never better then in The Shining.

[Slump Tester]

The man who axed the Monkees.

[Patriot Babe]

Yes he was so good in that movie and sure made me believe he was really crazy in life LOL. Just last night in BBC they were showing the Shinning. Still a good scarey movie.

[NCLaw441]

What does it mean to “retire from acting”? If a role comes up that he wants to do, he’ll do it.

[Portcall24]

Respect folks, a little respect.

One Flew Over a Cuckcoos Nest

Five Easy Pieces

[SoCal Pubbie]

His turn as Wilbur Force three years before that in "The Little Shop of Horrors" was, I feel, more nuanced and textured while still projecting that same Nicholson counterculture vibe he's famous for. Then again, his portrayal of Marvin Jenkins, the wrongly accused defendant in the "Aunt Bee, the Juror" episode of The Andy Griffith Show in 1967 perhaps demonstrates more range.

[Rummyfan]

I think it was Jake Gittes in Chinatown that was his best.

Or maybe Badass Budduski..

[novemberslady]

Jack Nicholson...my favorite crazyman
Thank you.

[fatnotlazy]

Nicholson shines in every movie he has made, even the ones that are bad. He is just so much fun to watch.

Of his many performances, my favorite is as Satan in The Witches of Eastwick. When Cher's character asks, “who ate you?” His reply: “I'm just your average, horny little devil.” Just the way he says it and that look — priceless.

[babble-on]

just saying, when people speak of his great roles, as you did, they are all before The Shining. After that, he was just playing himself.

[lefty-lie-spy]

I stay away from the pop culture tabloid stuff as much as all FReepers, but yeah, Jack Nicholson is my favorite actor. He always has been since I saw him in OFOTCN in a film class in junior high school in 1983. I love almost everything he touches. He and Frank Zappa are two men I have a lot of f**king respect for.