Burt Lancaster

from New York City, New York, USA

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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.

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Timeline

2025Aged 112

  • Poster for Airports

    (Unknown)

2023Aged 110

  • Poster for Paul Newman: The Restless

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed

    Self (archive footage)

2022Aged 109

  • Poster for Rat Pack

    Self (archive footage)

2021Aged 108

  • Poster for Morceaux de Cannes

    Self (archive footage)

2019Aged 106

  • Poster for Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2017Aged 104

  • Poster for The Untameable Kirk Douglas

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2016Aged 103

  • Poster for Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

    Self (archive footage)

2014Aged 101

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

    Self (archive footage)

2010Aged 97

  • Poster for L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

    Self

2009Aged 96

  • Poster for Hollywood sul Tevere

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

    Self (archive footage)

2008Aged 95

2005Aged 92

  • Poster for Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

    Self (archive footage)

2002Aged 89

  • Poster for Luchino Visconti

    Self (archive footage)

1997Aged 84

  • Poster for Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

    Self (archive footage)

1996Aged 83

  • Poster for Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

    Self (archive footage)

1993Aged 80

  • Poster for La Classe américaine

    José (archive footage)

1991Aged 78

  • Poster for Movie Tough Guys

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Separate but Equal

    John W. Davis

  • Poster for Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

    Self (archive footage)

1990Aged 77

  • Poster for Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

    Leon Klinghoffer

  • Poster for Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

    Self - Narrator

1989Aged 76

  • Poster for The Jeweller's Shop

    The Jeweller

  • Poster for Field of Dreams

    Doc "Moonlight" Graham

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

    Self

1988Aged 75

  • Poster for Rocket Gibraltar

    Levi Rockwell

1987Aged 74

  • Poster for Control

    Dr. Herbert Monroe

  • Poster for Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

    Self

  • Poster for Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist

    Self - Host, Narrator

1986Aged 73

  • Poster for Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

    Self

  • Poster for Tough Guys

    Harry Doyle

  • Poster for Barnum

    PT Barnum

1985Aged 72

  • Poster for Scandal Sheet

    Harold Fallen

  • Poster for Little Treasure

    Delbert Teschmacher

  • Poster for Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Thanks

1984Aged 71

1983Aged 70

  • Poster for Local Hero

    Felix Happer

  • Poster for James Bond: The First 21 Years

    Self

  • Poster for The Osterman Weekend

    Maxwell Danforth

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

    Self

1982Aged 69

  • Poster for Race to Oblivion

    Self - Host / Narrator

  • Poster for Night of 100 Stars

    Self

  • Poster for I Love Liberty

    Self

  • Poster for Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

    (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

1981Aged 68

  • Poster for Cattle Annie and Little Britches

    Bill Doolin

  • Poster for The Skin

    Generale Clark

1980Aged 67

  • Poster for Atlantic City

    Lou

1979Aged 66

  • Poster for A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Zulu Dawn

    Col. Anthony Durnford

  • Poster for Arthur Miller on Home Ground

    Self

1978Aged 65

  • Poster for Go Tell the Spartans

    Maj. Asa Barker

1977Aged 64

  • Poster for Twilight's Last Gleaming

    Gen. Lawrence Dell

  • Poster for The Island of Dr. Moreau

    Dr. Paul Moreau

1976Aged 63

  • Poster for Moses the Lawgiver

    Moses

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

    The Legend Maker (Ned Buntline)

  • Poster for 1900

    Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder

  • Poster for The Cassandra Crossing

    Col. Stephen Mackenzie

  • Poster for Victory at Entebbe

    Shimon Peres

1974Aged 61

  • Poster for The Fighters

    Narrator

  • Poster for The Midnight Man

    Jim Slade

  • Poster for Conversation Piece

    Professor

1973Aged 60

  • Poster for Scorpio

    Cross

  • Poster for Executive Action

    Farrington

1972Aged 59

  • Poster for Ulzana's Raid

    McIntosh

1971Aged 58

  • Poster for Fight of the Century

    Self - Presenter

  • Poster for Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Lawman

    Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox

  • Poster for Valdez Is Coming

    Valdez

1970Aged 57

  • Poster for King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Airport

    Mel Bakersfeld

1969Aged 56

  • Poster for Jenny is a Good Thing

    Narrator

  • Poster for The Sky Divers

    Self

  • Poster for Castle Keep

    Maj. Abraham Falconer

  • Poster for The Gypsy Moths

    Mike Rettig

  • Poster for Big Game America

    Narrator

1968Aged 55

  • Poster for The Scalphunters

    Joe Bass

  • Poster for The Swimmer

    Ned Merrill

1966Aged 53

  • Poster for Games in Depth

    Self

  • Poster for The Professionals

    Dolworth

1965Aged 52

  • Poster for The Hallelujah Trail

    Col. Thaddeus P. Gearhart

1964Aged 51

  • Poster for Seven Days in May

    Gen. James Mattoon Scott

  • Poster for The Train

    Paul Labiche

1963Aged 50

  • Poster for A Child Is Waiting

    Dr. Matthew Clark

  • Poster for The Leopard

    Prince Fabrizio Corbera of Salina

  • Poster for The List of Adrian Messenger

    Protester

1962Aged 49

  • Poster for Birdman of Alcatraz

    Robert Stroud

1961Aged 48

  • Poster for The Young Savages

    Hank Bell

  • Poster for Judgment at Nuremberg

    Ernst Janning

1960Aged 47

  • Poster for The Unforgiven

    Ben Zachary

  • Poster for Elmer Gantry

    Elmer Gantry

1959Aged 46

  • Poster for The Devil's Disciple

    Anthony Anderson

1958Aged 45

  • Poster for Run Silent, Run Deep

    Lt. Jim Bledsoe

  • Poster for Separate Tables

    John Malcolm

1957Aged 44

  • Poster for Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

    Marshal Wyatt Earp

  • Poster for Sweet Smell of Success

    J.J. Hunsecker

1956Aged 43

  • Poster for Trapeze

    Mike Ribble

  • Poster for The Rainmaker

    Bill Starbuck

1955Aged 42

  • Poster for The Kentuckian

    Elias Wakefield

  • Poster for The Rose Tattoo

    Alvaro Mangiacavallo

  • Poster for Marty

    Producer

1954Aged 41

  • Poster for His Majesty O'Keefe

    Capt. David Dion O'Keefe

  • Poster for Apache

    Massai

  • Poster for Vera Cruz

    Joe Erin

1953Aged 40

  • Poster for Come Back, Little Sheba

    Doc Delaney

  • Poster for South Sea Woman

    Sgt. James O'Hearn

  • Poster for From Here to Eternity

    1st Sgt. Milton Warden

  • Poster for Three Sailors and a Girl

    Marine (uncredited)

1952Aged 39

  • Poster for The Crimson Pirate

    Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)

1951Aged 38

  • Poster for Vengeance Valley

    Owen Daybright

  • Poster for The Screen Director

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Jim Thorpe – All-American

    Jim Thorpe

  • Poster for Ten Tall Men

    Sergeant Mike Kincaid

1950Aged 37

  • Poster for The Flame and the Arrow

    Dardo Bartoli

  • Poster for Mister 880

    Steve Buchanan

1949Aged 36

  • Poster for Criss Cross

    Steve Thompson

  • Poster for Rope of Sand

    Michael (Mike) Davis

1948Aged 35

  • Poster for All My Sons

    Chris Keller

  • Poster for Sorry, Wrong Number

    Henry Stevenson

  • Poster for Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

    William Earle 'Bill' Saunders

1947Aged 34

  • Poster for Brute Force

    Joe Collins

  • Poster for Desert Fury

    Tom Hanson

  • Poster for Variety Girl

    Burt Lancaster

  • Poster for I Walk Alone

    Frankie Madison

1946Aged 33

  • Poster for The Killers

    'Swede' Andersen

Year unknown