Born Issur Danielovitch Dec. 9, 1916, in Amsterdam, N.Y, Kirk Douglas grew up in poverty, escaping the ghetto via an acting scholarship.After playing minor parts on Broadway, Douglas was cast in his first movie, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946). Three years later, the cleft-chinned actor accepted the lead in Champion and netted his first Oscar nomination; Douglas earned his second nomination for 1952's The Bad and the Beautiful. A third Oscar nod and a Golden Globe came in 1956 with Lust for Life. By this time, he'd established his screen personae -- virile men whose bluster veils internal turmoil.
In 1960, Douglas produced and starred in his seminal film: Spartacus. Later works of note include Seven Days in May (1964), The Arrangement (1969), Saturn 3 (1980) and Tough Guys (1986). Douglas suffered a stroke in 1996 but returned to the big screen with Diamonds in 1999.
AddThe Final CountdownWhat would have happened if a circa-1980s U.S. aircraft carrier (with all its modern firepower) time-warped back to Pacific waters just outside Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? World history -- to say nothing of the U.S. entry into World War II -- might have played out very differently. That's the... Read More
Add20,000 Leagues Under the SeaKirk Douglas stars as Ned Land and James Mason as Captain Nemo in this Walt Disney live-action adaptation of the classic Jules Verne underwater adventure. The movie, which garnered two Academy Awards in 1954 (for Special Effects and Art Direction), chronicles Nemo's heroic rescue of shipwrecked... Read More
AddLonely Are the BraveKirk Douglas makes a lasting impression as Jack Burns -- one of a dying breed, the American cowboy -- in this modern-day Western that finds Burns purposely landing in jail to spring a friend (Michael Kane) … but discovering that he doesn't want to be sprung. Burns then busts out alone, with... Read More
AddUlyssesSilver screen legend Kirk Douglas stars in this ambitious adaptation of Homer's classic The Odyssey as Ulysses, the valiant hero doomed to a perilous, 10-year journey home following his triumph in the Trojan War. Anthony Quinn also stars in this epic tale as Antinoos, the smooth-talking... Read More
AddPaths of GloryWriter-director Stanley Kubrick's powerful antiwar statement stars Kirk Douglas as Col. Dax, commander of a weary regiment of the French army along the western front during World War I. When French generals order the regiment to carry out what amounts to a suicide mission against heavy German fire,... Read More
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