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Burt Lancaster Anna Magnani gently holds Burt Lancaster's face as they lie close together, sharing an intimate and emotional moment in The Rose Tattoo. lobby card for I Walk Alone Yvonne De Carlo and Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross Burt Lancaster lying in bed and Shirley Booth sitting on the edge, smiling, in a bedroom scene from the film Come Back Little Sheba (1952). Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster as Bill Dolworth crouches against red rocks, holding a revolver and smiling, in a scene from the western film The Professionals (1966). Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster in Come Back, Little Sheba Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster sit at a restaurant table in a black-and-white publicity still from the film Sweet Smell of Success, with Curtis looking at Lancaster, who holds a cigarette.
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Burt Lancaster: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Independent - Burt Lancaster: The last real action hero. Jul 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. Oct 29, 2025
Anniversary information added. Oct 16, 2025
Add new Web site: Australian Centre for the Moving Image - Soft and Hard: The high-wire career of Burt Lancaster. Jun 21, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - On Screen - Screen icon Burt Lancaster. Feb 12, 2025
Add new Web site: Independent - Burt Lancaster: The last real action hero. Sep 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Harvard Film Archive - A Burt Lancaster Centennial Tribute. Jun 21, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Burt Lancaster. Aug 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Golden Globes - Biography of Burt Lancaster. Mar 14, 2021
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Burt Lancaster. Mar 14, 2021
Added cross-references. Mar 26, 2020
Added length of the theatrical run of A Sound of Hunting (1945). Dec 11, 2017
Add new Web site: The Washington Post - Oscar Winner Burt Lancaster Dies. Jan 19, 2017
Add new Web site: The Telegraph - Obituary of Burt Lancaster. Jan 19, 2017
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Burt Lancaster, Rugged Circus Acrobat Turned Hollywood Star, Is Dead at 80. Jan 19, 2017
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - Oscar Winner Burt Lancaster Dies at 80. Jan 19, 2017
Added photographs. Jun 03, 2015
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Burt Lancaster. Mar 27, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Burt Lancaster. Mar 27, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Burt Lancaster Profile. Aug 05, 2010
Media added. Sep 22, 2008
Media added. Dec 21, 2006
Article revised. Jan 05, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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