Biography Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (Season 8, Episode 38)
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Biography

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (Season 8, Episode 38)

TV-14

TV Episode | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Born November 2, 1913, he went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster - later Burt Lancaster - was one of five children of a New York City postal...See moreBorn November 2, 1913, he went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster - later Burt Lancaster - was one of five children of a New York City postal worker. Burt recalled family life as warm and mutually supportive. At the Union Settlement House, he and boyhood friend Nick Cravat formed an acrobatic team. By eighteen, Burt was 6'2'' and blessed with the athletic physique and dynamic good looks that helped make him famous. A basketball scholarship was not enough to keep him in NYU beyond his sophomore year. That's when he and the 5'2'' Cravat joined a circus, earning $3 weekly between them. A stint in the Army introduced Burt to acting and led him to Hollywood where his first release, The Killers (1946), propelled him to stardom at age 32. He took control of his own career and seldom faltered. He was married three times and had five children. Upon his death in 1994, four-time Academy Award-nominated Burt Lancaster was acknowledged as one of the greatest stars in the Hollywood firmament. Written by Zara Janson See less

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12 cast members

Name	Known for
Ernest Borgnine Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Marty (1955)
Jeff Corey Self Self See fewer	Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Rhonda Fleming Self Self See fewer	Out of the Past (1947)
James Hill Self Self See fewer	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Earl Holliman Self Self See fewer	Forbidden Planet (1956)
Burt Lancaster Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	From Here to Eternity (1953)
Delbert Mann Self Self See fewer	Marty (1955)
Virginia Mayo Self Self See fewer	White Heat (1949)
Terry Moore Self Self See fewer	Peyton Place (1957)
Sydney Pollack Self Self See fewer	Tootsie (1982)
Ted Post Self Self See fewer	Magnum Force (1973)
Peter Riegert Self Self See fewer	The Mask (1994)