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
Detective Story (1951)
as Det. James McLeod
Paths of Glory (1957)
as Col. Dax
Ulysses (1954)
as Ulysses
Greedy (1994)
as Uncle Joe
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
as Ned Land
Out of the Past (1947)
as Whit Sterling
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as General Patton
The War Wagon (1967)
as Lomax
The Final Countdown (1980)
as Capt. Matthew Yelland
The Vikings (1958)
as Einar
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
as Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday
Oscar (1991)
as Eduardo Provolone
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
as Richard Dudgeon
Illusion (2004)
as Donald Baines
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
as Dr. Rolf Pedersen
Let Poland Be Poland (1982)
as Self
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
The Villain (1979)
as Cactus Jack
The Fury (1978)
as Peter Sandza
Ace in the Hole (1951)
as Charles Tatum
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
as Marshal Matt Morgan
Man Without a Star (1955)
as Dempsey Rae
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Saturn 3 (1980)
as Major Adam
In Harm's Way (1965)
as Commander Paul Eddington, Jr.
Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968)
as Self
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (1986)
as Self
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
as Harrison / Spur
Completely Cuckoo (1997)
as Self
For Love or Money (1963)
as Deke Gentry
The Way West (1967)
as Sen. William J. Tadlock
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
as Will Denton
Home Movies (1980)
as Dr. Tuttle
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
as Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
as Jonathan Shields
Lonely are the Brave (1962)
as John W. "Jack" Burns
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
as George Phipps
Posse (1975)
as Howard Nightingale
Lust for Life (1956)
as Vincent van Gogh
The Untameable Kirk Douglas (2017)
as Self - Actor
Seven Days in May (1964)
as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey
Inherit the Wind (1988)
as Matthew Harrison Brady
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
as Pierre Narval
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
as Walter O'Neil
My Life As Roger Moore (2026)
as Self (Archivfilmmaterial)
Tough Guys (1986)
as Archie Long
Along the Great Divide (1951)
as Marshal Len Merrick
It Runs in the Family (2003)
as Mitchell Gromberg
The Indian Fighter (1955)
as Johnny Hawks
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
as Larry Coe
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France (2009)
Actor
Act of Love (1953)
as Robert Teller
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
as George Brougham / Vicar Atlee / Mr. Pythian / Arthur Henderson
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
as Paris Pitman, Jr.
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
as Rick Martin
The Last Sunset (1961)
as Brendan 'Bren' O'Malley
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
as Carl 'Buster' Marzack
Welcome to Veraz (1991)
as Quentin
Top Secret Affair (1957)
as Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin
Once Is Not Enough (1975)
as Mike Wayne
The Arrangement (1969)
as Eddie Anderson
The Big Sky (1952)
as Jim Deakins
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
as Jack Andrus
The Racing Experience (1988)
as Self
A Gunfight (1971)
as Will Tenneray
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Herschel Vilnofsky
Champion (1949)
as Midge Kelly
The Brotherhood (1968)
as Frank Ginetta
I Walk Alone (1947)
as Noll "Dink" Turner
The Special London Bridge Special (1972)
as The Indian Fighter
All-Time Movie Greats (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Big Trees (1952)
as Jim Fallon
Kirk Douglas (1972)
as Himself
The Master Touch (1972)
as Steve Wallace
J'ai tout donné (1972)
as Self
Catch Me a Spy (1971)
as Andrej
From Roger Moore with Love (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth (2018)
as Self
Monsters of the Deep (—)
as Himself
The Hook (1963)
as Sgt. P.J. Briscoe
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
as Robert Caine
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008)
as Self
A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
as Jameson Schuyler
Diamonds (1999)
as Harry Agensky
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
as (archive footage)
Two-Fisted Tales (1992)
as General Calthrop
Draw! (1984)
as Harry H. Holland aka Handsome Harry Holland
I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas (2015)
as Self - Interviewee
Salute to Lady Liberty (1984)
Actor
My Dear Secretary (1948)
as Owen Waterbury
The Walls of Jericho (1948)
as Tucker Wedge
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Self – Interviewee
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection (1999)
as General Kalthrob
Scalawag (1973)
as Peg
Discovering: Robert Mitchum (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
The Racers (1955)
as Gino Borgesa
A Century of Cinema (1994)
as Self
The Making of A Movie (1965)
as Self
James Bond: The First 21 Years (1983)
as Self
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape (1984)
as Narrator
Town Without Pity (1961)
as Major Garrett
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2009)
as Self
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017)
as Self
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget (2009)
as Self
Trumbo (2007)
as Self - Interviewee
Hollywood au pied du terril (2014)
as Self
Johnny Cash: American Rebel (2015)
as Self (archive photo)
The Juggler (1953)
as Hans Muller
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea (1990)
as Ned Land (archive footage)
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
as Jim O'Connor
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Peter Niles
Vincent van Gogh Superstar (2019)
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
The Secret (1992)
as Grandpa Mike Dunmore
Stanley Kubrick in Focus (2012)
as Self
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers (1985)
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick (1986)
as Self
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway (2003)
Actor
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005)
as Self
Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From? (1956)
as Self
Empire State Building Murders (2008)
as Jim Kovalski
Mousey (1974)
as George Anderson
The Lies Boys Tell (1994)
as Ed Reese
The Disneyland Story (1954)
as Self
Amos (1985)
as Amos Lasher
Remembrance Of Love (1982)
as Joe Rabin
Operation Undersea (1954)
as Self
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light (1957)
as Self
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001)
as Self
The Universal Story (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas (1966)
as Self
Movie Tough Guys (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
FBI contre Hollywood (2001)
as Self