Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas , of her true name Issur Danielovitch Demsky , is an actor, producer, realizer and American writer of Ukrainian origin which was born the December 9th 1916 in Amsterdam (state of New York). It is the father of the actor and producing Michael Douglas.

Biography

True legend of Hollywood, the career of Kirk Douglas is one of richest of cinema industry American. It turned with Stanley Kubrick, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, Elia Kazan, Billy Wilder and King Vidor…

It is Lauren Bacall which helped Kirk Douglas for obtaining its first role in 1946 in film of Hal B. Wallis, the Influence of the crime ( The Strange Love off Martha Ivers ) with Barbara Stanwyck.

Kirk Douglas received four nominations of the Academy Award for her work in the Champion (Champion) , Bewitched (The Bad and the Beautiful) the and the impassioned Life of Vincent Van Gogh (Lust for Life) in the role of Vincent Van Gogh.

Douglas in 1996 a Oscar for “50 years of creative and moral force in the cinematographic community gained”.

Douglas married twice: the first time with Diana Dill (born on January 22nd, 1923, divorced in 1951) with which it had two wire, the actor Michael Douglas and the producer Joel Douglas; the second time in 1954 with Anne Buydens with which it had also two wire, the producer Peter Vincent Douglas born on November 23rd, 1955 and the actor Eric Douglas born in June 1958 and died on July 6th 2004 of a Overdose.

In 2003, it gives for the first time the counterpart to his Michael son, and his Cameron grandson with the cinema. Three generations of Douglas are joined together in a so beautiful family .

Popular in the United States and in the whole world, Kirk Douglas received the presidential medal of American Freedom (Presidential Medal off Freedom, the civil reward highest) in 1981 and the French Légion of honor in 1985.

Very on the left

Its production company bore the name of his/her adored mother: Bryna. Large Tempting, Mythomaniac and Megalomaniac notorious, it was also large a democratic by producing works very with left. Extremely rare fact with Hollywood.

It took the defense of the Indiens with a splendid Western pro-Indian the River of our loves ( the River of our loves ) of André de Toth in 1955, fustigated the fatal imbecillity of the soldiers with the paths of glory of Stanley Kubrick in 1958, produced a satire of Maccarthysme with Spartacus of Stanley Kubrick in 1961 and denounced the American dream with a Western modern and ascetic of David Miller: Seuls is untamed the ( Lonely Are The Brave ) in 1962. This last film is preferred of Kirk Douglas.

It produced also a thriller visionary with Seven days in May in 1964. Some time before the assassination of Kennedy, the film told the coup d'etat of a general of Extrême right-hand side in order to reverse the democratic government American.

Its collaboration with the scenario writer Dalton Trumbo (victim of the Black list) extended on three films: Spartacus, El Perdido ( The Last Sunset ) and Seuls is untamed the . Contrary to the legend, (matter of the historians and Kirk Douglas him even), it is not Douglas which, the first, returned the right to Trumbo to appear with the generic of a film. It is Otto Preminger which broke the first dreadful the Black list by authorizing Trumbo to sign the script of Exodus.

A career of scenario writer fallen through

After a remarkable career of producer, it will pass to the realization in the years 1970. Unfortunately, with much less success…

Scalawag in 1973, freely adapted the Island to the treasure of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the western Installation in 1975. Scalawag , film of Pirate with songs and a Kirk Douglas bearded and unijambist, will be a thundering commercial Echec. Produced by the first woman of the actor, Diana Douglas, the film will be made in very great difficulties in Yugoslavia. This first feature-length film will not even be entitled to a French distribution. One will find (while seeking well) an old copy VHS distributed illegally in the years 80. Copie pirates, of course.

Installation in 1975, another failure, will denounce the fraudulent embezzlements of a politician during the conquest of the west.

These two commercial failures will divert it definitively realization of Film.

A Sadomasochistic Star?

More than any other star male of Hollywood, Kirk Douglas cultivated a disproportionate taste for violent deaths with the screen.

During its long career, he knew (almost) all the deaths: committed suicide in the impassioned Life of Vincent Van Gogh, transpierced with the sword in the Vikings, tuberculosis in Settling of score with O.K. Corral, crucifié in Spartacus, killed by ball in El Perdido , crushed by a transporting truck of the cabinets in Seuls are untamed the, impaled alive on an old plow in the Last of the list, killed with bearing end (but by accident) in the shade of a giant, piqué by a frightening reptile in the Reptile and, at the end of The Fury, committed suicide by defenestration.

Let us note, to conclude this nonexhaustive macabre continuation, that the role which made of Kirk Douglas a star is that of a Boxeur drunk go-getter of victories (and women) in Champion in 1949. It will end all the same up dying… beaten in dead on the boxing ring.

A sincere writer and concerning

Of all the stars of Hollywood, Kirk Douglas is the only one to have written a Autobiographie also rich and complete.

In addition to some novels of fiction ( The Gift, Last tango in Brooklyn, Dance with the Devil ) it publishes the first part of its history with: The Ragman' S Its, 1988. Near to the Romance , the book is one of the best works ever written by a star of Hollywood. In spite of some somewhat mystifying kindnesses and information, it is a Introspection without make-up and often poignant on the course of small Issur. Small child choked by a multitude of big sisters and in pathetic search of recognition with respect to an indifferent father. The tone, often critical and Caustic towards itself, is a treat and the work will be a world success at the time of its exit.

The second part Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning in 2000 is an enthralling text on the discovery of the proper judeity of the actor.

The third part: My Stroke Of Luck in 2002 tells in manner Intime (and always funny) the very serious cerebral accident whose was victim the interpreter of Spartacus in 1996. Decreased and incompetent to emit the least word, Kirk Douglas tells forces it depression which followed and the redécouverte of the love of the life and his. The book is enclosed with laughing a " Handbook of survie".

The Serenity, finally reached, it publishes (at 90 years!) the last Volume of its imposing work with Let' S It Face: 90 Years off Living room, Loving, and Learning in 2006. It speaks there about balance and the quietude with which it approaches from now on the existence and speaks for the first time about the tragic Disparition about younger sound wire, Eric.

Catalog of films

External bond

  • a complete site on Kirk Douglas
  • Kirk Douglas on Internet Movie Database

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