Burt Lancaster's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for November 2 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1961 Best Actor — Elmer Gantry win.

Academy Award record

• 1961 Best Actor — Elmer Gantry

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Burt Lancaster's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Burt Lancaster. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Burt Lancaster in the public record

Initially known for playing tough characters with tender hearts, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in films and television series. Lancaster was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor (winning once), and he also won two BAFTA Awards, one Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor, one Silver Bear, one Volpi Cup and two David di Donatello awards. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Lancaster performed as a circus acrobat in the 1930s. At the age of 32 and after serving in World War II, he landed a role in a Broadway play and drew the attention of a Hollywood agent. His appearance in film noir The Killers in 1946 with Ava Gardner was a critical success and launched both of their careers. In 1948, Lancaster starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the commercially and critically acclaimed film Sorry, Wrong Number, where he portrayed the husband to her bedridden invalid character. In 1953, Lancaster played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Burt Lancaster (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 5♦, 3♣, 9♦, 4♥, Q♦, Q♠, J♣, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.

Also on the record

1. A box office smash, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and landed a Best Actor nomination for Lancaster.
2. Later in the 1950s, he starred in The Rainmaker (1956) with Katharine Hepburn, earning a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination, and in 1957 he starred in Gunfight at the O.K.
3. Corral (1957) with frequent co-star Kirk Douglas.
4. During the 1950s, his production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster was highly successful, with Lancaster acting in films such as: Trapeze (1956), a box office smash in which he used his acrobatic skills and for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor; Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a dark drama now considered a classic; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), a World War II submarine drama with Clark Gable; and Separate Tables (1958), a hotel-set drama which received seven Oscar nominations.

Other winners with this card

• Cate Blanchett — 2014 Best Actress — Blue Jasmine
• Charlton Heston — 1960 Best Actor — Ben-Hur
• Dustin Hoffman — 1980 Best Actor — Kramer vs. Kramer; 1989 Best Actor — Rain Man
• Robert Donat — 1940 Best Actor — Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Sidney Poitier — 1964 Best Actor — Lilies of the Field
• Susan Sarandon — 1996 Best Actress — Dead Man Walking

FAQ

What is Burt Lancaster's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. November 2 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Burt Lancaster's dates come from?

Birth date 1913-11-02 is the day-precision date on Burt Lancaster's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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