Farewell to Kirk Douglas: Legendary Actor and Icon of Classic Cinema Dies at 103
Kirk Douglas, iconic star of Spartacus and a legend of Hollywood’s Golden Age, dies at 103, leaving a powerful legacy in film and beyond.
Actor Kirk Douglas has passed away at the age of 103. Kirk is survived by his wife, Anne, to whom he was married for 65 years.
His son Michael gave the sad news to People magazine: “It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas has left us today at the age of 103. To the world he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to. To me and my brothers Joel and Peter, he was simply a father. To Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great-grandson, their loving grandfather. And to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband.”
The acclaimed Spartacus actor was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam (New York). His performance in Time Does Not Erase opened many doors, being well received by audiences and critics. In The Unbroken (1949) he plays an unscrupulous and ambitious boxer who leaves his family in search of fame. For this, Douglas received his first Oscar nomination.
Douglas was credited in 91 films and directed by the greatest filmmakers of the golden age: Jacques Tourneur, Mark Robson, Michael Curtiz, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Howard Hawks, Edward Dmytryk, Anatole Litvak, Henry Hathaway, King Vidor, Robert Aldrich, John Huston, John Frankenheimer, Otto Preminger, Anthony Mann, René Clement, Martin Ritt, Stanley Donen and George Miller. However, his strong genius meant that only a few (among them Joseph L. Mankiwicz and Vincente Minnelli) wanted to repeat the experience of directing him.
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