Kirk Douglas
Acting
- Born:
- 1916-12-09
- Died:
- 2020-02-05
- Place of birth:
- Amsterdam, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
My Life As Roger Moore
From Roger Moore with Love
Morceaux de Cannes
Kubrick by Kubrick
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
Mike Wallace Is Here
Basketball: A Love Story
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas
Johnny Cash: American Rebel
Hollywood au pied du terril
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
Empire State Building Murders
Trumbo
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Illusion
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
It Runs in the Family
Real Time with Bill Maher
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
FBI contre Hollywood
Diamonds
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Parkinson
Completely Cuckoo
The View
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Scene by Scene
Clive Anderson All Talk
The Universal Story
The Lies Boys Tell
Touched by an Angel
Greedy
Brisant
A Century of Cinema
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Secret
Two-Fisted Tales
Welcome to Veraz
Oscar
Movie Tough Guys
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea
The Simpsons
Tales from the Crypt
Clive James' Postcard from
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Racing Experience
Inherit the Wind
All-Time Movie Greats
Queenie
Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick
Tough Guys
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
Amos
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape
Draw!
Salute to Lady Liberty
Goldene Kamera
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Eddie Macon's Run
Remembrance Of Love
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Wogan
The Man from Snowy River
Let Poland Be Poland
Champs-Elysées
Home Movies
Saturn 3
The Final Countdown
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
The Villain
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Fury
Holocaust 2000
Victory at Entebbe
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Cérémonie des César
Saturday Night Live
Once Is Not Enough
Posse
People's Choice Awards
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Apostrophes
Spécial cinéma
Der große Preis
Mousey
Scalawag
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Master Touch
Kirk Douglas
J'ai tout donné
The Special London Bridge Special
Film '72
Catch Me a Spy
A Gunfight
The Light at the Edge of the World
V.I.P. Schaukel
Once Upon a Wheel
There Was a Crooked Man...
The Arrangement
The Johnny Cash Show
The Brotherhood
The Dick Cavett Show
A Lovely Way to Die
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
The War Wagon
The Way West
Kirk Douglas
Is Paris Burning?
Cast a Giant Shadow
The Heroes of Telemark
In Harm's Way
The Making of A Movie
Pour le plaisir
Seven Days in May
For Love or Money
The List of Adrian Messenger
The Hook
The Lucy Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Two Weeks in Another Town
Lonely are the Brave
Town Without Pity
The Last Sunset
Spartacus
Strangers When We Meet
The Devil's Disciple
Last Train from Gun Hill
The Vikings
Paths of Glory
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Top Secret Affair
Lust for Life
The Steve Allen Show
Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?
Tony Awards
Cinépanorama
The Indian Fighter
Man Without a Star
The Racers
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Operation Undersea
The Disneyland Story
Ulysses
The George Gobel Show
Act of Love
The Juggler
The Story of Three Loves
The Oscars
The Bad and the Beautiful
This Is Your Life
The Big Sky
The Big Trees
Detective Story
Ace in the Hole
Along the Great Divide
The Jack Benny Program
The Glass Menagerie
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Young Man with a Horn
What's My Line?
Champion
A Letter to Three Wives
The Walls of Jericho
My Dear Secretary
The Ed Sullivan Show
I Walk Alone
Out of the Past
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Golden Globe Awards
Monsters of the Deep