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Burt Lancaster

Born 1913-11-02

Died 1994-10-20

📍 New York City, New York, USA

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.

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Filmography 136

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

Morceaux de Cannes

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Untameable Kirk Douglas

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

as Self (archive footage)

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

as Self (archive footage)

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

as Self (archive footage)

Hollywood sul Tevere

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

Luchino Visconti

as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

as Self (archive footage)

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

as Self (archive footage)

La Classe américaine

as José (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

Separate But Equal

as John W. Davis

Separate but Equal

as John W. Davis

Movie Tough Guys

as Self (archive footage)

Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

as Self - Narrator

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

as Leon Klinghoffer

The Phantom of the Opera

as Gérard Carrière

I promessi sposi

as Cardinal Federigo Borromeo

Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South

Field of Dreams

as Doc "Moonlight" Graham

The Jeweller's Shop

as The Jeweller

Rocket Gibraltar

as Levi Rockwell

Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist

as Self - Host, Narrator

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

as Dr. Herbert Monroe

On Wings of Eagles

as Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. 'Bull' Simons

Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

Little Treasure

as Delbert Teschmacher

as Harold Fallen

The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)

The Osterman Weekend

as Maxwell Danforth

James Bond: The First 21 Years

as Felix Happer

as Teobaldo Visconti

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars

Race to Oblivion

as Self - Host / Narrator

as Generale Clark

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

as Col. Anthony Durnford

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

as Self (archive footage)

Go Tell the Spartans

as Maj. Asa Barker

The Unknown War

The Island of Dr. Moreau

as Dr. Paul Moreau

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Gen. Lawrence Dell

Victory at Entebbe

as Shimon Peres

The Cassandra Crossing

as Col. Stephen Mackenzie

as Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

as The Legend Maker (Ned Buntline)

Moses the Lawgiver

People's Choice Awards

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Moses the Lawgiver

Conversation Piece

The Midnight Man

Executive Action

Valdez Is Coming

as Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox

Fight of the Century

as Self - Presenter

Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I

as Mel Bakersfeld

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

as Self (archive footage)

Big Game America

The Gypsy Moths

as Maj. Abraham Falconer

Jenny is a Good Thing

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Scalphunters

The Professionals

The Hallelujah Trail

as Col. Thaddeus P. Gearhart

as Paul Labiche

Seven Days in May

as Gen. James Mattoon Scott

The List of Adrian Messenger

as Prince Fabrizio Corbera of Salina

A Child Is Waiting

as Matthew Clark

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Birdman of Alcatraz

as Robert Stroud

Judgment at Nuremberg

as Ernst Janning

The Young Savages

as Elmer Gantry

The Devil's Disciple

as Anthony Anderson

Separate Tables

as John Malcolm

Run Silent, Run Deep

as Lt. Jim Bledsoe

Sweet Smell of Success

as J.J. Hunsecker

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

as Marshal Wyatt Earp

as Bill Starbuck

The Rose Tattoo

as Alvaro Mangiacavallo

as Elias Wakefield

Reflets de Cannes

His Majesty O'Keefe

as Capt. David Dion O'Keefe

Three Sailors and a Girl

as Marine (uncredited)

From Here to Eternity

as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden

South Sea Woman

as Sgt. James O'Hearn

Come Back, Little Sheba

The Crimson Pirate

as Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)

as Sergeant Mike Kincaid

Jim Thorpe – All-American

Vengeance Valley

as Owen Daybright

as Steve Buchanan

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Flame and the Arrow

as Dardo Bartoli

as Michael (Mike) Davis

as Steve Thompson

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

as William Earle 'Bill' Saunders

Sorry, Wrong Number

as Henry Stevenson

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Chris Keller

as Frankie Madison

as Burt Lancaster

as 'Swede' Andersen

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee