Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, December 9, 1916, died February 5, 2020) is a legendary movie star and film producer. His first film was The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwick, then Young Man with a Horn (1950) by Michael Curtiz with Lauren Bacall. Among his best films are: Out of the Past (1947) with Robert Mitchum, Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951) by Billy Wilder, Detective Story (1951) by William Wyler, The Big Sky (1952) by Howard Hawks, The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) by Vincent Minnelli, Lust for Life (1956) about Vincent van Gogh, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) by John Sturges, Out of the Past (1957) with Robert Mitchum, Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960) by Stanley Kubrick, Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Seven Days in May (1964) by John Frankenheimer with Burt Lancaster, The Arrangement (1969) by Elia Kazan.
Read Kirk Douglas’ classic profile by Elisa Leonelli
Read Kirk Douglas, The Last Legend by Gabriel Lerman
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Read Ready for My deMille: Profiles in Excellence – Kirk Douglas,1968 by Philip Berk
Golden Globe Awards
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1986 NomineeBest Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television -
1957 WinnerBest Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama -
1952 NomineeBest Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama