Kirk Douglas

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1916 age 0

   Born

2. 1947 age 31

   CreditOut of the Past

3. 1949 age 33

   CreditA Letter to Three Wives

4. 1951 age 35

   CreditAce in the Hole

5. 1952 age 36

   CreditThe Bad and the Beautiful

6. 1954 age 38

   Credit20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

7. 1956 age 40

   CreditLust for Life

8. 1957 age 41

   CreditPaths of Glory

   CreditPaths of Gloryexecutive producer

9. 1958 age 42

   CreditThe Vikings

   CreditThe Vikingsexecutive producer

10. 1960 age 44

    CreditSpartacus

    CreditSpartacusexecutive producer

11. 1966 age 50

    CreditIs Paris Burning?

12. 1975 age 59

    CreditOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestexecutive producer

13. 2020 age 103

    Died

• CWCalder Willingham3 titles
• SKStanley Kubrick2 titles
• OWOrson Welles2 titles
• JHJohn Houseman2 titles
• TCTony Curtis2 titles
• FFFranklyn Farnum2 titles
• PBPeter Brocco2 titles
• JDJames Donald2 titles
• RWRobert J. Wilke2 titles
• TCTed de Corsia2 titles

• Spouse

  • DDDiana Douglas

• Children

  • MDMichael Douglas
  • PDPeter Douglas

• Studied under

  • JCJeff Corey

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Taught.

• Jo wanted to be pumped up before she went on to do a scene, she asked me to slap her... They did the scene over and over, never quite right. Every time she came over to me and asked me to hit her, and hit her harder.

  Kirk Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On working with in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); as quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2003) by Leslie Halliwell (ed. John Walker), p. 468

  Kirk Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As actors it is easy for us to play the hero. We get to fight the bad guys and stand up for justice. In real life, the choices are not always so clear. The Hollywood Blacklist, recreated powerfully on screen in Trumbo, was a time I remember well. The choices were hard. The consequences were painful and very real. During the blacklist, I had friends who went into exile when no one would hire them; actors who committed suicide in despair. My young co-star in Detective Story (1951), Lee Grant, was unable to work for twelve years after she refused to testify against her husband before the House Un-American Activities Committee. I was threatened that using a Blacklisted writer for Spartacus –– my friend Dalton Trumbo — would mark me as a “Commie-lover” and end my career. There are times when one has to stand up for principle. I am so proud of my fellow actors who use their public influence to speak out against injustice. At 98 years old, I have learned one lesson from history: It very often

  Kirk Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The foreign directors are always fumbling about in obscurity, and the critics are always writing about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that shit, to disguise the fact that they don't understand the first damn thing about it either.

  Kirk Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. I responded to that in making the picture. I put a lot of warmth into that character. Those immigrants were tough, more intensive than people are these days.

  Kirk Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

  Kirk Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0