Kirk Douglas
Biography
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director and author. He grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the United States Navy during World War II.
During his career, Douglas appeared in more than 90 movies and was known for his explosive acting style. He became an international star for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Detective Story (1951), a film for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama. He received a second Oscar nomination for his role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), which landed him a second Golden Globe nomination.
In 1955, Douglas established Bryna Productions, which produced films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). He took the lead roles in both films. Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit. In 1963 Douglas starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film.
As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he wrote ten novels and memoirs. He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema.
Kirk Douglas died at age 103.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1916-12-09
Place of birth
Amsterdam, New York, USA
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Cast
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
7.05
Spartacus
1960
7.54
Paths of Glory
1957
8.26
Out of the Past
1947
7.64
Movie Tough Guys
1991
10.00
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1973
5.90
Is Paris Burning?
1966
7.18
Detective Story
1951
7.02
Tough Guys
1986
6.00
Victory at Entebbe
1976
5.00
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
7.00
It Runs in the Family
2003
5.98
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963
6.60
Seven Days in May
1964
7.30
The Man from Snowy River
1982
7.00
Home Movies
1980
5.60
Oscar
1991
6.30
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966
6.20
The Final Countdown
1980
6.62
Ace in the Hole
1951
7.86
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
6.64
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
7.32
Greedy
1994
6.15
The Fury
1978
6.30
Champion
1949
6.60
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
7.06
I Walk Alone
1947
6.50
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
6.80
The War Wagon
1967
6.80
Young Man with a Horn
1950
6.40
Diamonds
1999
5.10
Eddie Macon's Run
1983
5.70
Lust for Life
1956
7.17
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
7.09
The Vikings
1958
7.03
The Way West
1967
6.10
Lonely are the Brave
1962
7.38
Man Without a Star
1955
6.40
The Big Sky
1952
6.50
The Big Trees
1952
5.44
Ulysses
1954
6.50
Along the Great Divide
1951
7.30
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
5.91
In Harm's Way
1965
6.56
A Letter to Three Wives
1949
7.18
Posse
1975
6.03
Holocaust 2000
1977
5.82
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
6.90
The Last Sunset
1961
6.80
The Master Touch
1972
5.70
My Dear Secretary
1948
5.90
The Glass Menagerie
1950
5.60
The Arrangement
1969
6.53
Empire State Building Murders
2008
0.00
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
6.05
Saturn 3
1980
5.25
A Gunfight
1971
5.71
The Brotherhood
1968
5.90
Catch Me a Spy
1971
4.60
Town Without Pity
1961
6.90
The Indian Fighter
1955
6.20
The Devil's Disciple
1959
6.60
Strangers When We Meet
1960
6.20
A Lovely Way to Die
1968
4.70
Illusion
2004
7.60
Once Is Not Enough
1975
5.00
Mousey
1974
4.43
The Walls of Jericho
1948
4.92
Draw!
1984
6.30
The Story of Three Loves
1953
5.83
Scalawag
1973
5.50
The Lies Boys Tell
1994
5.00
Top Secret Affair
1957
4.33
The Racers
1955
6.00
The Villain
1979
5.74
Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick
1986
0.00
Act of Love
1953
6.70
The Hook
1963
6.10
Remembrance Of Love
1982
6.00
Inherit the Wind
1988
7.80
For Love or Money
1963
5.70
Amos
1985
7.00
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget
2009
7.30
The Juggler
1953
6.50
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019
6.50
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light
1957
0.00
Operation Undersea
1954
2.00
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
7.60
FBI contre Hollywood
2001
5.00
Trumbo
2007
6.63
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
6.50
Welcome to Veraz
1991
3.70
J'ai tout donné
1972
8.00
Two-Fisted Tales
1992
5.03
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012
6.00
The Secret
1992
0.00
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968
2.00
Completely Cuckoo
1997
5.70
Kirk Douglas
1966
5.60
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983
5.00
The Universal Story
1996
7.70
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
6.20
A Century of Cinema
1994
8.00
Hollywood au pied du terril
2014
0.00
The Disneyland Story
1954
8.00
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
0.00
From Roger Moore with Love
2024
7.80
The Racing Experience
1988
6.00
Kirk Douglas
1972
0.00
The Making of A Movie
1965
0.00