Burt Lancaster
Birthday: 1913-11-02
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique and distinctive smile (which he called "The Grin"). Later he took roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image. In the late 1950s Lancaster abandoned his "all-American" image and came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation. Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. He also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and Atlantic City (1980). His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty (1955), Trapeze (1956), and Sweet Smell of Success (1957). Lancaster also directed two films: The Kentuckian (1955) and The Midnight Man (1974). In 1999, the American Film Institute named Lancaster nineteenth among the greatest male stars of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burt Lancaster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birdman of Alcatraz
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Sweet Smell of Success
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The Leopard
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Movie Tough Guys
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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Field of Dreams
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The Train
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Moses the Lawgiver
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Airport
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1900
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Tough Guys
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Valdez Is Coming
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Local Hero
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Elmer Gantry
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Victory at Entebbe
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
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Criss Cross
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Sorry, Wrong Number
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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The Crimson Pirate
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Atlantic City
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From Here to Eternity
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The Professionals
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The Unforgiven
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The Hallelujah Trail
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The List of Adrian Messenger
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Seven Days in May
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The Cassandra Crossing
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Go Tell the Spartans
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The Scalphunters
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The Osterman Weekend
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
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The Flame and the Arrow
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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The Swimmer
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Desert Fury
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I Walk Alone
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Vera Cruz
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Luchino Visconti
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Brute Force
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Trapeze
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Executive Action
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Ulzana's Raid
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Lawman
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The Killers
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Scorpio
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Jim Thorpe – All-American
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Apache
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Separate Tables
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Vengeance Valley
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Rope of Sand
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The Rainmaker
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The Skin
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All My Sons
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The Fighters
Documentary about Ali's rise to glory, beginning with his "Cassius Clay" days back in Louisville....
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La Classe américaine
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Castle Keep
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The Gypsy Moths
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The Rose Tattoo
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Zulu Dawn
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Run Silent, Run Deep
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Fight of the Century
Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 197...
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
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Conversation Piece
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Come Back, Little Sheba
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
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The Devil's Disciple
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The Young Savages
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Rocket Gibraltar
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Mister 880
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A Child Is Waiting
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South Sea Woman
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Separate But Equal
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroye...
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
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Ten Tall Men
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His Majesty O'Keefe
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Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...
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The Midnight Man
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
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Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I
Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Fight Of The Century or simply The Fight, was a heavywei...
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Cattle Annie and Little Britches
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians....
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Little Treasure
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning...
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Jenny is a Good Thing
Jenny is a Good Thing is a 1969 American short documentary film about children and poverty, directed...
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Control
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strange...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning w...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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The Sky Divers
A behind-the-scenes, promotional short about the making of the feature film The Gypsy Moths (1969), ...
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Scandal Sheet
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foun...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian...
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The Jeweller's Shop
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-...
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Barnum
The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum....
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Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster,...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywoo...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...
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The Screen Director
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is...
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Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti...
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the ...
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The Untameable Kirk Douglas
The story of actor Kirk Douglas, the man and the legend, one of the last stars of the Golden Age of ...
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Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South
Colorful, outspoken, a man of many contradictions, Ralph McGill emerged during the troubled years of...
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Race to Oblivion
Documentary about the dangers of the nuclear arms race, including an interview with an eyewitness of...
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The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."...
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Games in Depth
A mysterious Polaroid-filmed short that showcases depth in stereo photography....
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Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academ...
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Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Burt Lancaster narrates this overview of the incredible career of jazz saxophonist Benny Carter, one...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hos...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, ma...
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Handle With Care
The program demonstrates and stresses the importance of a central agency in the community to assist ...
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James Bond: The First 21 Years
A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series....
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Airports
Edited together from all four Airport movies by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A H...
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