Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 02, 1913
Died
Oct 20, 1994
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
146 titles
Burt Lancaster
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.
Known For
Filmography
Airports
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Self (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Self (archive footage)
La Classe américaine
José (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
Separate but Equal
John W. Davis
Separate but Equal
John W. Davis
Movie Tough Guys
Self (archive footage)
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Self - Narrator
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Leon Klinghoffer
The Phantom of the Opera
Gérard Carrière
I promessi sposi
Cardinal Federigo Borromeo
Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South
Self
Field of Dreams
Doc "Moonlight" Graham
The Jeweller's Shop
The Jeweller
Rocket Gibraltar
Levi Rockwell
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
Self - Host, Narrator
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Control
Dr. Herbert Monroe
Barnum
PT Barnum
Tough Guys
Harry Doyle
On Wings of Eagles
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. 'Bull' Simons
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Self
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Thanks
Little Treasure
Delbert Teschmacher
Scandal Sheet
Harold Fallen
The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
Self
The Osterman Weekend
Maxwell Danforth
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
Local Hero
Felix Happer
Marco Polo
Teobaldo Visconti
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
I Love Liberty
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Race to Oblivion
Self - Host / Narrator
The Skin
Generale Clark