Kirk Douglas

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    Issur Danielovitch, Issur Danielovitch Demsky, Isador Demsky, Izzy Demsky, Кёрк Дуглас, Керк Даґлас

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1916-12-09
  • event Death Date 2020-02-05
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 10.7
  • info Birth Place Amsterdam, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Kirk Douglas

7

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1954-12-23

7.6

Spartacus

1960-10-13

8.3

Paths of Glory

1957-10-25

7.6

Out of the Past

1947-11-25

10

Movie Tough Guys

1991-01-01

0

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

1985-01-01

5.8

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1973-03-07

7.2

Is Paris Burning?

1966-10-26

7

Detective Story

1951-11-01

5.9

Tough Guys

1986-10-03

5

Victory at Entebbe

1976-12-13

7

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957-05-30

6

It Runs in the Family

2003-04-25

6.6

The List of Adrian Messenger

1963-05-23

7.2

Seven Days in May

1964-02-01

6.9

The Man from Snowy River

1982-03-25

5.4

Home Movies

1980-05-16

6.3

Oscar

1991-04-26

6.3

Cast a Giant Shadow

1966-03-30

6.6

The Final Countdown

1980-01-31

7.8

Ace in the Hole

1951-06-29

6.6

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982-05-21

7.4

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952-12-25

6.2

Greedy

1994-03-04

6.3

The Fury

1978-03-10

6.7

Champion

1949-04-09

7.1

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946-08-19

6.6

I Walk Alone

1947-12-31

6.8

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970-09-18

6.9

The War Wagon

1967-05-26

6.2

Young Man with a Horn

1950-03-01

5.3

Diamonds

1999-12-10

5.8

Eddie Macon's Run

1983-03-23

7.1

Lust for Life

1956-09-15

7

Last Train from Gun Hill

1959-07-29

7.1

The Vikings

1958-06-11

6

The Way West

1967-05-24

7.3

Lonely are the Brave

1962-05-24

6.4

Man Without a Star

1955-03-24

6.5

The Big Sky

1952-08-19

5.5

The Big Trees

1952-02-05

6.4

Ulysses

1954-10-06

7.2

Along the Great Divide

1951-06-02

5.9

Two Weeks in Another Town

1962-08-17

6.5

In Harm's Way

1965-04-06

7.2

A Letter to Three Wives

1949-01-20

5.9

Posse

1975-06-04

5.9

Holocaust 2000

1977-11-25

6.9

The Heroes of Telemark

1965-11-12

6.8

The Last Sunset

1961-06-08

5.6

The Master Touch

1972-12-08

5.9

My Dear Secretary

1948-11-05

5.6

The Glass Menagerie

1950-09-28

6.7

The Arrangement

1969-11-18

6.4

A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2005-09-02

0

Empire State Building Murders

2008-08-14

6.3

Mourning Becomes Electra

1947-11-19

5.2

Saturn 3

1980-02-15

5.8

A Gunfight

1971-08-25

5.9

The Brotherhood

1968-12-01

5.8

The Light at the Edge of the World

1971-07-16

4.6

Catch Me a Spy

1971-09-06

6.9

Town Without Pity

1961-10-10

6.1

The Indian Fighter

1955-12-21

6.5

The Devil's Disciple

1959-08-20

6.4

Strangers When We Meet

1960-06-29

4.3

A Lovely Way to Die

1968-04-19

8.2

Illusion

2004-10-25

5.2

Once Is Not Enough

1975-06-20

4.6

Mousey

1974-05-24

0

I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas

2015-10-06

5.7

The Walls of Jericho

1948-11-22

6.5

Draw!

1984-06-15

5.5

The Story of Three Loves

1953-03-26

5.8

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices

2008-10-21

5.5

Scalawag

1973-04-22

5

The Lies Boys Tell

1994-12-18

4.6

Top Secret Affair

1957-01-30

6

The Racers

1955-02-04

5.7

The Villain

1979-07-26

0

Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick

1986-11-22

6.8

Act of Love

1953-12-17

5.8

The Hook

1963-02-15

6

Remembrance Of Love

1982-12-06

8

Inherit the Wind

1988-03-20

5.3

For Love or Money

1963-08-07

7.1

Amos

1985-09-29

7.3

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget

2009-11-24

6.6

The Juggler

1953-05-11

6.5

Vincent van Gogh Superstar

2019-11-05

0

Van Gogh: Darkness into Light

1957-09-17

2

Operation Undersea

1954-12-08

0

The Special London Bridge Special

1972-01-01

7.5

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012-02-04

5

FBI contre Hollywood

2001-08-14

6.9

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010-05-05

6.7

Trumbo

2007-09-10

7

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

1997-05-12

6.3

Mike Wallace Is Here

2019-07-26

3.7

Welcome to Veraz

1991-06-21

8

J'ai tout donné

1972-06-21

4.6

Two-Fisted Tales

1992-01-18

6

Stanley Kubrick in Focus

2012-11-30

0

The Secret

1992-04-19

0

Rowan & Martin at the Movies

1968-01-01

7.2

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

2017-05-19

7.5

Completely Cuckoo

1997-12-16

4.8

Queenie

1987-05-10

5.5

Kirk Douglas

1966-12-31

6.7

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

1986-01-14

5

James Bond: The First 21 Years

1983-05-27

0

Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?

1956-04-03

7.7

The Universal Story

1996-04-21

6.2

The Untameable Kirk Douglas

2017-06-01

7

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014-02-01

8

A Century of Cinema

1994-01-01

0

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

2003-10-31

0

Hollywood au pied du terril

2014-12-31

7.5

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020-10-22

7.5

The Disneyland Story

1954-10-27

8.7

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

1999-09-07

0

Let Poland Be Poland

1982-01-31

7.3

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir

2001-10-01

8.1

The Simpsons

1989-12-17

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950-09-10

7.2

Touched by an Angel

1994-09-21

5.4

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988-09-05

7.1

The Lucy Show

1962-10-01

8

Tales from the Crypt

1989-06-10

4.5

The View

1997-08-11

5.3

The Merv Griffin Show

1962-10-01

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

7.1

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993-09-13

6.4

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1967-09-09

6.5

The Johnny Cash Show

1969-06-07

6.4

This Is Your Life

1952-10-01

4.5

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

1973-04-02

4

The Steve Allen Show

1956-06-24

0

Clive Anderson All Talk

1996-10-06

7

The Oscars

1953-03-19

7.2

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978-12-28

6

Basketball: A Love Story

2018-09-18

5.7

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957-07-29

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950-09-10

6

The George Gobel Show

1954-10-02

3

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

1976-12-04

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

4.5

Wogan

1982-05-04

6

V.I.P. Schaukel

1971-05-09

6

Scene by Scene

1997-05-10

0

Spécial cinéma

1974-09-25

3.8

Verstehen Sie Spaß?

1980-01-31

3.5

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

1966-01-25

4

The Steve Allen Show

1956-06-24

5

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975-01-12

6

Queenie

1987-05-10

6.2

Champs-Elysées

1982-01-16

10

Star Life

1990-08-04

8

Cinépanorama

1956-02-04

8.5

Apostrophes

1975-01-10

6.6

The Dick Cavett Show

1968-06-06

6.6

What's My Line?

1950-02-02

6

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003-02-21

6.2

Champs-Elysées

1982-01-16

6

Der große Preis

1974-09-05

6.8

Golden Globe Awards

1944-01-20

5.3

Brisant

1994-01-03

0

Parkinson

1998-01-09

0

Parkinson

1998-01-09

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