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Great Lives: Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Burt Lancaster

Broadcaster Gerry Anderson chooses Hollywood legend, Burt Lancaster.

4 Extra Debut. Gerry Anderson chooses a circus performer who became a Hollywood legend, Burt Lancaster. With Humphrey Carpenter. From 2004.

Broadcaster Gerry Anderson chooses a legend of cinema. 

Actor Burt Lancaster started as a circus performer and became the biggest Hollywood star of his time. 

He could be as sinister as Cagney, as sensitive as Brando and as swashbuckling as Flynn - but the only role he ever played was himself.

Gerry Anderson - also famous for being himself - discusses the star's complex talent and complicated life.

Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.

With Burt Lancaster's biographer, Kate Buford.

Producer: Peter Everett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2004.

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