Burt Lancaster Movie Rankings
1
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 3.8338 out of 4 stars for Sweet Smell of Success
3.8338
J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), the most prestigious newspaper columnist in New York, recruits shady press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) to ruin the reputation of jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Martin Milner) who has begun to date Hunsecker’s sister. ... more about Sweet Smell of Success
DVD from $4.00 
(7 sellers)
2
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 3.2374 out of 4 stars for From Here to Eternity
3.2374
An all-star cast brought what was considered an unfilmable novel to the screen with skill and grace with this story of the loves, hopes, and dreams of those in a close-knit Army barracks in Hawaii... ... more about From Here to Eternity
Actor Awards
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $3.95 
(7 sellers)
3
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 3.1809 out of 4 stars for Field of Dreams
3.1809
An Iowa farmer begins to hear a voice telling him to build a baseball field. When his task is accomplished the seven, ban Chicago White Socks from 1919 use the field to play the game they love. ... more about Field of Dreams
DVD from $3.46 
(5 sellers)
4
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 3.0845 out of 4 stars for Local Hero
3.0845
A small Scottish town is more than willing to sell their land when a big oil company shows interest in the property. However, a single loner on the outskirts refuses to sell. ... more about Local Hero
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $3.60 
(6 sellers)
5
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 3.0390 out of 4 stars for Killers
3.0390
Two killers role into a small town and kill a local gas-station attendant known as "The Swede" (Burt Lancaster), who seems to have been expecting their visit. ... more about Killers
DVD from $19.99 
(4 sellers)
6
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 3.0357 out of 4 stars for Swimmer
3.0357
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friends pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. ... more about Swimmer
DVD from $5.99 
(0 sellers)
7
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.9826 out of 4 stars for Crimson Pirate
2.9826
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. ... more about Crimson Pirate
DVD from $19.99 
(0 sellers)
8
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.9753 out of 4 stars for Leopard
2.9753
In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. ... more about Leopard
DVD from $24.99 
(4 sellers)
9
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.9682 out of 4 stars for Seven Days in May
2.9682
In the near future, the President of the United States discovers a miltary coup is being plotted by one of his Joint Chiefs and must find a way to dismantle it. ... more about Seven Days in May
DVD from $5.79 
(4 sellers)
10
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.8728 out of 4 stars for Judgment at Nuremberg
2.8728
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. ... more about Judgment at Nuremberg
DVD from $5.99 
(6 sellers)
11
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.8667 out of 4 stars for Brute Force
2.8667
At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. ... more about Brute Force
DVD from $19.99 
(3 sellers)
12
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.8496 out of 4 stars for Atlantic City
2.8496
Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her husband turns up with drugs he has stolen from the Mafia. ... more about Atlantic City
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
Genie Awards - Best Performance by a Foreign Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $5.56 
(5 sellers)
13
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.8180 out of 4 stars for Criss Cross
2.8180
Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. ... more about Criss Cross
DVD from $4.48 
(7 sellers)
14
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.7588 out of 4 stars for Child Is Waiting
2.7588
Jean Hansen comes to a school for disabled children to work there as a teacher. She becomes especially interested in young Reuben, whose parents have not visited him for several years. But the school principal, Dr. ... more about Child Is Waiting
Not Available on DVD
15
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.7486 out of 4 stars for Professionals
2.7486
A rich Texan, J.W. Grant, selects three men and invites them to his private train to offer them a contract: Rescue his wife who has been kidnapped by a Mexican revolutionary. ... more about Professionals
DVD from $3.95 
(6 sellers)
16
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.7223 out of 4 stars for Birdman of Alcatraz
2.7223
As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. ... more about Birdman of Alcatraz
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
Venice Film Festival - Best Actor
DVD from $5.99 
(3 sellers)
17
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.7120 out of 4 stars for Elmer Gantry
2.7120
Elmer Gantry, salesman, teams up with Sister Sharon Falconer, evangelist, to sell religion to America in the 1920's. They make enough money to build a temple, and Sister Sharon falls for Elmer. ... more about Elmer Gantry
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $6.05 
(6 sellers)
18
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.7000 out of 4 stars for All My Sons
2.7000
All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused ... more about All My Sons
Not Available on DVD
19
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.6855 out of 4 stars for Come Back
2.6855
For two decades Doc and Lola Delaney avoided coming to terms with what Doc considered a "shot gun" marriage. Lola lost the baby and gives a lot of her affection to Sheba, a dog that disappeared a few months before the film opens. ... more about Come Back
DVD from $4.94 
(5 sellers)
20
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.6658 out of 4 stars for Separate Tables
2.6658
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. ... more about Separate Tables
DVD from $6.62 
(0 sellers)
21
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.5878 out of 4 stars for Osterman Weekend
2.5878
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel. ... more about Osterman Weekend
DVD from $5.49 
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22
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.5731 out of 4 stars for Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
2.5731
After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. ... more about Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Actor Awards
Laurel Awards - Top Male Action Star
DVD from $3.66 
(4 sellers)
23
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.5718 out of 4 stars for Sorry
2.5718
In director Anatole Litvak's superb thriller SORRY, WRONG NUMBER, Barbara Stanwyck stars as the alluring, wealthy, and irritating Leona Stevenson, a hypochondriac whose psychosomatic illness has her bedridden. Leona's only lifeline is the telephone, which she uses to excess. ... more about Sorry
DVD from $4.94 
(5 sellers)
24
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.5294 out of 4 stars for Castle Keep
2.5294
Toward the end of World War II, a small company of American GI's occupy an ancient castle. Their commander has an affair with the countess in resident. One guy falls in love with a Volkswagon. A baker among them moves in with another baker's wife. ... more about Castle Keep
DVD from $2.99 
(6 sellers)
25
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.4925 out of 4 stars for Airport
2.4925
Mel Bakersfeld is the hard-charging manager of Lincoln International Airport, trying to keep his airport open despite a raging Midwestern snowstorm and an angry wife. ... more about Airport
DVD from $9.99 
(5 sellers)
26
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.4661 out of 4 stars for Island of Dr. Moreau
2.4661
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings. ... more about Island of Dr. Moreau
Actor Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor - Science Fiction
DVD from $3.00 
(6 sellers)
27
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.4400 out of 4 stars for Apache
2.4400
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. Instead, he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. ... more about Apache
DVD from $3.00 
(2 sellers)
28
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.4396 out of 4 stars for Train
2.4396
Oberst von Waldheim wants to bring modern paintings, the ones the Nazis called "degenerated", out of Paris before the Allied Forces liberate Paris. He is able to persuade his bosses to give him the train. ... more about Train
DVD from $8.97 
(3 sellers)
29
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.4137 out of 4 stars for Ulzana's Raid
2.4137
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. ... more about Ulzana's Raid
DVD from $669.37 
(0 sellers)
30
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.3617 out of 4 stars for Scorpio
2.3617
Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias "Scorpio", a gifted free-lance operative. ... more about Scorpio
DVD from $4.76 
(4 sellers)
31
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.3507 out of 4 stars for Unforgiven
2.3507
Odd Western about racial intolerance focuses around Kiawa claim that the Zachary daughter is one of their own, stolen in a raid. The disupute results in other whites' turning their backs on the Zacharys when the truth is revealed by Mother. ... more about Unforgiven
DVD from $5.99 
(4 sellers)
32
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.3369 out of 4 stars for Buffalo Bill and the Indians
2.3369
Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer. ... more about Buffalo Bill and the Indians
DVD from $5.25 
(6 sellers)
33
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.2938 out of 4 stars for Scalphunters
2.2938
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. ... more about Scalphunters
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(5 sellers)
34
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.2920 out of 4 stars for List of Adrian Messenger
2.2920
Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. ... more about List of Adrian Messenger
Not Available on DVD
36
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.2016 out of 4 stars for Vengeance Valley
2.2016
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. ... more about Vengeance Valley
DVD from $0.01 
(3 sellers)
37
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.1438 out of 4 stars for Flame and the Arrow
2.1438
Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. ... more about Flame and the Arrow
Not Available on DVD
38
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.0728 out of 4 stars for Hallelujah Trail
2.0728
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo. ... more about Hallelujah Trail
DVD from $2.93 
(4 sellers)
39
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.0646 out of 4 stars for Kentuckian
2.0646
A frontiersman in 1820s Kentucky finds the area too civilized for his tastes, so he makes plans for he and his son to leave for the wild Texas country. ... more about Kentuckian
DVD from $2.00 
(6 sellers)
40
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 2.0050 out of 4 stars for Twilight's Last Gleaming
2.0050
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War ... more about Twilight's Last Gleaming
Not Available on DVD
42
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.9571 out of 4 stars for Conversation Piece
1.9571
Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper floor ... more about Conversation Piece
Actor Awards
David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
Not Available on DVD
43
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.9551 out of 4 stars for Ten Tall Men
1.9551
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. ... more about Ten Tall Men
Not Available on DVD
44
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.8489 out of 4 stars for Tough Guys
1.8489
Harry and Archie are released from prison ready to collect their Social Security. ... more about Tough Guys
Not Available on DVD
45
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.8363 out of 4 stars for Vera Cruz
1.8363
Ben Trane and Joe Erin, two rival soldiers of fortune who team to fight for the highest bidder. ... more about Vera Cruz
DVD from $3.91 
(0 sellers)
46
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.8354 out of 4 stars for Gypsy Moths
1.8354
On a 4th of July weekend, three barnstorming skydivers arrive to perform in a small Kansas town. They are hosted by the youngest member Webson's (Wilson) aunt, the unhappily married Elizabeth (Kerr). ... more about Gypsy Moths
DVD from $3.58 
(1 sellers)
47
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.8138 out of 4 stars for Cassandra Crossing
1.8138
"Outbreak" meets "The Runaway Train" as a motley group of passengers are quarantined on a train destined to prevent the spread of the disease at the cost of their lives. ... more about Cassandra Crossing
DVD from $4.99 
(4 sellers)
49
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.7716 out of 4 stars for I Walk Alone
1.7716
Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. ... more about I Walk Alone
Not Available on DVD
50
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.7716 out of 4 stars for Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1.7716
Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. ... more about Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
Not Available on DVD
51
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.6902 out of 4 stars for Devil's Disciple
1.6902
The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War. ... more about Devil's Disciple
Not Available on DVD
52
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.6175 out of 4 stars for Go Tell the Spartans
1.6175
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. ... more about Go Tell the Spartans
DVD from $2.35 
(7 sellers)
53
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.5749 out of 4 stars for Valdez Is Coming
1.5749
The town constable, Bob Valdez, is forced to kill someone accused by Frank Tanner of being a murderer. Valdez asks Tanner for monetary help for the man's wife, but he is ridiculed and almost killed by Tanner's henchmen. ... more about Valdez Is Coming
DVD from $5.50 
(5 sellers)
54
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.5386 out of 4 stars for Young Savages
1.5386
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three Italian teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts are the case aren't exactly as they seem to be. ... more about Young Savages
Not Available on DVD
55
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.4574 out of 4 stars for Rose Tattoo
1.4574
An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. ... more about Rose Tattoo
DVD from $4.94 
(4 sellers)
56
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.4163 out of 4 stars for Rainmaker
1.4163
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. ... more about Rainmaker
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $4.94 
(5 sellers)
57
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.4071 out of 4 stars for Run Silent Run Deep
1.4071
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. ... more about Run Silent Run Deep
DVD from $3.97 
(5 sellers)
58
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.1377 out of 4 stars for Jim Thorpe -- All-American
1.1377
True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. ... more about Jim Thorpe -- All-American
Not Available on DVD
59
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 1.0315 out of 4 stars for Ali
1.0315
Not Available on DVD
63
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Desert Fury
0.0001
Fritzi Haller is a powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter Paula (having quit school) returns at the same time as racketeer Eddie Bendix, who left under suspicion of murdering his wife. ... more about Desert Fury
Not Available on DVD
64
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Control
0.0001
An experiment of psychological effects under stressfull conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine. ... more about Control
Not Available on DVD
65
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for His Majesty O'Keefe
0.0001
In 1870, Yankee sea captain O'Keefe finds himself stranded after a mutiny on the Micronesian island of Yap, where the financial potential of copra (dried cocoanut) excites him. But a German company already has a monopoly... ... more about His Majesty O'Keefe
Not Available on DVD
68
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Mister 880
0.0001
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years. ... more about Mister 880
Not Available on DVD
69
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for The Skin
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
70
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rocket Gibraltar
0.0001
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. ... more about Rocket Gibraltar
DVD from $7.73 
(6 sellers)
71
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rope of Sand
0.0001
Two years ago, hunting guide Mike Davis was with a client who trespassed on diamond company land and found a rich lode; Paul Vogel, sadistic commandant of company police, beat Mike nearly to death but failed to learn the location. ... more about Rope of Sand
Not Available on DVD
72
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for South Sea Woman
0.0001
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. ... more about South Sea Woman
Not Available on DVD
73
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Trapeze
0.0001
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act. ... more about Trapeze
Actor Awards
Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
Not Available on DVD
74
Burt Lancaster scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Variety Girl
0.0001
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick ... more about Variety Girl
Not Available on DVD
 
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Burt Lancaster
Birthdate:
November 2, 1913
Death date:
October 20, 1994

Burt Lancaster

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1940s
10
total ranking of 2.8261  2.8261
1950s
21
total ranking of 2.6877  2.6877
1960s
16
total ranking of 2.9686  2.9686
1970s
16
total ranking of 2.2905  2.2905
1980s
11
total ranking of 2.6664  2.6664
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
3.1976
Burt Lancaster is ranked overall as 3.1976 of of 4 stars
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