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Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, 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 ...
Writing in The Forward after Kirk Douglas' death in 2020, Henry Sapoznik called The Juggler the "Jewish Kirk Douglas film that everyone seems to have forgotten," and said that it was not only the first film to conflate Holocaust atrocities and the promise of Jewish healing in the newly formed state of Israel, but – thanks to Kramer’s ...
Cast a Giant Shadow is a 1966 American action film [2] based on the life of Colonel Mickey Marcus, and stars Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra and Angie Dickinson. [3] Melville Shavelson adapted, produced and directed. [4]
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) [2] is an American actor and film producer. ... His father was Jewish and was born Issur Danielovitch.
Kirk Douglas ensured his philanthropic legacy continues after his death.
Kirk Douglas, of Belarusian Jewish parents; Jackie Mason, whose parents were Jewish emigrants from Smalyavichy in the Minsk Region; Lisa Kudrow, her ancestors emigrated from Belarus; Scarlett Johansson, actress and singer, maternal Jewish grandparents came from Minsk.
Legendary actor Kirk Douglas died on Wednesday at the age of 103. Following his death, his son, actor Michael Douglas, released a statement detailing some of the things he learned from his late ...
BY BRYNN MANNINO Legendary Hollywood actor, producer and author Kirk Douglas, who turns 98 next week on Dec. 9, is still alive and well, contrary to reports of his death, which began circulating ...