Burt Lancaster filmography
Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and producer. Initially known for playing tough guys with a tender heart, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in film and, later, television. He was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor (winning once), and he also won two BAFTA Awards and one Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema.[1]
Lancaster performed as a circus acrobat in the 1930s. After serving in World War II, the 32-year-old Lancaster landed a role in a Broadway play and drew the attention of a Hollywood agent. His breakthrough role was the film noir The Killers in 1946 alongside Ava Gardner. A critical success, it launched both of their careers. In 1953, Lancaster played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity. A box office smash, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and landed a Best Actor nomination for Lancaster. In 1956, he starred in The Rainmaker, with Katharine Hepburn, earning a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination, and in 1957 he starred in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral with frequent co-star Kirk Douglas. During the 1950s, his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was highly successful, with Lancaster acting in films such as: Trapeze in 1956, a box office smash in which he used his acrobatic skills; Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a dark drama today considered a classic; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), a WWII submarine drama with Clark Gable; and Separate Tables (1958), a hotel-set drama which received seven Oscar nominations.
In the early 1960s, Lancaster starred in a string of critically successful films, each in very disparate roles. Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor. He played a Nazi war criminal in 1961 in the all-star, war-crime-trial film, Judgment at Nuremberg. Playing a bird expert prisoner in Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, he earned the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and his third Oscar nomination. In 1963, Lancaster traveled to Italy to star as an Italian prince in the epic period drama The Leopard. In 1964, he played a US Air Force general who, opposed by a colonel played by Kirk Douglas, tries to overthrow the president in Seven Days in May. Then, in 1966, he played an explosives expert in the western The Professionals.
In 1970, Lancaster starred in the box-office hit, air-disaster drama Airport. He experienced a career resurgence in 1980 with the crime-romance Atlantic City, winning the BAFTA for Best Actor and landing his fourth Oscar nomination. Starting in the late 1970s, he also appeared in television mini-series, including the award-winning Separate but Equal with Sidney Poitier. He continued acting into his late 70s, until a stroke in 1990 forced him to retire; four years later he died from a heart attack. His final film role was in the Oscar-nominated Field of Dreams.
Film
As actor
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1946 | The Killers | Ole "Swede" Anderson | |
1947 | Brute Force | Joe Collins | |
Desert Fury | Tom Hanson | ||
Variety Girl | Himself | ||
1948 | I Walk Alone | Frankie Madison | |
All My Sons | Chris Keller | ||
Sorry, Wrong Number | Henry Stevenson | ||
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands | William Earle "Bill" Saunders | ||
1949 | Criss Cross | Steve Thompson | |
Rope of Sand | Michael "Mike" Davis | ||
1950 | The Flame and the Arrow | Dardo Bartoli | |
Mister 880 | Steve Buchanan | ||
1951 | Vengeance Valley | Owen Daybright | |
Jim Thorpe – All-American | Jim Thorpe | ||
Ten Tall Men | Sergeant Mike Kincaid | ||
1952 | The Crimson Pirate | Capitan Vallo | |
Come Back, Little Sheba | Doc Delaney | ||
1953 | South Sea Woman | Master Gunnery Sgt. James O'Hearn | |
From Here to Eternity | 1st Sergeant Milton Warden | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor | |
Three Sailors and a Girl | Marine | Uncredited | |
1954 | His Majesty O'Keefe | Captain David O'Keefe / Narrator | |
Apache | Massai | ||
Vera Cruz | Joe Erin | ||
1955 | The Kentuckian | Elias Wakefield (Big Eli) | Director Nominated—Golden Lion for Best Director |
The Rose Tattoo | Alvaro Mangiacavallo | ||
1956 | Trapeze | Mike Ribble | Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin[2] |
The Rainmaker | Bill Starbuck | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | |
1957 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Marshal Wyatt Earp | Laurel Award for Top Male Action Star |
Sweet Smell of Success | J.J. Hunsecker | ||
1958 | Run Silent, Run Deep | Lieutenant Commander Jim Bledsoe | |
Separate Tables | John Malcolm | ||
1959 | The Devil's Disciple | Reverend Anthony Anderson | |
1960 | The Unforgiven | Ben Zachary | |
Elmer Gantry | Elmer Gantry | Academy Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
1961 | The Young Savages | ADA Hank Bell | |
Judgment at Nuremberg | Dr. Ernst Janning | ||
1962 | Birdman of Alcatraz | Robert Stroud | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Volpi Cup for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance |
1963 | A Child Is Waiting | Dr. Matthew Clark | |
The Leopard | Prince Don Fabrizio Salina | ||
The List of Adrian Messenger | Animal Rights Protester (cameo) | ||
1964 | Seven Days in May | General James Mattoon Scott | Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance |
1965 | The Train | Paul Labiche | Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Action Performance |
The Hallelujah Trail | Colonel Thaddeus Gearhart | ||
1966 | The Professionals | Bill Dolworth | |
1968 | The Scalphunters | Joe Bass | Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Action Performance |
The Swimmer | Ned Merrill | ||
1969 | Jenny Is a Good Thing | Narrator | |
Castle Keep | Maj. Abraham Falconer | ||
The Gypsy Moths | Mike Rettig | ||
1970 | Airport | Mel Bakersfeld | |
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Himself | ||
1971 | Lawman | Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox | |
Valdez Is Coming | Marshal Bob Valdez | ||
1972 | Ulzana's Raid | U.S. Cavalry Scout McIntosh | |
1973 | Scorpio | Cross | |
Executive Action | James Farrington | ||
1974 | The Midnight Man | Jim Slade | Co-Director |
Conversation Piece | The Professor | David di Donatello for Best Actor Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Foreign Movie Performer | |
1976 | 1900 | Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder | |
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson | Ned Buntline | ||
The Cassandra Crossing | Colonel Stephen Mackenzie | ||
1977 | Twilight's Last Gleaming | General Lawrence Dell | |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | Dr. Paul Moreau | ||
1978 | Go Tell the Spartans | Major Asa Barker | |
1979 | Zulu Dawn | Colonel Anthony Durnford | |
1980 | Atlantic City | Lou Pascal | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor David di Donatello for Best Actor Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Foreign Movie Performer Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
1981 | Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Bill Doolin, the Oklahoma outlaw | |
The Skin | General Mark Cork | ||
1983 | Local Hero | Felix Happer | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
The Osterman Weekend | CIA Director Maxwell Danforth | ||
1985 | Little Treasure | Delbert Teschemacher | |
1986 | Tough Guys | Harry Doyle | |
1987 | Control | Dr. Herbert Monroe | |
1988 | Rocket Gibraltar | Levi Rockwell | |
The Jeweler's Shop | The Jeweler | ||
1989 | Field of Dreams | Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham |
As producer
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1969 | Sesame Street | Himself | 3 episodes[3] |
1974 | Moses the Lawgiver | Moses | Miniseries |
1978 | America 2-Night | Himself | Parody talk-show |
1978 | Victory at Entebbe | Shimon Peres | TV movie |
1978 | The Unknown War | Narrator | 20 episode USA-USSR archival documentary series on World War II |
1982 | Marco Polo | Teobaldo Visconti (Pope Gregory X) | Miniseries |
The Life of Verdi | Narrator (English version) | Miniseries | |
1985 | Scandal Sheet | Harold Fallen | TV movie |
Circus of the Stars | Ringmaster/himself | Variety Special[4] | |
1986 | On Wings of Eagles | Colonel Arthur D. "Bull" Simons | Miniseries |
Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy | Geheimrat Carl Julius Deutz | Miniseries | |
Barnum | Phineas Taylor "P.T." Barnum | TV movie | |
1989 | Cops | Narrator | Provided narration on pilot episode: "Broward County, Florida 1" |
The Betrothed | Cardinal Federigo Borromeo | Miniseries | |
1990 | The Phantom of the Opera | Gerard Carriere | Miniseries Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair | Leon Klinghoffer | Miniseries | |
1991 | Separate but Equal | John W. Davis | Miniseries |
References
- ^ "AFI's 50 GREATEST AMERICAN SCREEN LEGENDS" Archived February 22, 2019, at the Wayback Machine American Film Institute. Retrieved: December 7, 2016.
- ^ "6th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved December 27, 2009.
- ^ "Sesame Street - Burt Lancaster (1969)" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ Terrace, Vincent (2013-06-06). Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012, 2d ed. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1240-9.
External links
- Burt Lancaster at IMDb
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- Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
- The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
- Ten Tall Men (1951)
- The First Time (1952)
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
- Apache (1954)
- Vera Cruz (1954)
- Marty (1955)
- The Kentuckian (1955)
- Trapeze (1956)
- The Bachelor Party (1957)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Soundtrack) (1957)
- Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- The Rabbit Trap (1959)
- Cry Tough (1959)
- The Devil's Disciple (1959)
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
- Take a Giant Step (1959)
- The Unforgiven (1960)
- The Young Savages (1961)
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
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