Aktor Hollywood Legendaris Kirk Douglas Wafat di Usia 103 Tahun, 3 Kali Masuk Nominasi Oscar

Dan setelah perang ia kembali ke New York City, memulai karier dalam teater dan iklan radio sambil mencari peluang di Broadway.

Douglas dibantu rekannya Lauren Bacall memperoleh peran pertamanya dalam film Hal B. Wallis, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), bersama Barbara Stanwyck.

Ia kemudian meraih 3 nominasi Oscar untuk film Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful, dan Lust for Life.

Ia tidak memenangkan satupun, tetapi meraih penghargaan khusus pada 1996 untuk "50 years as a moral and creative force in the motion picture community".

Dalam wawancara, ia selalu menyebut Lonely Are the Brave (1962) sebagai karya terbaiknya.

Data Diri:

Nama: Kirk Douglas
Nama Lahir: Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Lahir: 9 Desember 1916
Tempat Lahir: Amsterdam, New York, A.S.
Meninggal: 5 Februari 2020
Tempat Meninggal: Beverly Hills, California, A.S.
Nama lain: Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Pendidikan: Universitas St. Lawrence
Pekerjaan: Aktor, produser, sutradara, pengarang, tentara
Tahun aktif: 1946–2008
Partai politik: Demokrat
Istri: Diana Douglas (k. 1943; c. 1951)
Anne Buydens (k. 1954; w. 2020)
Anak: Michael (l. 1944)
Joel (l. 1947)
Peter (l. 1955)
Eric (1958–2004)
Karier: militer
Pengabdian: Amerika Serikat
Dinas/cabang: Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat
Lama dinas: 1941–1944
Pangkat: US-O2
Perang/pertempuran: Perang Dunia II

Filmografi
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Morning Becames Electra (1947)
I Walk Alone (1948)
The Walls of Jericho (1948)
My Dear Secretary (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
Along the Great Divide (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)
The Racers (1955)
Man Without a Star (1955)
The Indian Fighter (1955)
Ulysses (1955)
Top Secret Affair (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957) (also producer)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Town Without Pity (1961)
Lonely are the Brave (1962)
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)
A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
The Arrangement (1969)
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
To Catch a Spy (1971)
A Gunfight (1971)
The Master Touch (1972)
Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975)
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
The Villain (1979)
Saturn 3 (1980)
The Final Countdown (1980)
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
Draw! (1984)
Tough Guys (1986)
Welcome to Veraz (1991)
The Secret (1992) (televisi)
A Century of Cinema (1994) (dokumentasi)
Greedy (1994)
Diamonds (1999)
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Illusion (2004)
Meurtres à l'Empire State Building (judul AS: Empire State Building Murders) (2008)

Buku
The Ragman's Son. Simon & Schuster, 1988
Dance with the Devil. Random House, 1990
The Gift. Warner Books, 1992
Last Tango in Brooklyn. Century, 1994
The Broken Mirror: A Novella. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997
Young Heroes of the Bible. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1999
Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning. Simon and Schuster, 2001
My Stroke of Luck. HarperCollins, 2003
Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning. John Wiley & Sons, 2007
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist. Open Road Media, 2012
Life Could Be Verse: Reflections on Love, Loss, and What Really Matters, December 2014