Kirk Douglas
Gender: Male
Born: 9th December 1916 (currently 95 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Movies: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Letter to Three Wives, Ace in the Hole, Cast a Giant Shadow, Champion, Detective Story, I Walk Alone, In Harm's Way, Lonely are the Brave, Lust for Life, Out of the Past, Paths of Glory, Saturn 3, Seven Days in May, Spartacus, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Big Trees, The Devil's Disciple, The Final Countdown, The Fury, The Light at the Edge of the World, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The War Wagon, The Way West, Young Man with a Horn, The Man from Snowy River, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Devil's Disciple, Top Secret Affair, The Heroes of Telemark, It Runs in the Family, Tough Guys, The Vikings, Is Paris Burning?, There Was a Crooked Man..., Along the Great Divide, Greedy, A Gunfight, The Villain, The Last Sunset, Diamonds, Ulysses, The Juggler, Last Train from Gun Hill, The Brotherhood, Strangers When We Meet, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, For Love or Money, Draw!, The Big Sky, Illusion, Town Without Pity, Remembrance of Love, Take Me Home Again, Holocaust 2000, The Secret, Posse, The List of Adrian Messenger, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Indian Fighter, Eddie Macon's Run, Inherit the Wind, Man Without a Star, My Dear Secretary, Oscar, To Catch a Spy, The Hook, The Story of Three Loves, The Master Touch, Once Is Not Enough, Act of Love, Home Movies, The Arrangement, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Lovely Way to Die, World's Greatest Movie Challenge, The Glass Menagerie, The Racers, A Father ... a Son ... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Two-Fisted Tales
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, Russian: И́сер Даниело́вич; December 9, 1916) is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past (1947), Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Spartacus (1960), and Lonely Are the Brave (1962).
He is No.17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time, making him the highest-ranked living person on the list. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community."
Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Bryna "Bertha" (née Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch, a businessman. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel, Belarus. His father's brother, who emigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglas's family adopted in the United States. In addition to their surname, his parents also changed their given names to Harry and Bertha. Douglas grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas
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