Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster a presence to be reckoned with

2013-04-03 06:00:00

Burt Lancaster was the first movie star I ever met. I've encountered others since, but the circumstances have never been so dramatic. The year was 1971 and I was a young reporter for the Washington Post covering the Cannes Film Festival on my own dime....

Michael Winner dies at 77; British director of 'Death Wish' films

2013-01-21 16:44:00

Michael Winner, a British film director who specialized in thrillers and action movies, including three "Death Wish" movies, died Monday. He was 77. A bon vivant who became a restaurant critic after his film career wound down, Winner died at his...

PASSINGS: Ronald Dworkin, Alan Sharp

2013-02-16 00:00:00

Ronald Dworkin Constitutional law expert and liberal scholar Ronald Dworkin, 81, an American philosopher, constitutional law expert and liberal scholar who argued that the law should be founded on moral integrity, died Thursday of leukemia in London,...

Burt Lancaster performs wearing peg leg

2013-01-31 00:44:11

Burt Lancaster in hospital

2013-01-14 01:23:14

Huell Howser: Highlights from 'California's Gold' online

2013-01-07 18:50:00

Huell Howser, the public television host of "California's Gold," among other shows, died Sunday at age 67. Even�though there will be no new episodes of his long-running adventures throughout the Golden State (he'd already retired from the show late last...

PASSINGS: Phyllis Thaxter, Ron Nelson

2012-08-16 00:00:00

Phyllis Thaxter Veteran actress played Clark Kent's mother Phyllis Thaxter, 92, an actress who had an active film career in the 1940s and '50s and capped it with her portrayal of Clark Kent's mother in the 1978 version of "Superman," died Tuesday at...

Dale Olson dies at 78; publicity agent for Rock Hudson, other stars

2012-08-10 00:00:00

Dale Olson, an elder statesman of the Hollywood publicity corps whose assignments over a four-decade career included representing Rock Hudson during the last months of the actor's struggle with AIDS, died Thursday of complications of liver cancer. He...

Around Town: Snow White, Casablanca at Oscars Outdoors

2012-06-14 16:39:38

LACMA film series celebrates California noir

2012-05-17 16:38:15

Mike Wallace dies at 93; '60 Minutes' pioneer

2012-04-09 00:00:00

As the self-described "black hat" of television's premier newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Mike Wallace crafted a persona of a probing reporter known for his often caustic questioning of sometimes reluctant guests on the program. Beginning in 1968, as one of...

Virginia Christine, Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner starred in Lancaster's film debut, which was directed by Robert Siodmak.

2013-04-02 20:01:01

Hollywood Unseen Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation Robert Dance Antique Collectors Club Dist, $75 Jimmy Stewart playing with his dogs, Ingrid Bergman fishing and Burt Lancaster playing tennis are just a few of the hundreds in this collection of candid shots from Hollywood's Golden

2012-11-29 12:05:25

Film stars Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster relax on May 19, 1948, in an automobile interior on the set of "Sorry, Wrong Number" in Hollywood.

2012-11-23 16:10:00