Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas | |
Kirk Douglas in The Big Trees |
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Birth name | Issur Danielovitch Demsky |
Born | December 9, 1916 (age 91) Amsterdam, New York |
Other name(s) | Issur Danielovitch |
Spouse(s) | Diana Dill (1943-1951) Anne Buydens (1954-) |
Notable roles | Michael Kelly in Champion Jonathan Shields in The Bad and the Beautiful Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life Spartacus in Spartacus |
Academy Awards | |
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Academy Honorary Award 1996 Lifetime Achievement |
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Golden Globe Awards | |
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1957 Lust for Life Cecil B. DeMille Award 1968 Lifetime Achievement |
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César Awards | |
Honorary César 1980 Lifetime Achievement |
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer who has acted in many of Hollywood's greatest movies of all time, like Spartacus. He is also father to actor and producer Michael Douglas. He came in at #17 on AFI's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time and is one of two living actors on the list (Sidney Poitier is the other).
[change] Other websites
- Kirk Douglas at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- Kirk Douglas at the TCM Movie Database
- Kirk Douglas at the Internet Broadway Database
- Kirk Douglas at Yahoo! Movies
- Personal papers of Kirk Douglas at the Wisconsin Historical Society - Roughly 180,000 documents on Douglas's personal and professional life
- Newcritics.com: Meeting Kirk Douglas
- Kirk Douglas, le champion de Hollywood (in French)