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
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Kirk Douglas
1972
Kirk Douglas
1966
I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas
2015
Hollywood au pied du terril
2014