There is a 3d John Joseph Jack Nicholson (April 22, 1937, Neptune City, NJ) is a retired American actor, producer, screenwriter, and film director, 2 whose career spanned over sixty years. He is recognized for playing a wide variety of characters, as a protagonist or as a supporting actor: from comedians or romantics to psychopaths, disturbed or villains. In many of his films he has played the 'eternal stranger', that character who rebels against conventional social structures. John Joseph Jack Nicholson (April 22, 1937, Neptune City, NJ) is a retired American actor, producer, screenwriter, and film director, 2 whose career spanned over sixty years. He is recognized for playing a wide variety of characters, as a protagonist or as a supporting actor: from comedians or romantics to psychopaths, disturbed or villains. In many of his films he has played the "eternal stranger,that character who rebels against conventional social structures."