Kirk Douglas

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: Acting

Born: Amsterdam, New York, USA, 1916-12-09

Died: 2020-02-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1946	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	Walter O'Neil	71
2	1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Peter Niles	63
3	1947	Out of the Past	Whit Sterling	76
4	1947	I Walk Alone	Noll "Dink" Turner	65
5	1948	My Dear Secretary	Owen Waterbury	58
6	1948	The Walls of Jericho	Tucker Wedge	57
7	1949	A Letter to Three Wives	George Phipps	72
8	1949	Champion	Midge Kelly	66
9	1950	Young Man with a Horn	Rick Martin	63
10	1950	The Glass Menagerie	Jim O'Connor	58
11	1951	Along the Great Divide	Marshal Len Merrick	74
12	1951	Ace in the Hole	Charles Tatum	79
13	1951	Detective Story	Det. James McLeod	70
14	1952	The Big Trees	Jim Fallon	56
15	1952	The Big Sky	Jim Deakins	65
16	1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	Jonathan Shields	73
17	1953	The Story of Three Loves	Pierre Narval	56
18	1953	The Juggler	Hans Muller	65
19	1953	Act of Love	Robert Teller	67
20	1954	Ulysses	Ulysses	65
21	1954	The Disneyland Story		80
22	1954	Operation Undersea	Self	20
23	1954	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Ned Land	70
24	1955	The Racers	Gino Borgesa	60
25	1955	Man Without a Star	Dempsey Rae	65
26	1955	The Indian Fighter	Johnny Hawks	63
27	1956	Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?	Self	0
28	1956	Lust for Life	Vincent van Gogh	72
29	1957	Top Secret Affair	Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin	46
30	1957	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday	70
31	1957	Van Gogh: Darkness into Light	Self	0
32	1957	Paths of Glory	Col. Dax	83
33	1958	The Vikings	Einar	71
34	1959	Last Train from Gun Hill	Marshal Matt Morgan	71
35	1959	The Devil's Disciple	Richard Dudgeon	66
36	1960	Strangers When We Meet	Larry Coe	63
37	1960	Spartacus	Spartacus	75
38	1961	The Last Sunset	Brendan 'Bren' O'Malley	68
39	1961	Town Without Pity	Major Garrett	71
40	1962	Lonely are the Brave	John W. "Jack" Burns	74
41	1962	Two Weeks in Another Town	Jack Andrus	59
42	1963	The Hook	Sgt. P.J. Briscoe	61
43	1963	The List of Adrian Messenger	George Brougham / Vicar Atlee / Mr. Pythian / Arthur Henderson	66
44	1963	For Love or Money	Deke Gentry	53
45	1964	Seven Days in May	Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey	73
46	1965	The Making of A Movie	Self	0
47	1965	In Harm's Way	Commander Paul Eddington, Jr.	66
48	1965	The Heroes of Telemark	Dr. Rolf Pedersen	69
49	1966	Cast a Giant Shadow	Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus	63
50	1966	Is Paris Burning?	General Patton	72
51	1966	Kirk Douglas	Self	56
52	1967	The Way West	Sen. William J. Tadlock	60
53	1967	The War Wagon	Lomax	68
54	1968	Rowan & Martin at the Movies	Self	0
55	1968	A Lovely Way to Die	Jameson Schuyler	45
56	1968	The Brotherhood	Frank Ginetta	59
57	1969	The Arrangement	Eddie Anderson	67
58	1970	There Was a Crooked Man...	Paris Pitman, Jr.	68
59	1971	The Light at the Edge of the World	Will Denton	59
60	1971	A Gunfight	Will Tenneray	58
61	1971	Catch Me a Spy	Andrej	46
62	1972	The Special London Bridge Special	The Indian Fighter	0
63	1972	J'ai tout donné	Self	80
64	1972	Kirk Douglas	Himself	0
65	1972	The Master Touch	Steve Wallace	57
66	1973	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde	59
67	1973	Scalawag	Peg	55
68	1974	Mousey	George Anderson	46
69	1975	Posse	Howard Nightingale	59
70	1975	Once Is Not Enough	Mike Wayne	52
71	1976	Victory at Entebbe	Herschel Vilnofsky	51
72	1977	Holocaust 2000	Robert Caine	59
73	1978	The Fury	Peter Sandza	63
74	1979	The Villain	Cactus Jack	57
75	1980	The Final Countdown	Capt. Matthew Yelland	66
76	1980	Saturn 3	Major Adam	53
77	1980	Home Movies	Dr. Tuttle	56
78	1982	Let Poland Be Poland	Self	0
79	1982	The Man from Snowy River	Harrison / Spur	69
80	1982	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	(in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)	66
81	1982	Remembrance Of Love	Joe Rabin	60
82	1983	Eddie Macon's Run	Carl 'Buster' Marzack	57
83	1983	James Bond: The First 21 Years	Self	50
84	1984	Draw!	Harry H. Holland aka Handsome Harry Holland	65
85	1985	Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers	Self (archive footage)	0
86	1985	Amos	Amos Lasher	70
87	1986	Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary	Self	67
88	1986	Tough Guys	Archie Long	60
89	1986	Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick	Self	0
90	1988	Inherit the Wind	Matthew Harrison Brady	78
91	1988	The Racing Experience	Self	60
92	1990	Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea	Ned Land (archive footage)	83
93	1991	Movie Tough Guys	Self (archive footage)	100
94	1991	Oscar	Eduardo Provolone	63
95	1991	Welcome to Veraz	Quentin	37
96	1992	Two-Fisted Tales	General Calthrop	50
97	1992	The Secret	Grandpa Mike Dunmore	0
98	1994	A Century of Cinema	Self	80
99	1994	Greedy	Uncle Joe	62
100	1994	The Lies Boys Tell	Ed Reese	50
101	1996	The Universal Story	Self (archive footage)	77
102	1997	Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line	Self (archive footage)	70
103	1997	Completely Cuckoo	Self	57
104	1999	Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection	General Kalthrob	87
105	1999	Diamonds	Harry Agensky	53
106	2001	FBI contre Hollywood	Self	50
107	2001	Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir	Self	73
108	2003	It Runs in the Family	Mitchell Gromberg	60
109	2003	The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway		0
110	2004	Illusion	Donald Baines	76
111	2005	A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Self	64
112	2007	Trumbo	Self - Interviewee	67
113	2008	Empire State Building Murders	Jim Kovalski	0
114	2008	Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices	Self	58
115	2009	Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Self	20
116	2009	Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget	Self	73
117	2010	Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff	Self – Interviewee	67
118	2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)	76
119	2012	Stanley Kubrick in Focus	Self	60
120	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
121	2014	Hollywood au pied du terril	Self	0
122	2015	I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas	Self - Interviewee	0
123	2017	If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast	Self	71
124	2017	The Untameable Kirk Douglas	Self - Actor	62
125	2019	Mike Wallace Is Here	(archive footage)	65
126	2019	Vincent van Gogh Superstar	Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)	65
127	2020	Kubrick by Kubrick	Self (archive footage)	74
128	2024	From Roger Moore with Love	Self (archive footage)	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
3	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
4	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
5	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
6	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Ulysses (archive footage)	68
7	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	64
8	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
9	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
10	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
11	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
12	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Recipient	56
13	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Guest	56
14	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
15	1962	The Lucy Show	Kirk Douglas	70
16	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
17	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
18	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self (uncredited)	65
19	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
20	1969	The Johnny Cash Show	Self	65
21	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
22	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
23	1974	Der große Preis	Self	60
24	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
25	1975	Apostrophes	Self	85
26	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
27	1976	Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers	Alex Vandervoort	30
28	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
29	1980	Verstehen Sie Spaß?	Self	38
30	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
31	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self (archive footage)	63
32	1982	Wogan	Self	45
33	1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
34	1987	Queenie	David Konig	60
35	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
36	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Gen. Kalthrob	80
37	1989	The Simpsons	Chester J. Lampwick (voice)	80
38	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
39	1994	Brisant	Self	55
40	1994	Touched by an Angel	Ross Berger	72
41	1996	Clive Anderson All Talk	Self	0
42	1997	Scene by Scene	Self	60
43	1997	The View	Self	45
44	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
45	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
46	2018	Basketball: A Love Story	Self (archive footage)	70

Kirk Douglas

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