Burt Lancaster
Born: 1913-11-02 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1994-10-20
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2025
2023
- Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2017
- The Untameable Kirk Douglas as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2016
- Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
2010
2009
- Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Luchino Visconti as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1996
- Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach as Self (archive footage)
1993
- La Classe américaine as José (archive footage)
1991
- 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)
1990
- Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair as Leon Klinghoffer
- The Phantom of the Opera as Gérard Carrière
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs as Self - Narrator
1989
- Field of Dreams as Doc "Moonlight" Graham
- I promessi sposi as Cardinal Federigo Borromeo
- The Jeweller's Shop as The Jeweller
- Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South as Self
1988
- Rocket Gibraltar as Levi Rockwell
1987
- Control as Dr. Herbert Monroe
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
- Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist as Self - Host, Narrator
1986
- Tough Guys as Harry Doyle
- Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away as Self
- Barnum as PT Barnum
- On Wings of Eagles as Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. 'Bull' Simons
1985
- Little Treasure as Delbert Teschmacher
- Kiss of the Spider Woman ... (Thanks)
- Scandal Sheet as Harold Fallen
1983
- The Osterman Weekend as Maxwell Danforth
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
- Local Hero as Felix Happer
- The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends) as Self
1982
- Marco Polo as Teobaldo Visconti
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- I Love Liberty as Self
- Race to Oblivion as Self - Host / Narrator
1981
- The Skin as Generale Clark
- Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Bill Doolin
1980
- Atlantic City as Lou
1979
- Zulu Dawn as Col. Anthony Durnford
- A Walking Tour of Sesame Street as Self (archive footage)
1978
- Go Tell the Spartans as Maj. Asa Barker
- The Unknown War as Self - Host
1977
- The Island of Dr. Moreau as Dr. Paul Moreau
- Twilight's Last Gleaming as Gen. Lawrence Dell
1976
- 1900 as Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder
- Victory at Entebbe as Shimon Peres
- The Cassandra Crossing as Col. Stephen Mackenzie
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson as The Legend Maker (Ned Buntline)
- Moses the Lawgiver as Moses
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Système 2 as Self
- Moses the Lawgiver as Moses
1974
- Conversation Piece as Professor
- The Midnight Man as Jim Slade
- The Fighters as Narrator
- Moses the Lawgiver as Moses
1973
- Scorpio as Cross
- Executive Action as Farrington
1972
- Ulzana's Raid as McIntosh
1971
- Lawman as Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox
- Valdez Is Coming as Valdez
- Fight of the Century as Self - Presenter
- Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I
1970
- Airport as Mel Bakersfeld
- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
1969
- Castle Keep as Maj. Abraham Falconer
- The Gypsy Moths as Mike Rettig
- The Sky Divers as Self
- Big Game America as Narrator
- Jenny is a Good Thing as Narrator
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Scalphunters as Joe Bass
- The Swimmer as Ned Merrill
1966
- The Professionals as Dolworth
- Games in Depth as Self
1965
- The Hallelujah Trail as Col. Thaddeus P. Gearhart
1964
- Seven Days in May as Gen. James Mattoon Scott
- The Train as Paul Labiche
1963
- The Leopard as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
- The List of Adrian Messenger as Protester
- A Child Is Waiting as Matthew Clark
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- Birdman of Alcatraz as Robert Stroud
1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Ernst Janning
- The Young Savages as Hank Bell
1960
- Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
- The Unforgiven as Ben Zachary
1959
- Startime
- The Devil's Disciple as Anthony Anderson
1958
- Run Silent, Run Deep as Lt. Jim Bledsoe
- Separate Tables as John Malcolm
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Sweet Smell of Success as J.J. Hunsecker
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Marshal Wyatt Earp
1956
- The Rainmaker as Bill Starbuck
- Trapeze as Mike Ribble
1955
- Marty ... (Producer)
- The Kentuckian as Elias Wakefield
- The Rose Tattoo as Alvaro Mangiacavallo
1954
- Vera Cruz as Joe Erin
- Apache as Massai
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- His Majesty O'Keefe as Capt. David Dion O'Keefe
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Come Back, Little Sheba as Doc Delaney
- From Here to Eternity as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
- South Sea Woman as Sgt. James O'Hearn
- Three Sailors and a Girl as Marine (uncredited)
1952
- The Crimson Pirate as Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)
1951
- Ten Tall Men as Sergeant Mike Kincaid
- Jim Thorpe – All-American as Jim Thorpe
- The Screen Director as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Vengeance Valley as Owen Daybright
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Self - Intermission Guest
- Mister 880 as Steve Buchanan
- The Flame and the Arrow as Dardo Bartoli
1949
- Rope of Sand as Michael (Mike) Davis
- Criss Cross as Steve Thompson
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Sorry, Wrong Number as Henry Stevenson
- Kiss the Blood Off My Hands as William Earle 'Bill' Saunders
- All My Sons as Chris Keller
1947
- Brute Force as Joe Collins
- Desert Fury as Tom Hanson
- I Walk Alone as Frankie Madison
- Variety Girl as Burt Lancaster
1946
- The Killers as 'Swede' Andersen
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter