Cast
Kirk Douglas
Acting
Cast
Kirk Douglas
Known for
Acting
Born
1916-12-09
From
Amsterdam, New York, USA
Died
2020-02-05
Also known as Issur Danielovitch, Issur Danielovitch Demsky, Isador Demsky
Biography
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.
★9.3
MOVIE1972
J'ai tout donné
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE1975
Once Is Not Enough
as Mike Wayne
★6.6
MOVIE1954
Ulysses
as Ulysses
★7.5
MOVIE1960
Spartacus
as Spartacus
★8.3
MOVIE1957
Paths of Glory
as Col. Dax
★7.1
MOVIE1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Ned Land
★6.4
MOVIE1991
Oscar
as Eduardo Provolone
★6.7
MOVIE1980
The Final Countdown
as Capt. Matthew Yelland
MOVIE1982
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE1967
The War Wagon
as Lomax
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday
★7.2
MOVIE1966
Is Paris Burning?
as General Patton
★7.7
MOVIE2004
Illusion
as Donald Baines
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The Vikings
as Einar
★6.9
MOVIE1965
The Heroes of Telemark
as Dr. Rolf Pedersen
★6.3
MOVIE1978
The Fury
as Peter Sandza
★6.6
MOVIE1965
In Harm's Way
as Commander Paul Eddington, Jr.
★6.1
MOVIE1967
The Way West
as Sen. William J. Tadlock
★6.9
MOVIE1953
Act of Love
as Robert Teller
★7.0
MOVIE1982
The Man from Snowy River
as Harrison / Spur
★7.6
MOVIE2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1994
Greedy
as Uncle Joe
★7.7
MOVIE1947
Out of the Past
as Whit Sterling
★7.1
MOVIE1959
Last Train from Gun Hill
as Marshal Matt Morgan
★7.2
MOVIE1956
Lust for Life
as Vincent van Gogh
★7.8
MOVIE1951
Ace in the Hole
as Charles Tatum
★6.7
MOVIE1959
The Devil's Disciple
as Richard Dudgeon
★6.4
MOVIE1960
Strangers When We Meet
as Larry Coe
★5.3
MOVIE1980
Saturn 3
as Major Adam
★5.7
MOVIE1997
Completely Cuckoo
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1964
Seven Days in May
as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey
★6.7
MOVIE1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
as Jonathan Shields
★6.4
MOVIE1955
The Indian Fighter
as Johnny Hawks
★7.5
MOVIE2020
Kubrick by Kubrick
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1953
The Story of Three Loves
as Pierre Narval
★6.4
MOVIE1966
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus
★5.6
MOVIE1980
Home Movies
as Dr. Tuttle
MOVIETBA
Monsters of the Deep
as Himself
★5.7
MOVIE1979
The Villain
as Cactus Jack
★6.8
MOVIE1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Paris Pitman, Jr.
★6.0
MOVIE2003
It Runs in the Family
as Mitchell Gromberg
★7.4
MOVIE1962
Lonely are the Brave
as John W. "Jack" Burns
★4.5
MOVIE1991
Welcome to Veraz
as Quentin
★4.5
MOVIE1968
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE1951
Detective Story
as Det. James McLeod
★5.9
MOVIE1962
Two Weeks in Another Town
as Jack Andrus
★7.3
MOVIE1988
Inherit the Wind
as Matthew Harrison Brady
★4.9
MOVIE1957
Top Secret Affair
as Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin
★6.0
MOVIE1986
Tough Guys
as Archie Long
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Man Without a Star
as Dempsey Rae
★7.4
MOVIE1951
Along the Great Divide
as Marshal Len Merrick
★6.1
MOVIE1968
The Brotherhood
as Frank Ginetta
★6.8
MOVIE1961
The Last Sunset
as Brendan 'Bren' O'Malley
★6.0
MOVIE2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
as Self - Actor
★5.9
MOVIE1983
Eddie Macon's Run
as Carl 'Buster' Marzack
★6.5
MOVIE1969
The Arrangement
as Eddie Anderson
★6.8
MOVIE1953
The Juggler
as Hans Muller
★8.3
MOVIE1994
A Century of Cinema
as Self
★2.0
MOVIE2021
Morceaux de Cannes
★6.7
MOVIE2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self – Interviewee
★7.2
MOVIE1949
A Letter to Three Wives
as George Phipps
MOVIE1972
Kirk Douglas
as Himself
★7.2
MOVIE1986
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE1952
The Big Trees
as Jim Fallon
★6.6
MOVIE1947
I Walk Alone
as Noll "Dink" Turner
★8.0
MOVIE1996
The Universal Story
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE2012
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1971
The Light at the Edge of the World
as Will Denton
★6.4
MOVIE1950
Young Man with a Horn
as Rick Martin
★5.8
MOVIE1971
A Gunfight
as Will Tenneray
★7.1
MOVIE1946
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
as Walter O'Neil
MOVIETBA
My Life As Roger Moore
as Self (Archivfilmmaterial)
★8.0
MOVIE2024
From Roger Moore with Love
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1988
All-Time Movie Greats
as Self (archive footage)
★4.8
MOVIE1968
A Lovely Way to Die
as Jameson Schuyler
★8.0
MOVIE2020
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
as Self (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1975
Posse
as Howard Nightingale
★5.1
MOVIE1992
Two-Fisted Tales
as General Calthrop
★7.7
MOVIE1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage)
★5.0
MOVIE1971
Catch Me a Spy
as Andrej
★6.1
MOVIE1963
For Love or Money
as Deke Gentry
★6.7
MOVIE1983
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Self
★5.1
MOVIE1976
Victory at Entebbe
as Herschel Vilnofsky
★7.0
MOVIE1988
The Racing Experience
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE1961
Town Without Pity
as Major Garrett
★6.7
MOVIE1955
The Racers
as Gino Borgesa
★6.5
MOVIE2019
Mike Wallace Is Here
as (archive footage)
MOVIE2009
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
MOVIE2014
Hollywood au pied du terril
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1994
The Lies Boys Tell
as Ed Reese
★5.7
MOVIE1950
The Glass Menagerie
as Jim O'Connor
★5.6
MOVIE1948
The Walls of Jericho
as Tucker Wedge
★6.7
MOVIE2007
Trumbo
as Self - Interviewee
★2.0
MOVIE2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1949
Champion
as Midge Kelly
★7.1
MOVIE2017
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
as Self
MOVIE1965
The Making of A Movie
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Peter Niles
★2.0
MOVIE1954
Operation Undersea
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE1977
Holocaust 2000
as Robert Caine
★6.2
MOVIE1963
The Hook
as Sgt. P.J. Briscoe
★6.4
MOVIE1984
Draw!
as Harry H. Holland aka Handsome Harry Holland
★6.7
MOVIE1963
The List of Adrian Messenger
as George Brougham / Vicar Atlee / Mr. Pythian / Arthur Henderson
★7.3
MOVIE2009
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget
as Self
★8.2
MOVIE2015
Johnny Cash: American Rebel
as Self (archive photo)
★6.3
MOVIE1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
★8.0
MOVIE1982
Remembrance Of Love
as Joe Rabin
★8.0
MOVIE1972
The Special London Bridge Special
as The Indian Fighter
★7.2
MOVIE1985
Amos
as Amos Lasher
MOVIE1986
Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick
as Self
★2.0
MOVIE1985
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2015
I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas
as Self - Interviewee
★5.2
MOVIE1999
Diamonds
as Harry Agensky
★5.7
MOVIE1973
Scalawag
as Peg
★5.9
MOVIE1972
The Master Touch
as Steve Wallace
MOVIE2003
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
★6.1
MOVIE1948
My Dear Secretary
as Owen Waterbury
★8.7
MOVIE1999
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
as General Kalthrob
★6.0
MOVIE2008
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1991
Movie Tough Guys
as Self (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE2005
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE2008
Empire State Building Murders
as Jim Kovalski
★8.1
MOVIE1990
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea
as Ned Land (archive footage)
★6.5
MOVIE1952
The Big Sky
as Jim Deakins
★5.0
MOVIE2001
FBI contre Hollywood
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1954
The Disneyland Story
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1992
The Secret
as Grandpa Mike Dunmore
★5.6
MOVIE1966
Kirk Douglas
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE1974
Mousey
as George Anderson
★7.3
MOVIE2001
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2019
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light
as Self
MOVIE1956
Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?
as Self
MOVIE2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
as Self