Kirk Douglas (born December 9 1916) is an American actor. Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, he was born in Amsterdam, New York to Belarusian-Jewish parents (who came from Homel). His son, Michael Douglas, is also an actor.

Popular at home and around the world, Kirk Douglas received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 and the French Legion of Honor in 1985.

Douglas received three Academy Award nominations for his work in Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful and Lust for Life. Douglas did not win any competitive Oscars, but received a special Oscar in 1996 for "50 years as a moral and creative force in the motion picture community."

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Kirk Douglas has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6263 Hollywood Blvd. In 1984, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

In October 2004, "Kirk Douglas Way" in Palm Springs, California was named in his honor by the Palm Springs International Film Society and International Film Festival .

Filmography

• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
• I Walk Alone (1948)
• The Walls of Jericho (1948)
• My Dear Secretary (1949)
• A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
• Champion (1949)
• Young Man with a Horn (1950)
• The Glass Menagerie (1950)
• Along the Great Divide (1951)
• Ace in the Hole (1951)
• Detective Story (1951)
• The Big Trees (1952)
• The Big Sky (1952)
• The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
• The Story of Three Loves (1953)
• The Juggler (1953)
• Act of Love (1953)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• The Racers (1955)
• Ulysses (1955)
• Man Without a Star (1955)
• The Indian Fighter (1955)
• (1956) (short subject)
• Lust for Life (1956)
• Top Secret Affair (1957)
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
• Paths of Glory (1957) (also producer)
• The Vikings (1958)
• Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
• The Devil's Disciple (1959)
• Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959) (documentary)
• Strangers When We Meet (1960)
• Spartacus (1960) (also executive producer)
• Town Without Pity (1961)
• The Last Sunset (1961)
• Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
• Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
• The Hook (1963)
• The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
• For Love or Money (1963)
• Seven Days in May (1964)
• The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
• In Harm's Way (1965)
• Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
• Is Paris Burning? (1966)
• The Way West (1967)
• The War Wagon (1967)
• Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968) (short subject)
• Once Upon a Wheel (1968) (documentary)
• A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
• The Brotherhood (1968) (also producer)
• The Arrangement (1969)
• There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
• To Catch a Spy (1971)
• The Light at the Edge of the World (1971) (also producer)
• A Gunfight (1971)
• The Master Touch (1972)
• Scalawag (1973) (also director)
• Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975)
• Posse (1975) (also director and producer)
• Holocaust 2000 (1977)
• The Fury (1978)
• Home Movies (1979)
• The Villain (1979)
• Saturn 3 (1980)
• The Final Countdown (1980)
• The Man from Snowy River (1982)
• Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
• Tough Guys (1986)
• Oscar (1991)
• Welcome to Veraz (1991)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• Greedy (1994)
• Diamonds (1999)
• It Runs in the Family (2003)
• Illusion (2004)

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