Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Birthday: 1916-12-09

Deathday: 2020-02-05

Place of birth: Amsterdam, New York, USA

Also known as: Issur Danielovitch, Issur Danielovitch Demsky, Isador Demsky, Izzy Demsky, Кёрк Дуглас, Керк Даґлас, کرک داگلاس

imdb_id: nm0000018

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.

Played in movies:

Movie Tough Guys

Score: 10.0

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

Score: 8.7

Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea

Score: 8.3

Paths of Glory

Score: 8.3

The Disneyland Story

Score: 8.0

A Century of Cinema

Score: 8.0

J'ai tout donné

Score: 8.0

Ace in the Hole

Score: 7.9

Inherit the Wind

Score: 7.8

From Roger Moore with Love

Score: 7.7

The Universal Story

Score: 7.7

Illusion

Score: 7.6

Out of the Past

Score: 7.6

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Score: 7.6

Spartacus

Score: 7.5

Lonely are the Brave

Score: 7.4

Along the Great Divide

Score: 7.4

The Bad and the Beautiful

Score: 7.3

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir

Score: 7.3

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget

Score: 7.3

Seven Days in May

Score: 7.3

A Letter to Three Wives

Score: 7.2

Lust for Life

Score: 7.2

Is Paris Burning?

Score: 7.2

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

Score: 7.1

Town Without Pity

Score: 7.1

Last Train from Gun Hill

Score: 7.1

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Score: 7.1

The Vikings

Score: 7.1

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Score: 7.0

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Score: 7.0

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Score: 7.0

Amos

Score: 7.0

Detective Story

Score: 7.0

The Man from Snowy River

Score: 6.9

The Heroes of Telemark

Score: 6.9

There Was a Crooked Man...

Score: 6.8

The Last Sunset

Score: 6.8

The War Wagon

Score: 6.8

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Score: 6.8

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

Score: 6.7

Trumbo

Score: 6.7

Act of Love

Score: 6.7

The Arrangement

Score: 6.7

Draw!

Score: 6.7

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Score: 6.6

The List of Adrian Messenger

Score: 6.6

The Final Countdown

Score: 6.6

Champion

Score: 6.6

In Harm's Way

Score: 6.6

The Devil's Disciple

Score: 6.5

I Walk Alone

Score: 6.5

Ulysses

Score: 6.5

Mike Wallace Is Here

Score: 6.5

Vincent van Gogh Superstar

Score: 6.5

The Juggler

Score: 6.5

The Big Sky

Score: 6.5

Man Without a Star

Score: 6.4

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

Score: 6.4

Strangers When We Meet

Score: 6.4

Oscar

Score: 6.3

The Indian Fighter

Score: 6.3

Mourning Becomes Electra

Score: 6.3

Young Man with a Horn

Score: 6.3

The Fury

Score: 6.3

Cast a Giant Shadow

Score: 6.3

The Untameable Kirk Douglas

Score: 6.2

Greedy

Score: 6.2

The Hook

Score: 6.1

It Runs in the Family

Score: 6.0

The Racing Experience

Score: 6.0

Stanley Kubrick in Focus

Score: 6.0

Remembrance Of Love

Score: 6.0

The Racers

Score: 6.0

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices

Score: 6.0

Posse

Score: 6.0

The Way West

Score: 6.0

Tough Guys

Score: 6.0

Two Weeks in Another Town

Score: 5.9

The Brotherhood

Score: 5.9

Holocaust 2000

Score: 5.9

The Light at the Edge of the World

Score: 5.9

My Dear Secretary

Score: 5.9

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Score: 5.9

The Glass Menagerie

Score: 5.8

A Gunfight

Score: 5.8

Eddie Macon's Run

Score: 5.7

The Villain

Score: 5.7

The Walls of Jericho

Score: 5.7

The Master Touch

Score: 5.7

Completely Cuckoo

Score: 5.7

The Story of Three Loves

Score: 5.6

Kirk Douglas

Score: 5.6

The Big Trees

Score: 5.6

Home Movies

Score: 5.6

Scalawag

Score: 5.5

For Love or Money

Score: 5.3

Diamonds

Score: 5.3

Saturn 3

Score: 5.3

Once Is Not Enough

Score: 5.2

Victory at Entebbe

Score: 5.1

James Bond: The First 21 Years

Score: 5.0

Two-Fisted Tales

Score: 5.0

FBI contre Hollywood

Score: 5.0

The Lies Boys Tell

Score: 5.0

Mousey

Score: 5.0

Top Secret Affair

Score: 4.6

Catch Me a Spy

Score: 4.6

A Lovely Way to Die

Score: 4.5

Welcome to Veraz

Score: 3.7

Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Score: 2.0

Operation Undersea

Score: 2.0

The Making of A Movie

Score: 0.0

Kirk Douglas

Score: 0.0

Let Poland Be Poland

Score: 0.0

Hollywood au pied du terril

Score: 0.0

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

Score: 0.0

Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?

Score: 0.0

Rowan & Martin at the Movies

Score: 0.0

The Secret

Score: 0.0

The Special London Bridge Special

Score: 0.0

Van Gogh: Darkness into Light

Score: 0.0

Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick

Score: 0.0

I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas

Score: 0.0

Empire State Building Murders

Score: 0.0

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Apostrophes

Score: 8.5

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Cinépanorama

Score: 8.0

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 8.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

The Kennedy Center Honors

Score: 7.4

The George Gobel Show

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.2

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Score: 7.0

Basketball: A Love Story

Score: 7.0

The Lucy Show

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Score: 6.6

The Johnny Cash Show

Score: 6.5

This Is Your Life

Score: 6.4

Champs-Elysées

Score: 6.3

Champs-Elysées

Score: 6.3

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Score: 6.3

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

Real Time with Bill Maher

Score: 6.0

Der große Preis

Score: 6.0

Queenie

Score: 6.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Score: 6.0

Scene by Scene

Score: 6.0

V.I.P. Schaukel

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Score: 5.7

The Steve Allen Show

Score: 5.6

The Steve Allen Show

Score: 5.6

Brisant

Score: 5.5

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Score: 5.5

Wogan

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.3

Verstehen Sie Spaß?

Score: 3.8

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

Score: 3.0

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

Spécial cinéma

Score: 0.0

Clive Anderson All Talk

Score: 0.0