Kirk douglas biography and photos 2016
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We celebrate the 100th birthday of Kirk Douglas, Hollywood icon, three-time nominee who won a Golden Globe as Best Actor for Lust for Life (1957), as well as the HFPA's highest honor, the Cecil B. deMille award in 1968.This year the actor and producer also marks 70 years in Hollywood: his first movie was the noir The Strange Lives of Martha Ivers, (1946).
Douglas is one of the few stars of Hollywood's 'Golden Age’ still with us, and still active. He last appeared on the screen just eight years ago, in Empire State Building Murder (2008), appropriately a tribute in doc-crime-drama form celebrating American film noir. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 1930s and 40s when Douglas was an unknown, struggling actor in Manhattan.
His beginnings could not have been more humble. He was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, to Jewish immigrants from what today is Belarus. (He changed his name when he enlisted during World War II). The immigrant life, raising six daughters and one son, was hard on the Danielovitchs, as Douglas would later describe in his 1988 autobiography, "The Ragman's Son": "My father, … became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, …. Even i
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Remembering Kirk Douglas: His life in photos
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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas has died at 103. A look back at his career through the years.
Paul Drinkwater, NBCBorn in Amsterdam, New York, Douglas made his Broadway debut in 1941, served in the U.S. Navy and embarked on a screen career in 1946, ultimately starring in more than 90 movies.
Everett Collection'Spartacus,' a film that helped break the Hollywood blacklist, was released in 1960.
PHOTOFESTKirk Douglas in a scene from 'The Bad and the Beautiful.'
MGM/UAHis co-star in 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was Lana Turner.
MGM/UA HOME ENTERTAINMENTKirk Douglas accepted his honorary award on stage at the 68th annual Academy Awards in 1996.
ROBERT HANASHIRO, USA TODAYHe gave a wave to the stars in the crowd at the ceremony.
ROBERT HANASHIRO, USA TODAYFollowing a stroke in 1996, Douglas sat down with Barbara Walters to talk about his rehabilitation and his long journey back to health.
MARIA MELIN, ABC NEWSAt 80, he wrote his autobiography, 'Climbing the Mountain.'
DOUG PARK, GPNThe star relaxes in his back yard in 1997.
ROBERT HANASHIRO, USA TODAYLauren Bacall, Douglas, Janet Leigh and Karl Malden posed at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1999.
KEVIN WINTER, CELEBRITY PHOTOIn 1999,
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Kirk Douglas
American entity (1916–2020)
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| Born | Issur Danielovitch (1916-12-09)December 9, 1916 Amsterdam, Novel York, U.S. |
| Died | February 5, 2020(2020-02-05) (aged 103) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Westwood Settlement Memorial Greens Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, California |
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| Alma mater | St. Soldier University |
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| Years active | 1944–2008 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouses | Diana Dill (m. 1943; div. 1951) |
| Children | |
| Service / branch | United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1941–1944 |
| Website | www.kirkdouglas.com |
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