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Kirk Douglas Dies at age 103

Wednesday, 5 February 2020, 19:23 MJA Uncategorized 32

Kirk Douglas, Indomitable Icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103

Hollywood Reporter:

The actor starred in such films as ‘Champion,’ ‘The Bad and the Beautiful,’ ‘Lust for Life,’ ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’ and ‘Spartacus,’ to name just a few.

Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue eyes to forge one of the most indelible and indefatigable careers in Hollywood history, died Wednesday. He was 103.

“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” son Michael Douglas wrote on his Instagram account. “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.”

Douglas walked away from a helicopter crash in 1991 and suffered a severe stroke in 1996 but, ever the battler, he refused to give in. With a passionate will to survive, he was the last man standing of all the great stars of another time. more

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32 Comments on Kirk Douglas Dies at age 103

  3. Great actor. All the good ones are mostly gone. There replacements suck. Hollywood’s for the most part dead to me. Thanks for the entertainment and the memories Mr Douglas. You can’t be replaced.

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  10. One of, if not the favorite movie of mine is “The Big Sky” 1952 with Kirk Douglas and Arthur Hunnicutt. A fun adventure if there ever was one.
    The film, especially the 1st few minutes is in bad shape, but still well worth a watch.

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  13. He was in a great movie called The Vikings” with Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis, Janet Lee.
    The scenery and the music was fantastic, track written by Mario Nascommbini.
    That was in the mid 50s, funny how the things you like sticking your memory somewhere.

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  19. One of the greatest male leads of all time. Thank you for your talent and consistent portrayals of actual men in challenging situations. No super powers, no suits of high tech armor or other fake devices for explaining your strength under pressure. Just guts, brawn, acrobatic like physical abilities and a talent for finding the right roles and playing them to the fullest.

    Not many actors today who can be relied on to express actual male qualities on the big screen anymore. Hollywood today could possibly save their industry if they studied and emulated the giants of Kirk Douglas’ era.

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  31. @Ghost

    Paths of Glory was indeed an impressive film. I’d rate it as my favorite of Kirk Douglas’ films, although I haven’t seen all of them.

    He was born in 1917. Let’s put that into perspective. There were undoubtedly a few people in the world who were alive in that year, albeit very old, who were born during the Napoleonic era, which ended in, I think, 1815. Somebody in 1917 who were as old or older than 102 would have been in that category. Must have been a few, at least.

    I find that kind of mind-blowing. I think of things like that. Why, I don’t know.

  32. @Ghost

    The scene you linked to: impressive film-making, and probably very accurate of WWI. The poor devils that had to endure that hell in the real war (not the movie) – it’s enough to make me cry.

    It was filmed in Irvine CA, very close to where I live. In 1957 not many people lived there, It was mostly orange groves.

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