BURT LANCASTER NEAR 60 -- HONEST!

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300210011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 9, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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,~1UL 91972
By SIDNEY EDWARDS
(London Expr?sf)
LONDON - When V i s c o n t i
directed ilurt Lancaster in The
Leopard he described him like this:
"The most perfectly mysterious man
I've ever met."
Thera was' more than an element
of mystery Involved In meeting Mr.
Lancaster this week. No one actually
put on a blindfold but I had to meet
at a rendezvous, a hotel, about 500
yards away from the house in which
he is staying. Ilion escorted through
back streets.
to preserve the
anonymity of his whoreaboutti
(although It you are out early in Hyde
Paid:, you mf ght meet him jogging In
a blue track cult),
The setting is aristocratic: a black
Rolls at the door, cold paintings on
the walls of the beautifully furnished
drawhig room. One ashtray is crowd
C.d. with cigarette ends. "I stayed up
until 4 nan. trying to adjust to the
time change from New York. I finally
Cot to rl~rp and 1. feel much better."
It was mid-morning and ho had
just got up, Ho wee rearing his track
cult and a blue, un haven chin to
onto the carpet. 71e frame is large,
the shoulders broad. The eyes are
bright blue, which you don't quite
expect.
He will be 50 next y(,ar. I say
he looks pretty fit. "You r"' ,in for
an old man?" he tasks r.milingiy. I
say, no, I didn't mean that.
"I have to act in), rage. No more
love scenes in films. I'd look rather
silly making love Co a 39-year-old girl.
It's character parts from now on."
He talks crisply in the deep voice.
He Is rather cool and serious.
A character p rt has brought him
/
to London. Ile plays tin ageing CIA/
agent in Mich :cal Winner's film,
Scorpio. Location shots wore done in
Washington It t s oak but the scenes
ostensibly Inside the CIA lieadquar- t/
tors will bo shot in en Yoffico. block
at Hemel Ilempstead.
His co-str.r is Paul S(~ofleld, who
plays a iuaslr:n tagent. 'I ey last
worked together ea the filr~l_ 11ie
Train. Letnraster says ho admires ?
Scofield very mm)uch. "I'm to movie
star: Ile's a great actor. That's the
difference.
at Salzburg from Vienna
Olympics."
Then he fixes you with the blue"
eyes,'tllo whole f ft. 2 In, frame looks
a ahad~- overbearing And h
"Do you have any influe.nco in this,
town, Mr. Edwards?" I t;rti:y no, then
he says he. s ants a. ticket to leer
the Nilsson-Sold piforinanco o f
lc.ktra at Covent Card, n, also Jon
Vickei to in Otello.
Me f?ays his one ambition in life
had been to be an opera Ling, r.
,,Ever since I sang in the church
choir as a boy. Then the voice broke
and I've spent the rest o2 my Iii
searching for it."
W e talk for a while about his early
days In New Yet,)',. "I lived en 10,501
Street, tz avid' block-.' entral Par'.;
was five minutes tai ay to play In.
I spent most of ray time in the library
on 110th Street,
"l'iy father worked in the post of-
fice. He i;icdo 40 deb r r1 , e , a
fortune In ik)r co edatyE. I win hraiC:ed
down clothes. It didn't 11reties, Those
things arc, unimportant.
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