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Nov 13, 2009 · Actor Burt Lancaster dies. On October 20, 1994, Burt Lancaster, a former circus performer who rose to fame as a Hollywood leading man with some 70 movies to his credit, including From Here to ...
God smiled on this date in 1913 when Burt Lancaster was born in New York City. From Irish descent, Lancaster began his career as a circus performer with his strong gymnastics skills. Being exposed to the USO during World War II, Lancaster turned to acting and he is basically self-taught. His first movie turned him into an instant star. His career spanned 43 years from 1946 to 1989. He appeared ...
Oct 20, 1994 · Department. 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 ...
Lancaster was born in New York. After working in a circus, he began his career in Hollywood with The Killers (1946), with Ava Gardner. Next was Brute Force (1947), in which he played Joe Collins, an inmate who plans to rebel against the prison authorities. In the 1950s, he continued to have success in films such as The Flame and the Arrow (1950 ...
Aug 16, 2023 · Burt Lancaster is among the most recognizable and celebrated actors from Hollywood's Golden Age, named the 19th greatest classic actor by the American Film Institute. Performing as a circus ...
Handsome, athletic, confident, and wildly talented, Burt Lancaster acted in some of the finest films and created many indelible characters over his 45 year film career. Lancaster transitioned from leading man to mature character actor, to senior roles flawlessly and always with excellence and style. Here are 40 of his very best films.
Oct 20, 1994 · Biography. Fame came to Burt Lancaster with his first film role, as the doomed Swede in Universal’s "The Killers" (1946), but the former circus acrobat knew better than to leave his career in other hands. After less than two years in Hollywood, Lancaster formed his own production company and took the lead in such popular successes as the ...
