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Burt Lancaster
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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")…
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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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2025
Airports
Movie
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2023
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
Movie Self
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2022
Rat Pack
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Morceaux de Cannes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Movie Self - Actor (archive footage)
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2016
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2010
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2009
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie
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2008
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Luchino Visconti
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1996
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
La Classe américaine
Movie José (archive footage)
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1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1991
Separate but Equal
Movie John W. Davis
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1991
Separate but Equal
TV show John W. Davis
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1991
Movie Tough Guys
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1990
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Movie Self - Narrator
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1990
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Movie Leon Klinghoffer
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1990
The Phantom of the Opera
TV show Gérard Carrière
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1989
I promessi sposi
TV show Cardinal Federigo Borromeo
- 1989
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1989
Field of Dreams
Movie Doc "Moonlight" Graham
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1989
The Jeweller's Shop
Movie The Jeweller
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1988
Rocket Gibraltar
Movie Levi Rockwell
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1987
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
Movie Self - Host, Narrator
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1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie Self
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1987
Control
Movie Dr. Herbert Monroe
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1986
Barnum
Movie PT Barnum
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1986
Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy
TV show Geheimrat Carl Julius Deutz
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1986
Tough Guys
Movie Harry Doyle
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1986
On Wings of Eagles
TV show Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. 'Bull' Simons
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1986
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Movie Self
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1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Movie Thanks
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1985
Little Treasure
Movie Delbert Teschmacher
