Burt Lancaster
Lancaster performed as a circus acrobat in the 1930s. At the age of 32, and after serving in World War II, he landed a role in a Broadway play and drew the attention of a Hollywood agent. His breakthrough role was in the film noir ''The Killers'' in 1946 alongside Ava Gardner. A critical success, it launched both of their careers. Not long after in 1948, 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. 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.
Later in the 1950s, he starred in ''The Rainmaker'' (1956), with Katharine Hepburn, earning a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination, and in 1957 he starred in ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'' (1957) 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'' (1956), a box office smash in which he used his acrobatic skills and for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor; ''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 Visconti's epic period drama ''The Leopard''. In 1964, he played a US Air Force General who, opposed by a Colonel played by Douglas, tries to overthrow the President in ''Seven Days in May''. Then, in 1966, he played an explosives expert in the western ''The Professionals''. Although the reception of his 1968 film ''The Swimmer'' was initially lackluster upon release, in the years after it has grown in stature critically and attained a cult following.
In 1970, Lancaster starred in the box-office hit, air-disaster drama ''Airport''. In 1974 he again starred in a Visconti film, ''Conversation Piece''. 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''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Brute force / Mark Hellinger Productions ; directed by Jules Dassin ; produced by Mark Hellinger.
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Separate but equal / a New Liberty production in association with Republic Pictures ; a George Stevens, Jr. production ; written and directed by George Stevens, Jr.
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The Cassandra crossing / International Film Productions.
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Valdez is coming / United Artists ; a Norlan-Ira Steiner production ; screenplay by Roland Kibbee and David Rayfiel ; produced by Ira Steiner ; directed by Edwin Sherin.
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A child is waiting / Stanley Kramer presents ; a United Artists release ; screenplay by Abby Mann ; produced by Stanley Kramer ; directed by John Cassavetes.
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Local hero / an Enigma production for Goldcrest ; produced by David Puttnam ; written and directed by Bill Forsyth.
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Moses the law giver / an ITC, RAI co-production ; written by Anthony Burgess, Vittorio Bonicelli, Gianfranco De Bosio ; directed by Gianfranco De Bosio ; produced by Vincenzo Labella.
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Il gattopardo = The leopard. a Titanus production released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. ; produced by Goffredo Lombardo ; directed by Luchino Visconti.
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Atlantic City / Paramount Pictures ; International Cinema Corporation and Selta Films ; written by John Guare ; produced by Denis Heroux ; directed by Louis Malle.
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Trapeze / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; screenplay by James R. Webb ; adaptation by Liam O'Brien ; produced by James Hill ; directed by Carol Reed.
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Novecento / Alberto Grimaldi presenta un film di Bernardo Bertolucci ; una coproduzione PEA Produzioni Europee Associate, les Productions Artistes associés, Artemis Film GmbH ; soggetto e sceneggiatura di Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci ; prodotto da Alberto Grimaldi ; regia di Bernardo Bertolucci.
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Executive action / Warner Bros. Pictures ; National General Pictures in association with Wakeford/Orloff, Inc. ; produced by Edward Lewis ; co-produced by Dan Bessie and Gary Horowitz ; directed by David Miller ; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo.
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The flame and the arrow / Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by Frank Ross and Harld Hecht ; directed by Jacques Tourneur ; written by Waldo Salt. by Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
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The killers ; Criss cross.
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South Sea woman / Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by Sam Bischoff ; directed by Arthur Lubin ; screenplay by Edwin Blum.
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Birdman of Alcatraz : the story of a real and living man-- / United Artists Pictures Inc. ; Harold Hecht presents ; screenplay by Guy Trosper ; produced by Stuart Millar and Guy Trosper ; directed by John Frankenheimer.
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