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Kirk Douglas

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Kirk Douglas

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Also known as Issur Danielovitch, Izzy Demsky, Isador Demsky, Issur Danielovich, Issur Danielovitch Demsky

American actor (1916–2020)

OverviewAI-generated

Kirk Douglas was a male artist from the United Kingdom, active in the fields of audio drama, audiobook, author, and comedy. His professional work period began in 1946 and concluded in 2008. He is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. Douglas was born on December 9, 1916, and died on February 5, 2020. He had four children.

His works include five items listed in Crossref. He is associated with the tags Disney, Soundtrack, actor, and film. Similar artists include Paul Frees, Hayley Mills, Hayley Mills & Maurice Chevalier, Disney Chorus, and John Davidson & Leslie Ann Warren. He has 13,737 listeners and a playcount of 46,321 on Last.fm. Douglas is referenced by 2,040 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1952-03-11
Active to
2001-05-11
audio dramaaudiobookauthorbritishcomedyenglish
Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
13,751
Total plays
46,356

Tags

DisneySoundtrackactorAllfilm

Similar artists

Paul FreesHayley MillsHayley Mills & Maurice ChevalierDisney ChorusJohn Davidson & Leslie Ann Warren

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 76,010x

  2. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

    · 2009 · cited 58,761x

  3. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

    · 2011 · cited 56,565x

  4. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

    · 2003 · cited 52,690x

  5. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

    · 2009 · cited 23,432x

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Quotes

  • “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.”
  • “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”
  • “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.”
  • “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.”
  • “I love champions. A champion has something special about him.”
  • “Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films and was known for his explosive acting style. He was named by the American Film Institute the 17th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema.

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.

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