Kirk Douglas
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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.
Known for
Credits
Spartacus (1960)
as Spartacus
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
as Ned Land
Paths of Glory (1957)
as Col. Dax
Oscar (1991)
as Eduardo Provolone
Ulysses (1954)
as Ulysses
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
as Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday
The Final Countdown (1980)
as Capt. Matthew Yelland
The Vikings (1958)
as Einar
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
as Dr. Rolf Pedersen
Out of the Past (1947)
as Whit Sterling
The War Wagon (1967)
as Lomax
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
Greedy (1994)
as Uncle Joe
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
as Jonathan Shields
Saturn 3 (1980)
as Major Adam
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
as Harrison / Spur
Ace in the Hole (1951)
as Charles Tatum
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
as Marshal Matt Morgan
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as General Patton
The Fury (1978)
as Peter Sandza
Seven Days in May (1964)
as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey
Tough Guys (1986)
as Archie Long
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
The Villain (1979)
as Cactus Jack
In Harm's Way (1965)
as Commander Paul Eddington, Jr.
Lonely are the Brave (1962)
as John W. "Jack" Burns
Lust for Life (1956)
as Vincent van Gogh
Posse (1975)
as Howard Nightingale
The Way West (1967)
as Sen. William J. Tadlock
The Last Sunset (1961)
as Brendan 'Bren' O'Malley
The Indian Fighter (1955)
as Johnny Hawks
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
as Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
as George Phipps
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
as Paris Pitman, Jr.
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
as Richard Dudgeon
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
as Walter O'Neil
It Runs in the Family (2003)
as Mitchell Gromberg
Detective Story (1951)
as Det. James McLeod
Along the Great Divide (1951)
as Marshal Len Merrick
Man Without a Star (1955)
as Dempsey Rae
I Walk Alone (1947)
as Noll "Dink" Turner
From Roger Moore with Love (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
as Pierre Narval
The Brotherhood (1968)
as Frank Ginetta
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
as Carl 'Buster' Marzack
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
as George Brougham / Vicar Atlee / Mr. Pythian / Arthur Henderson
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
as Rick Martin
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Herschel Vilnofsky
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (1986)
as Self
The Big Sky (1952)
as Jim Deakins
Champion (1949)
as Midge Kelly
A Gunfight (1971)
as Will Tenneray
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
as Jack Andrus
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
as Will Denton
Home Movies (1980)
as Dr. Tuttle
For Love or Money (1963)
as Deke Gentry
A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
as Jameson Schuyler
Two-Fisted Tales (1992)
as General Calthrop
The Arrangement (1969)
as Eddie Anderson
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
as Robert Caine
Kirk Douglas (1972)
as Himself
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Illusion (2004)
as Donald Baines
Once Is Not Enough (1975)
as Mike Wayne
The Juggler (1953)
as Hans Muller
My Dear Secretary (1948)
as Owen Waterbury
J'ai tout donné (1972)
as Self
A Century of Cinema (1994)
as Self
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
as (archive footage)
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2009)
as Self
Catch Me a Spy (1971)
as Andrej
Top Secret Affair (1957)
as Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
as Larry Coe
Trumbo (2007)
as Self - Interviewee
The Untameable Kirk Douglas (2017)
as Self - Actor
Stanley Kubrick in Focus (2012)
as Self
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005)
as Self
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection (1999)
as General Kalthrob
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Self – Interviewee
Inherit the Wind (1988)
as Matthew Harrison Brady
The Racers (1955)
as Gino Borgesa
Act of Love (1953)
as Robert Teller
The Master Touch (1972)
as Steve Wallace
The Hook (1963)
as Sgt. P.J. Briscoe
Draw! (1984)
as Harry H. Holland aka Handsome Harry Holland
Completely Cuckoo (1997)
as Self
The Big Trees (1952)
as Jim Fallon
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Walls of Jericho (1948)
as Tucker Wedge
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Peter Niles
The Universal Story (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Town Without Pity (1961)
as Major Garrett
Diamonds (1999)
as Harry Agensky
Welcome to Veraz (1991)
as Quentin
James Bond: The First 21 Years (1983)
as Self
Scalawag (1973)
as Peg
Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968)
as Self
The Secret (1992)
as Grandpa Mike Dunmore
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers (1985)
as Self (archive footage)
My Life As Roger Moore (—)
as Self (Archivfilmmaterial)
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France (2009)
Actor
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
as Jim O'Connor
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea (1990)
as Ned Land (archive footage)
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008)
as Self
Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick (1986)
as Self
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth (2018)
as Self
The Special London Bridge Special (1972)
as The Indian Fighter
Amos (1985)
as Amos Lasher
Remembrance Of Love (1982)
as Joe Rabin
Monsters of the Deep (—)
as Himself
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017)
as Self
Vincent van Gogh Superstar (2019)
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
Let Poland Be Poland (1982)
as Self
Mousey (1974)
as George Anderson
The Disneyland Story (1954)
as Self
Johnny Cash: American Rebel (2015)
as Self (archive photo)
Empire State Building Murders (2008)
as Jim Kovalski
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Kirk Douglas (1966)
as Self
Discovering: Robert Mitchum (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Salute to Lady Liberty (1984)
Actor
Operation Undersea (1954)
as Self
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001)
as Self
Hollywood au pied du terril (2014)
as Self
Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From? (1956)
as Self
Movie Tough Guys (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
All-Time Movie Greats (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Racing Experience (1988)
as Self
The Lies Boys Tell (1994)
as Ed Reese
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway (2003)
Actor
FBI contre Hollywood (2001)
as Self
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light (1957)
as Self
I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas (2015)
as Self - Interviewee
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget (2009)
as Self
The Making of A Movie (1965)
as Self
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape (1984)
as Narrator