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2001. Actor Kirk Douglas poses for a photo

during an interview at his home in Beverly Hills

 

Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP

 

Kirk Douglas – a life in pictures

Kirk Douglas,

the last great star of Hollywood’s golden age,

once said he had ‘made a career playing sons of bitches’,

a career that began in 1946

with the film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

Douglas was Oscar nominated three times

– for Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful and Lust For Life –

but had to be content with the honorary award

he was eventually given in 1995.

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Thu 6 Feb 2020    01.10 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2020/feb/06/
kirk-douglas-a-life-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956.

Kirk Douglas

poses beside a self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh,

painted in 1886-1887,

to show his remarkable resemblance to the great painter.

 

Douglas played the role of Van Gogh in Lust for Life.

 

Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

 

Kirk Douglas – a life in pictures

Kirk Douglas, the last great star of Hollywood’s golden age,

once said he had ‘made a career playing sons of bitches’,

a career that began in 1946

with the film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

Douglas was Oscar nominated three times

– for Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful and Lust For Life –

but had to be content with the honorary award

he was eventually given in 1995.

G

Thu 6 Feb 2020    01.10 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2020/feb/06/
kirk-douglas-a-life-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch)    1916-2020

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/kirkdouglas

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/08/
803973824/opinion-kirk-douglass-passion-project-after-spartacus

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2020/feb/06/
kirk-douglas-a-life-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/feb/06/
kirk-douglas-a-career-in-clips

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/feb/06/
kirk-douglas-dead-film-peter-bradshaw-handsome

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/06/
kirk-douglas-hollywood-legend-and-star-of-spartacus-dies-aged-103

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/
movies/kirk-douglas-movies-streaming.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/05/
156511592/kirk-douglas-hollywood-tough-guy-and-spartacus-superstar-dies-at-103

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/
movies/kirk-douglas-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/
546730779/celebrating-30-years-of-fresh-air-the-kirk-douglas-interview

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/12/
kirk-douglas-i-never-thought-id-live-to-100-thats-shocked-me

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/
movies/diana-douglas-actress-and-first-wife-of-kirk-douglas-dies-at-92.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/28/
guardianobituaries.usa

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/18/
movies/spartacus-a-classic-restored.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/watching/recommendations/
watching-film-spartacus - 1960

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1960/10/07/
archives/screen-spartacus-enters-the-arena3hour-production-has-premiere-at.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/watching/recommendations/
watching-film-paths-of-glory - 1957

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/26/
archives/screen-shameful-incident-of-war-paths-of-glory-has-premiere-at.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1956/09/18/
archives/screen-colorfull-life-of-van-gogh-lust-for-life-tells-story-through.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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