
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.
179 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 179

The Simpsons
1989

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Saturday Night Live
1975

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The View
1997

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Touched by an Angel
1994

Champs-Elysées
1982

Tony Awards
1956

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Wogan
1982

Tales from the Crypt
1989

The Lucy Show
1962

What's My Line?
1950

Apostrophes
1975

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

The Oscars
1953

Spécial cinéma
1974

People's Choice Awards
1975

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Goldene Kamera
1984
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

Basketball: A Love Story
2018

Parkinson
1998

This Is Your Life
1952

Cinépanorama
1956

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978

Brisant
1994
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971

Paths of Glory
1957

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973

Verstehen Sie Spaß?
1980

Spartacus
1960

Cérémonie des César
1976
Der große Preis
1974
The George Gobel Show
1954

The Johnny Cash Show
1969

Scene by Scene
1997

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012

Oscar
1991

The Final Countdown
1980

Queenie
1987

Ulysses
1954

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976

Out of the Past
1947

The Vikings
1958

In Harm's Way
1965

The Fury
1978

Saturn 3
1980

Last Train from Gun Hill
1959

The War Wagon
1967

Is Paris Burning?
1966

The Man from Snowy River
1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982

Seven Days in May
1964

Clive James' Postcard from
1989
Clive Anderson All Talk
1996

The Heroes of Telemark
1965

Lust for Life
1956

The Way West
1967

Ace in the Hole
1951

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
1986

James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983

Posse
1975

Greedy
1994

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952

Tough Guys
1986

Lonely are the Brave
1962

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010

The Villain
1979

There Was a Crooked Man...
1970

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946

Champion
1949

The Universal Story
1996

Trumbo
2007

Cast a Giant Shadow
1966

Two Weeks in Another Town
1962

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985

The List of Adrian Messenger
1963

Holocaust 2000
1977

A Letter to Three Wives
1949

A Century of Cinema
1994

The Indian Fighter
1955

The Last Sunset
1961

The Big Sky
1952

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997

The Story of Three Loves
1953

Along the Great Divide
1951

A Gunfight
1971

Two-Fisted Tales
1992

The Arrangement
1969

The Brotherhood
1968

Strangers When We Meet
1960

Man Without a Star
1955

Detective Story
1951

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
2008

The Special London Bridge Special
1972

Young Man with a Horn
1950

Eddie Macon's Run
1983

Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009

Mike Wallace Is Here
2019

Victory at Entebbe
1976

Diamonds
1999

The Light at the Edge of the World
1971

From Roger Moore with Love
2024

Once Upon a Wheel
1971

I Walk Alone
1947

The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020

The Hook
1963

A Lovely Way to Die
1968

The Big Trees
1952

The Devil's Disciple
1959

Once Is Not Enough
1975

My Dear Secretary
1948

Top Secret Affair
1957

Scalawag
1973
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012

Home Movies
1980

Catch Me a Spy
1971

Inherit the Wind
1988

It Runs in the Family
2003

A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005

The Disneyland Story
1954

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
2017

Illusion
2004

Town Without Pity
1961

Mourning Becomes Electra
1947

Draw!
1984

Johnny Cash: American Rebel
2015

Completely Cuckoo
1997

The Racers
1955

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1973

The Walls of Jericho
1948

The Juggler
1953

The Secret
1992

Mousey
1974

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003

Act of Love
1953

Amos
1985

Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968

Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick
1986

The Glass Menagerie
1950

The Lies Boys Tell
1994
Empire State Building Murders
2008

Movie Tough Guys
1991

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020

Operation Undersea
1954

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001

Welcome to Veraz
1991

For Love or Money
1963
The Racing Experience
1988

The Master Touch
1972

Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?
1956

Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019

Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea
1990
The Making of A Movie
1965

Let Poland Be Poland
1982
FBI contre Hollywood
2001

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget
2009

Remembrance Of Love
1982

J'ai tout donné
1972
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light
1957

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009
My Life As Roger Moore
—

Kirk Douglas
1972

Kirk Douglas
1966
I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas
2015
Hollywood au pied du terril
2014