Biography: life and films
Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer whose birth name is Issur Danielovitch. He was born in Amsterdam, New York, USA on 9th December 1916.His best films as an actor include Jacques Tourneur's crime-thriller Out of the Past (1947), Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), John Sturges's Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) and John Frankenheimer's thriller Seven Days in May (1964), and whose best work as a film director include Scalawag (1973) and Posse (1975).
Kirk Douglas has so far appeared in 77 films, was cinematographer on 2 films, directed 2 films and supplied the music for 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Vincente Minnelli (4 films), Stanley Kubrick (2), Richard Fleischer (2), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2), John Sturges (2), Jeff Kanew (2) and Brian De Palma (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (49 films), Western (15), romance (13), comedy (12), Thriller (10), War (9), history (4), crime-thriller (4), Horror (3), Documentary (3), comedy-thriller (2), comedy-romance (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Kirk Douglas over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; m = musician; c = cinematographer
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) [a]
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) [a]
I Walk Alone (1948) [a]
The Walls of Jericho (1948) [a]
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) [a]
Champion (1949) [a]
My Dear Secretary (1949) [a]
The Glass Menagerie (1950) [a]
Young Man with a Horn (1950) [a]
Ace in the Hole (1951) [a]
Along the Great Divide (1951) [a]
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [a]
The Big Sky (1952) [a]
The Big Trees (1952) [a]
The Juggler (1953) [a]
The Story of Three Loves (1953) [a]
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) [a]
Ulisse (1954) [a]
Man Without a Star (1955) [a]
The Indian Fighter (1955) [a]
The Racers (1955) [a]
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) [a]
Top Secret Affair (1957) [a]
The Vikings (1958) [a]
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) [a]
The Devil's Disciple (1959) [a]
Spartacus (1960) [a]
Strangers When We Meet (1960) [a]
The Last Sunset (1961) [a]
Town Without Pity (1961) [a]
Lonely Are the Brave (1962) [a]
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) [a]
For Love or Money (1963) [a]
The Hook (1963) [a]
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) [a]
In Harm's Way (1965) [a]
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) [a]
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) [a]
The War Wagon (1967) [a]
The Way West (1967) [a]
A Lovely Way to Die (1968) [a]
The Brotherhood (1968) [a]
The Arrangement (1969) [a]
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) [a]
A Gunfight (1971) [a]
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971) [a]
To Catch a Spy (1971) [a]
The Special London Bridge Special (1972) [a]
Un Uomo da rispettare (1972) [a]
Scalawag (1973) [a,d]
Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975) [a]
Posse (1975) [a,d]
Holocaust 2000 (1977) [a]
The Fury (1978) [a]
The Villain (1979) [a]
Home Movies (1980) [a]
Saturn 3 (1980) [a]
The Final Countdown (1980) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
The Man from Snowy River (1982) [a]
Eddie Macon's Run (1983) [a]
Tough Guys (1986) [a]
Veraz (1991) [a]
A Century of Cinema (1994) [a]
Greedy (1994) [a]
Diamonds (1999) [a]
It Runs in the Family (2003) [a]
Illusion (2004) [a]
Sutures (2009) [c]
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2010) [a]
Marilyn (2011) [m]
Whispers (2013) [c]
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