Burt Lancaster
Acting
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.
Born: November 2, 1913
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Movie Tough Guys
This compilation of film highlights features many of the biggest box office tough guys of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s—Bogart, Brando, Cagney and more!
People's Choice Awards
An American awards show recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans.
Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Judgment at Nuremberg
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
1900
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
The Leopard
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
Sweet Smell of Success
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
The Train
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Birdman of Alcatraz
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Filmography
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
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as José (archive footage)
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as John W. Davis
as John W. Davis
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Narrator
as Leon Klinghoffer
as Gérard Carrière
as Cardinal Federigo Borromeo
as Doc "Moonlight" Graham
as The Jeweller
as Levi Rockwell
as Self - Host, Narrator
as Dr. Herbert Monroe
as PT Barnum
as Harry Doyle
as Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. 'Bull' Simons
as Delbert Teschmacher
as Harold Fallen
as Maxwell Danforth
as Felix Happer
as Teobaldo Visconti
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Host / Narrator
as Generale Clark
as Bill Doolin
as Lou
as Col. Anthony Durnford
as Self (archive footage)
as Maj. Asa Barker
as Self - Host
as Dr. Paul Moreau
as Gen. Lawrence Dell
as Shimon Peres
as Col. Stephen Mackenzie
as Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder
as The Legend Maker (Ned Buntline)
as Moses
as Self
as Self
as Moses
as Professor
as Jim Slade
as Narrator
as Farrington
as Cross
as McIntosh
as Valdez
as Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox
as Self - Presenter
as Mel Bakersfeld
as Self (archive footage)
as Narrator
as Mike Rettig
as Maj. Abraham Falconer
as Narrator
as Self
as Ned Merrill
as Self - Guest
as Joe Bass
as Dolworth
as Self
as Col. Thaddeus P. Gearhart
as Paul Labiche
as Gen. James Mattoon Scott
as Protester
as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
as Matthew Clark
as Robert Stroud
as Ernst Janning
as Hank Bell
as Elmer Gantry
as Ben Zachary
as Anthony Anderson
as John Malcolm
as Lt. Jim Bledsoe
as J.J. Hunsecker
as Marshal Wyatt Earp
as Bill Starbuck
as Mike Ribble
as Alvaro Mangiacavallo
as Elias Wakefield
as Joe Erin
as Massai
as Self
as Capt. David Dion O'Keefe
as Marine (uncredited)
as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
as Sgt. James O'Hearn
as Self
as Doc Delaney
as Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)
as Sergeant Mike Kincaid
as Jim Thorpe
as Owen Daybright
as Steve Buchanan
as Self
as Dardo Bartoli
as Michael (Mike) Davis
as Steve Thompson
as William Earle 'Bill' Saunders
as Henry Stevenson
as Self
as Chris Keller
as Frankie Madison
as Burt Lancaster
as Tom Hanson
as Joe Collins
as 'Swede' Andersen
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee