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Oct 30, 2018. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Sentenced to life in solitary confinement after killing a prison guard, despondent inmate Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) combats loneliness and tedium by...
Jul 27, 2023 · Who is the Birdman of Alcatraz? In 1909, Robert Stroud was just eighteen. Though young, Stroud had already embarked on the path that would eventually land him in the United States’ most notorious penitentiary. In January of 1909, Stroud was acting as a “pimp” in Juneau, Alaska for a woman named Kitty O’Brien who was almost twenty years his senior.
Birdman of Alcatraz, American dramatic film, released in 1962, that made a household name of convicted murderer Robert Stroud, the so-called “Birdman of Alcatraz.” The film is a sentimentalized look at Stroud (played by Burt Lancaster), who became a self-taught ornithologist during his 54 years in prison.
