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Birthdate: November 2, 1913
Death date: October 20, 1994
Burt Lancaster
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
2.9085
10
1950s
2.6848
21
1960s
2.9852
16
1970s
2.2914
16
1980s
2.6652
11
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.2109
3.2109
Burt Lancaster Movie Rankings
1
3.8324J.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 $4.99
(10 sellers)
2
3.2187It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. ...more about From Here to Eternity
Actor Awards
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $3.95
(13 sellers)
3
3.1945An 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 $4.49
(16 sellers)
4
3.1185
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
(1 sellers)
5
3.1017
An unpopular U.S. President manages to get a nuclear disarmament treaty through the Senate, but finds that the nation is turning against him. ...more about Seven Days in May
DVD from $9.76
(10 sellers)
6
3.0801
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 $5.99
(11 sellers)
7
3.0687
Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede," who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. ...more about Killers
DVD from $25.57
(8 sellers)
8
3.0667
Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for he husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. ...more about Sorry
DVD from $4.94
(12 sellers)
9
2.9824
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
(3 sellers)
10
2.9339
Sicily in the 1800s. Prince Salina, a great landowner, has to watch the decrease of his power and influence after 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy. ...more about Leopard
DVD from $29.99
(12 sellers)
11
2.9229
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
(13 sellers)
12
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 $24.99
(11 sellers)
13
2.8451
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
(11 sellers)
14
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 $5.95
(10 sellers)
15
2.7603
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
16
2.7500
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
(10 sellers)
17
2.7238
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 $9.99
(10 sellers)
18
2.7135
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 $9.99
(10 sellers)
19
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
20
2.6853
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
(11 sellers)
21
2.6636
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
(10 sellers)
22
2.5834
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 $9.10
(5 sellers)
23
2.5730
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
(12 sellers)
24
2.5308
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 $3.95
(14 sellers)
25
2.4926
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 $12.95
(10 sellers)
26
2.4674
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 $5.99
(12 sellers)
27
2.4410
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 $9.59
(12 sellers)
28
2.4398
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
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.4150
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. ...more about Ulzana's Raid
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.3630
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 $5.91
(9 sellers)
31
2.3521
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 $6.50
(11 sellers)
32
2.3381
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 $5.50
(11 sellers)
33
2.2952
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
DVD from $6.62
(10 sellers)
34
2.2934
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
2.1994
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 $1.99
(12 sellers)
37
2.1416
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
2.0742
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 $4.86
(12 sellers)
39
2.0625
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 $5.41
(11 sellers)
40
2.0062
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
1.9584
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
1.9529
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
1.8461
Harry and Archie are released from prison ready to collect their Social Security. ...more about Tough Guys
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.8368
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 $3.49
(10 sellers)
46
1.8342
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
(11 sellers)
47
1.8151
"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 $7.14
(10 sellers)
49
1.7716
Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. ...more about I Walk Alone
- Not Available on DVD
50
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
1.6880
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
1.6187
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. ...more about Go Tell the Spartans
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
53
1.5761
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 $9.99
(10 sellers)
54
1.5400
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
1.4552
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
(12 sellers)
56
1.4141
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
(10 sellers)
57
1.4049
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 $5.29
(13 sellers)
58
1.1356
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
63
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
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
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
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
70
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 $10.23
(11 sellers)
71
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
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
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
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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