My famous fatherJack Lemmon’s son Chris was also an actor, but left the profession for a career that allows him to spend more time at home with his family.He says that decision was prompted by memories of growing up in the shadow of a famous father who was seldom home with his family.As Chris Lemmon watched his father lying in a hospital bed dying of cancer four years ago, he reflected on their unique relationship.“I'd pull my chair up next to his bedside and take his hand and I，d remember the wonderful time we had together.”But they weren’t all wonderful. “My father and my mother went through that sort of compulsory Hollywood divorce, when I was quite young,” he says.“When you*re as a big star as Jack Lemmon, you’re forced to place yourself and your career first. I was yearning for my father to be there.And what I had instead in my everyday life was an empty chair at the end of the table... an image that will haunt me for the rest of my days.”However, Lemmon recalls, the busy star recognized what his young son was going through. “So，he decided to take me on adventures,he says.“They really resurrected our relationship together. That, and our mutual love of music and later in my life, golf.
