Burt Lancaster Leaves Hospital

Actor Burt Lancaster has been released from Los Alamitos Hospital and transfered to an undisclosed location, where he is undergoing extensive physical and speech therapy, hospital officials said Friday.

The 77-year-old Academy Award winner left the hospital Thursday, but officials declined to state where he went or what his condition was when he was released.

Ben Benjamin, Lancaster’s publicist, said the actor’s family has requested that no information about his whereabouts be released.

Lancaster suffered a stroke Nov. 30 while visiting a friend at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer’s disease here.

The stroke reportedly left the onetime circus acrobat with weakness on his right side and some speech difficulties.

Lancaster, who starred in more than 60 movies, won an Oscar for his portrayal of an evangelist in “Elmer Gantry.”