Won Golden Boot Awards (1995).
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Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen Lancaster was an American actor. Initially known for playing tough characters with tender hearts, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in films and television series. Lancaster was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and he also won two BAFTA Awards, one Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor, one Silver Be…
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Born 2 November 1913 · Died 20 October 1994 · Q160528
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1995· 1 entry
1994· 1 entry
Died 1994-10-20.
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1990· 1 entry
Forced him to retire; four years later he died from a heart attack
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1989· 1 entry
In which he played a supporting role as Moonlight Graham
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1986· 1 entry
For German TV; 1987's Control made in Italy; Rocket Gibraltar in 1988, and The Jeweller's Shop in 1989
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1985· 2 entries
Lancaster joined the fight against AIDS after fellow movie star Rock Hudson contracted the disease
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Directed by Alan Sharp, who had written Ulzana's Raid; On Wings of Eagles for TV in 1986, as Bull Simons; 1986's made for TV Barnum starred him in the title role; Tough Guys reunited him on the big screen with Kirk Dougl
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1983· 1 entry
But he was the lead in the TV movie Scandal Sheet in 1985
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1981· 1 entry
The Skin in 1982 with Cardinale, Marco Polo, also in 1982, and Local Hero in 1983
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1980· 1 entry
With the crime-romance Atlantic City, winning the BAFTA for Best Actor and landing his fourth Oscar nomination
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1978· 1 entry
A Vietnam War film; Lancaster admired the script so much that he took a reduced fee and donated money to help the movie to be completed
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1977· 2 entries
And had the title role in 1977's The Island of Dr
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And had a supporting role in The Cassandra Crossing in 1976
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1974· 3 entries
Starred in another Visconti film, Conversation Piece
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And played the title role in the TV series Moses the Lawgiver, also in 1974
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With The Midnight Man, which he also wrote and produced with Kibee
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1971· 1 entry
Directed by Michael Winner; Valdez Is Coming in 1971, for Norlan; and Ulzana's Raid in 1972, directed by Aldrich and produced by himself and Hecht
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1970· 2 entries
Starring alongside Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Van Heflin, Helen Hayes, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Hale, Jean Seberg, and Jacqueline Bisset
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Lancaster starred in the box-office hit, air-disaster drama Airport
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1968· 1 entry
Lancaster actively supported the presidential candidacy of anti-war Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, and frequently spoke on his behalf during the Democratic primaries
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1967· 1 entry
Lancaster formed a new partnership with Roland Kibbee, who had already worked as a writer on five Lancaster projects: Ten Tall Men, The Crimson Pirate, Three Sailors and a Girl (in which Lancaster made a cameo appearance
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1966· 2 entries
At the age of 52, Lancaster appeared nude in director Frank Perry's film The Swimmer (1968), in what the critic Roger Ebert called "his finest performance"
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Played an explosives expert in the western The Professionals
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1964· 1 entry
Played a US Air Force general who, opposed by a colonel played by Douglas, tries to overthrow the President in Seven Days in May
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1963· 1 entry
Lancaster traveled to Italy to star as an Italian prince in Visconti's epic period drama The Leopard
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1962· 1 entry
Earned the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and his third Oscar nomination
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Elmer Gantry (1961).
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In the all-star war crimes trial film Judgment at Nuremberg
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1960· 2 entries
Won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor
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After Hill ruptured his relationship with both Hecht and Lancaster
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1957· 2 entries
For Sweet Smell of Success, a co-production between Hecht-Hill-Lancaster and Curtis' own company with wife Janet Leigh, Curtleigh Productions
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"[a]fter the independent production of a baker's dozen of pictures, it has yet to have its first flop
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1956· 2 entries
Lancaster and Hecht partnered with Loring Buzzell and entered the music industry with the music publishing companies Leigh Music, Hecht-Lancaster & Buzzell Music, Calyork Music and Colby Music and the record labels Calyo
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With Lancaster performing many of his own stunts
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1955· 3 entries
Starring with Anna Magnani and Daniel Mann directing
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Based on Paddy Chayefsky's TV play starring Ernest Borgnine and directed by Delbert Mann
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Hill was made an equal partner in Hecht-Lancaster, with his name added to the production company
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1954· 2 entries
For his own company, Lancaster produced and starred in His Majesty O'Keefe, a South Sea island tale shot in Fiji
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Vera Cruz, co-starring Gary Cooper and produced by Hill
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1953· 1 entry
Lancaster played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity
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1951· 2 entries
The actor/producer duo changed the company's name to Hecht-Lancaster Productions
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Then he went to Warners to play the title role in the biopic Jim Thorpe – All-American, also in 1951
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1950· 1 entry
A comedy crime romance film with Edmund Gwenn
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1948· 3 entries
Lancaster starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the commercially and critically acclaimed film Sorry, Wrong Number, where he portrayed the husband to her bedridden invalid character
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With Joan Fontaine and directed by Norman Foster
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Lancaster had a change of pace with the film adaptation of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, made at Universal Pictures with Edward G
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1947· 4 entries
Where Lancaster was billed after John Hodiak and Lizabeth Scott
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I Walk Alone, co-starring Lizabeth Scott and a young Kirk Douglas, who was also under contract to Wallis
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Lancaster reportedly signed a statement release by the National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions (NCASP) asking Congress to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
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A prison drama written by Richard Brooks and directed by Jules Dassin
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1946· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1946).
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With Ava Gardner was a critical success and launched both of their careers
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1939· 1 entry
An injury forced Lancaster to give up the profession, with great regret
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1913· 2 entries
Born 1913-11-02.
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In New York City, at his parents' home at 209 East 106th Street, the son of Elizabeth (née Roberts) and mailman James Lancaster
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