Burt Lancaster and Norma Anderson - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos Burt Lancaster. By Edduin Carvajal. Seeking answers, Lancaster's three daughters and grown granddaughter have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging that these well-known movies along with nine others were . In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. Like me, he didnt have a lot of small talk. In 1985, Lancasterteamed up with his old friend Kirk Douglas for the comedy Tough Guys, about two ageing train robbers. In 1968, Lancaster was elected to serve as chairman of the Roger Baldwin Foundation, a newly formed fund-raising arm of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. I had a wonderful time touring North Africa, Italy and Austria as page-turner for a soldier pianist, he joked. . She admittedshe had hurled a horrible insult at Lancaster, shouting You washed-up old f--! at him, during a brawl that left both with bloody cuts. His father was a postal clerk of Irish extraction, and his fierce mother Lizzie once savagely thrashed her young child for bringing back the wrong change from a grocery store. Burt Lancaster. Joanna expressed some surprise at this, as she found the mysterious, modernist film often connects most strongly with men in their forties who are experiencing a midlife crisis. Eight of these were co-produced by James Hill. Roland Kibbee also produced three Lancaster films, and Lancaster was also cast in two Stanley Kramer productions. Lancaster re-teamed with Tony Curtis in 1957 for Sweet Smell of Success, a co-production between Hecht-Hill-Lancaster and Curtis' own company with wife Janet Leigh, Curtleigh Productions. [58], In 1947, Lancaster reportedly signed a statement release by the National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions (NCASP) asking Congress to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Rt Hon Alistair Burt on Twitter: "RT @LancasterUni: Research by