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Burt Lancaster Acting Filmography (121)

Airports
2025
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
2023·Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
2022·Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
2019·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017·Self - Actor (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016·Self (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014·Self (archive footage)
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010·Self
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
2009·Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
2008·Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005·Self (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti
2002·Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997·Self (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996·Self (archive footage)
La Classe américaine
1993·José (archive footage)
Movie Tough Guys
1991·Self (archive footage)
Separate But Equal
1991·John W. Davis
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991·Self (archive footage)
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990·Leon Klinghoffer
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
1990·Self - Narrator
Field of Dreams
1989·Doc "Moonlight" Graham
The Jeweller's Shop
1989·The Jeweller
Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South
1989·Self
Rocket Gibraltar
1988·Levi Rockwell
Control
1987·Dr. Herbert Monroe
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987·Self
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
1987·Self - Host, Narrator
Tough Guys
1986·Harry Doyle
Barnum
1986·PT Barnum
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
1986·Self
Little Treasure
1985·Delbert Teschmacher
Scandal Sheet
1985·Harold Fallen
Local Hero
1983·Felix Happer
The Osterman Weekend
1983·Maxwell Danforth
The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
1983·Self
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983·Self
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982·(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
I Love Liberty
1982·Self
Race to Oblivion
1982·Self - Host / Narrator
Night of 100 Stars
1982·Self
The Skin
1981·Generale Clark
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981·Bill Doolin
Atlantic City
1980·Lou
Zulu Dawn
1979·Col. Anthony Durnford
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979·Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979
Go Tell the Spartans
1978·Maj. Asa Barker
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1977·Dr. Paul Moreau
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977·Gen. Lawrence Dell
Moses the Lawgiver
1976·Moses
1900
1976·Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder
Victory at Entebbe
1976·Shimon Peres
The Cassandra Crossing
1976·Col. Stephen Mackenzie
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976·The Legend Maker (Ned Buntline)
The Fighters
1974·Narrator
Conversation Piece
1974·Professor
The Midnight Man
1974·Jim Slade
Executive Action
1973·Farrington
Scorpio
1973·Cross
Ulzana's Raid
1972·McIntosh
Valdez Is Coming
1971·Valdez
Lawman
1971·Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox
Fight of the Century
1971·Self - Presenter
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I
1971
Airport
1970·Mel Bakersfeld
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970·Self (archive footage)
Castle Keep
1969·Maj. Abraham Falconer
The Gypsy Moths
1969·Mike Rettig
Jenny is a Good Thing
1969·Narrator
The Sky Divers
1969·Self
Big Game America
1969·Narrator
The Scalphunters
1968·Joe Bass
The Swimmer
1968·Ned Merrill
The Professionals
1966·Dolworth
Games in Depth
1966·Self
The Hallelujah Trail
1965·Col. Thaddeus P. Gearhart
The Train
1964·Paul Labiche
Seven Days in May
1964·Gen. James Mattoon Scott
The Leopard
1963·Prince Fabrizio Corbera of Salina
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963·Protester
A Child Is Waiting
1963·Matthew Clark
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962·Robert Stroud
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961·Ernst Janning
The Young Savages
1961·Hank Bell
Elmer Gantry
1960·Elmer Gantry
The Unforgiven
1960·Ben Zachary
The Devil's Disciple
1959·Anthony Anderson
Separate Tables
1958·John Malcolm
Run Silent, Run Deep
1958·Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Sweet Smell of Success
1957·J.J. Hunsecker
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957·Marshal Wyatt Earp
Trapeze
1956·Mike Ribble
The Rainmaker
1956·Bill Starbuck
The Kentuckian
1955·Elias Wakefield
The Rose Tattoo
1955·Alvaro Mangiacavallo
Vera Cruz
1954·Joe Erin
Apache
1954·Massai
His Majesty O'Keefe
1954·Capt. David Dion O'Keefe
From Here to Eternity
1953·1st Sgt. Milton Warden
Three Sailors and a Girl
1953·Marine (uncredited)
Come Back, Little Sheba
1953·Doc Delaney
South Sea Woman
1953·Sgt. James O'Hearn
The Crimson Pirate
1952·Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)
Jim Thorpe – All-American
1951·Jim Thorpe
Vengeance Valley
1951·Owen Daybright
Ten Tall Men
1951·Sergeant Mike Kincaid
The Screen Director
1951·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Flame and the Arrow
1950·Dardo Bartoli
Mister 880
1950·Steve Buchanan
Criss Cross
1949·Steve Thompson
Rope of Sand
1949·Michael (Mike) Davis
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1948·William Earle 'Bill' Saunders
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948·Henry Stevenson
All My Sons
1948·Chris Keller
I Walk Alone
1947·Frankie Madison
Desert Fury
1947·Tom Hanson
Brute Force
1947·Joe Collins
Variety Girl
1947·Burt Lancaster
The Killers
1946·'Swede' Andersen