Date of birth: 1913-11-02
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Burton Stephen Lancaster, Берт Ланкастер, برت لنکستر

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.

1962-07-04
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement.

1957-07-04
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B

1963-03-27
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g

1991-01-01
This compilation of film highlights features many of the biggest box office tough guys of the 1930s,

1961-12-18
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal

1989-04-21
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a

1964-09-24
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take

1976-03-26
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the

1970-03-25
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots

1976-08-28
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh

1986-10-03
Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have bee

1971-04-09
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when i

1983-02-17
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build

1960-07-07
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside e

1976-12-22
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Enteb

1948-10-30
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable

1949-02-04
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband

1948-09-24
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world.

1957-05-30
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic

1952-09-27
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the g

1980-09-03
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thro

1953-08-28
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's

1966-11-01
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious M

1960-04-06
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daug

1965-06-23
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance

1963-05-23
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help

1964-02-01
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

1976-12-18
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off t

1978-07-12
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similariti

1968-02-29
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recove

1983-10-14
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a

1982-05-21
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc

1950-07-07
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as th

1977-07-13
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a sci

1968-08-09
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1947-08-15
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1947-12-31
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1954-12-25
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. T

2002-06-23
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1947-07-16
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1956-05-30
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the du

1973-11-07
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1982-03-21
An all-star variety special saluting America.

1972-10-27
After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror,

1971-03-11
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their cele

1946-08-30
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede,

1973-04-11
Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted f

1951-08-24
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and de

1954-07-09
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for t

1958-12-18
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in t

1951-02-14
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1949-08-03
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out f

1956-12-13
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as

1981-08-27
Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian f

1974-01-04
Documentary about Ali's rise to glory, beginning with his "Cassius Clay" days back in Louisville.

1948-05-01
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1993-12-31
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1953-11-23
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

1969-07-23
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1969-08-29
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1955-07-22
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

1955-12-12
A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on h

1979-05-14
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1958-03-27
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper ano

1971-03-08
Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 197

1976-06-24
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1974-12-20
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1953-03-06
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1977-02-09
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1959-08-20
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1961-05-24
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1988-09-02
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1950-09-29
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is als

1963-02-13
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1953-06-27
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1991-04-07
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroye

2023-06-20
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock H

1951-10-26
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1954-01-16
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is th

1947-08-29
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char

1974-03-07
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1981-04-24
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1990-04-29
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1985-05-01
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1969-01-01
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1970-03-24
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The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.

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A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is
2008-12-31
A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti

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How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the

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The story of actor Kirk Douglas, the man and the legend, one of the last stars of the Golden Age of

2010-09-07

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1969-11-11
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1982-01-02
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Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

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1996-03-15
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The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place

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1983-05-27
A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series.

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Edited together from all four Airport movies by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A H