Jack Nicholson's list of classic movie roles is one of the longest in the business. Whether he was freaking us out us as The Joker in Batman, petrifying us as Jack Torrence in The Shining or making us laugh with As Good As It Gets, he never failed to deliver. Away from the movies, his numerous successes with women off screen are as much fabled as his work on it.

DS takes a look at Jack Nicholson's life in pictures.