Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director, philanthropist and author. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, 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. Douglas was known for his explosive acting style, which he displayed as a criminal defense attorney in Town Without Pity (1961).
Kirk Douglas and for 65 years by no means the lesser half of one of the most fascinating and enduring marriages in Hollywood.
She and Douglas met in Paris in 1953 when he was looking for a bilingual publicist for the film company he was planning to start.
His box-office appeal recently established by performances in films such as Young Man with a Horn (1950), Douglas had gained a reputation for being as intense and self-interested off screen as he could be on it.
He was recently divorced from his first wife, Diana Dill, who would later describe him as a “sexually voracious bird of prey”, partial to orgies and hallucinogenic drugs.
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