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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:37 pm Post subject: Kirk Douglas dead at 103 |
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Quote: | Kirk Douglas, Hollywood Icon and Spartacus Star, Dies at 103
With over 92 acting credits, including some 75 movies, Douglas became a superstar even before the term was coined
Kirk Douglas, one of the first box office stars of the silver screen, has died. He was 103.
The acting legend, who had been in good health since suffering a stroke in 1996, is survived by his wife of 65 years Anne Buydens, and his three sons: Michael, Joel, and Eric.
“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” Michael said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.”
The actor continued, “But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband.”
“Kirk’s life was well lived, and he leaves a legacy in film that will endure for generations to come, and a history as a renowned philanthropist who worked to aid the public and bring peace to the planet,” Michael added. “Let me end with the words I told him on his last birthday and which will always remain true. Dad- I love you so much and I am so proud to be your son.”
In December, Michael became a Golden Globe nominee for The Kominsky Method as his father rang in his 103rd birthday.
To celebrate, Michael, 75, shared a sweet Instagram photo of his famous father and himself, thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for nominating him on the same day as Kirk’s milestone birthday.
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Kirk Douglas HERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY
“What a great day. Thank you HFPA for the Golden Globes nomination and for making my Dad proud on his 103 birthday!” Michael wrote.
In November 2018, Douglas attended Michael’s induction at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in November — where the Basic Instinct star honored his father.
“It means so much to me, Dad, that you’re here today,” Michael said tearing up. “Thank you for your advice, inspiration, and I’ll say it simply and with all my heart: I’m so proud to be your son.”
RELATED: A Look Back at Kirk Douglas’s Incredible Rags-to-Riches Journey in His Own Words
With over 92 acting credits, including some 75 movies, seven of which co-starred his friend Burt Lancaster, Douglas became a superstar even before the term was coined.
He received his first Academy Award nomination in 1950 for Champion, and was nominated again in 1953 for the Hollywood expose The Bad and the Beautiful, and once more in 1957 for his performance as Vincent Van Gogh in the biopic Lust for Life.
In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community.
While Douglas’ on and off-screen bravado could be overpowering, and even difficult at times, he was a man of heartfelt conviction, hiring blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo — and giving him full-screen credit — to write the 1960 epic Spartacus, in which Douglas starred and served as executive producer.
Kirk Douglas and Frank Sinatra
Kirk Douglas and Frank Sinatra
“It was such a terrible, shameful time,” Douglas told PEOPLE about the communist purge of the entertainment industry during the ’40s and 50’s. “Dalton was in prison because he refused to answer questions, so I decided, the hell with it! I’m going to put his name on it. I think that’s the thing I’m most proud of because it broke the blacklist.”
As told in his 1988 autobiography, The Ragman’s Son, Douglas — who was born Issur Danielovitch Demsky — was born the poor son of an illiterate Russian-Jewish immigrant.
Douglas spoke about his father to PEOPLE, revealing that, “My father was not very affectionate, he was never interested in what I was doing. I had six sisters and no brothers and I wanted to be close to my father and he just ignored me.”
Instead, he says he found affection from his mother and became determined to not be as distant with his children as his father was with him.
“I’m much more demonstrative with my kids about hugging and kissing them and telling them that I love them,” he said. “My father wasn’t like that.”
Peter Douglas, Joel Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, and Eric Douglas
Peter Douglas, Joel Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, and Eric Douglas RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE
The actor, known as Izzy, had some 40 jobs growing up in Amsterdam, N.Y., including newsboy, before acting in high school plays sent him on the course that would eventually make him a household name. He studied at Manhattan’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts alongside classmate Lauren Bacall, who later helped get him a screen test that led to his first movie role, opposite Barbara Stanwyck, in 1946’s The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.
Another Academy classmate was Diana Dill, to whom Douglas would be married from 1943 until their 1951 divorce. She is the mother of two of Douglas’s sons, Michael, born in 1944, and Joel, born in 1947.
Heading a Hollywood family, though, was often as difficult as being in one. As Michael has said on several occasions, including during his 1987 Best Actor Oscar acceptance speech for Wall Street, growing up under so large a shadow as Douglas’s was not always easy.
In 1979, Michael told PEOPLE, “Kirk Douglas was certainly a hard act to follow. I mean, there he was hanging from the cross in Spartacus, walking across the ranks of oars in The Vikings …” Added Kirk: “I think having a famous father was a pain in the ass for him.”
Kirk Douglas with his wife Anne and his four sons: Joel, Peter, Eric and Michael Douglas
Kirk Douglas with his wife Anne and his four sons: Joel, Peter, Eric and Michael Douglas HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY
The family patriarch also never wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. “I didn’t want Michael to be an actor,” he told PEOPLE. “I wanted him to be a lawyer or a doctor, like many fathers. But he’s a good actor, he’s my favorite actor.”
As the years progressed, so did their relationship, even as the family faced such adversities as the death of youngest Kirk’s son (and Michael’s brother) Erik at age 46 in 2004, and the five-year prison sentence of Michael’s son Cameron, in 2010, for drug dealing. That same year, Michael was also diagnosed with throat cancer.
RELATED: Kirk Douglas, 101, Lovingly Gazes at 8-Month-Old Great-Granddaughter in Sweet Generational Photo
But there were many good times, too, including Kirk’s joy at welcoming Michael’s second wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones into the family, in a lavish 2000 wedding — and the birth of Michael and Catherine’s first child (they have two), son Dylan, born Aug. 8, 2000.
“You know, Dylan has a dimple bigger than mine,” the proud grandpa told PEOPLE. “[But] I think he looks more like Catherine. Catherine with a dimple. Not bad!”
The legendary actor spent the last years of his life surrounded by his loved ones including Cameron, who was released from prison in 2016 and welcomed his first child, daughter Lua Izzy, in December 2017.
Lua Izzy was named in honor of Douglas and is his first great-grandchild.
He celebrated his 103rd birthday with his family — and several tributes from his relatives including Michael and Catherine.
The actress shared an old shot of the two on her Instagram Monday to celebrate the iconic actor’s latest milestone. The sweet picture, which appears to be several years old, featured Kirk sitting on her lap as the two smiled for the camera.
“This guy on my knee, is 103!!!!! Happy Birthday Pappy!!! I love you with all my heart,” Zeta-Jones, 50, said.
For his 101st birthday, the star celebrated with two cakes: one decorated with sunflowers in honor of his performance as Vincent Van Gogh in the film Lust for Life, and the other depicting red boxing gloves that honored his first Academy Award-nominated performance in Champion.
The actor was also paid a visit by Dame Judi Dench who told PEOPLE at the time, “I will never forget this moment. He is a legend in our family.“ |
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RIP _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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One of the true icons.
RIP Mr. Douglas
RIP Spartacus _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
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RIP.
I thought he had already passed for some reason.
Btw, welcome back C M B. Huey never felt right. _________________ KOBE |
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An evil person |
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RIP |
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Damn _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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BFan, it'd be great if you could fix the formatting in your post so it doesn't stretch the page out. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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He was 65 when I was born. And I'm almost 40. What a long long life. _________________ ¡Hala Madrid! |
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One of the all time greats who had a great run. Love his work in Ace in the Hole and Paths of Glory especially. |
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Absolute legend, sad to bid farewell to one of the last from the golden era. RIP |
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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You guys realize Spartacus was worse than Weinstein in his day right ? |
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AD23 wrote: | You guys realize Spartacus was worse than Weinstein in his day right ? |
No. Where's that coming from? |
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Thanks for the fix!
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AD23 wrote: | You guys realize Spartacus was worse than Weinstein in his day right ? |
Yes, that one unfounded and not even by name allegation. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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Omar Little wrote: | AD23 wrote: | You guys realize Spartacus was worse than Weinstein in his day right ? |
Yes, that one unfounded and not even by name allegation. |
The "worse than Weinstein" comment is easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen posted in a long time . . . which is saying a lot. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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Baron Von Humongous wrote: | AD23 wrote: | You guys realize Spartacus was worse than Weinstein in his day right ? |
No. Where's that coming from? |
Kirk Douglas allegation
Another alleged case was exposed after the death of actress Natalie Wood, who died in 1981 when she fell from her yacht and drowned. In 2001, a book about the life of the actress by Suzanne Finstad revealed that she had been the victim of an alleged rape occurring during the 1950s when she was 16 years old, committed by a major actor at the time.[72] Following its publication, it was speculated that the actor was Kirk Douglas. In 2012, an anonymous blogger claiming to be a Hollywood insider published a post alleging that Douglas, while drunk, had raped Wood when the actress was 16 years old. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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jonnybravo wrote: | RIP.
I thought he had already passed for some reason.
Btw, welcome back C M B. Huey never felt right. |
I don't need anymore new drugs |
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Just watched A Man Without A Star last night RIP _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
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So we have an old accusation (with no corroboration) where the accuser never named the perpetrator, where some people speculated it might be Douglas, and that gets picked up by an anonymous blogger years later who hints at claiming to be Robert Downey jr., who says it was Douglas.
Yeah, that seems solid. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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Spartacus, Ben Hur....enough said.
Legendary actor, RIP _________________ Love, Laker Lanny |
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Omar Little wrote: |
So we have an old accusation (with no corroboration) where the accuser never named the perpetrator, where some people speculated it might be Douglas, and that gets picked up by an anonymous blogger years later who hints at claiming to be Robert Downey jr., who says it was Douglas.
Yeah, that seems solid. |
Yeah, I guess when you put it like that . . . WAY worse than Harvey. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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Why do people dig dirt on the deceased? What pleasure does one derive from that? Old Adage: LINK _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
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