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