Kirk Douglas
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Douglas played an unscrupulous boxing hero in ''Champion'' (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. His other early films include ''Out of the Past'' (1947); ''Young Man with a Horn'' (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day; ''Ace in the Hole'' (1951); and ''Detective Story'' (1951), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He received his second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in ''The Bad and the Beautiful'' (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and earned his third for portraying Vincent van Gogh in ''Lust for Life'' (1956), a role for which he won the Golden Globe for the Best Actor in a Drama. He also starred with James Mason in the adventure ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' (1954), a large box-office hit.
In September 1949, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as ''Paths of Glory'' (1957) and ''Spartacus'' (1960). In those two films, he collaborated with the then relatively unknown director Stanley Kubrick, taking lead roles in both films. Douglas helped to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write ''Spartacus'' with an official on-screen credit. He produced and starred in ''Lonely Are the Brave'' (1962) and ''Seven Days in May'' (1964), the latter opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films. In 1963, he 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. Douglas continued acting into the 1980s, appearing in such films as ''Saturn 3'' (1980), ''The Man from Snowy River'' (1980), ''Tough Guys'' (1986), a reunion with Lancaster, and in the television version of ''Inherit the Wind'' (1988) plus in an episode of ''Touched by an Angel'' in 2002, for which he received his third nomination for an Emmy Award.
As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas received an Academy Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he wrote ten novels and memoirs. After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996, he focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life. He lived with his second wife, producer Anne Buydens, until his death in 2020. A centenarian, Douglas was one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1997
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Published 2007
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Published 1990
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Published 1989
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6Akuma to odoru /悪魔と踊る /by Douglas, Kirk, 1916-2020
Published 1992
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7Kāku Dagurasu jiden : kuzuya no musuko /カーク・ダグラス自伝 : くず屋の息子 /by Douglas, Kirk, 1916-2020
Published 1989
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Published 1992
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Published 1992
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Published 2002
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