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

[BleedGopher]

per The 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 in Los Angeles. 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.”

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

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.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Go Gophers!!

 

[GoodasGold]

Was he in silent pictures?

 

[Cruze]

For those youngsters who don't know who Kirk Douglas was the following article will help to enlighten you. Kirk had the courage of his convictions. You can't say that about many politicians these days. One that does come to mind is Mitt Romney.


Kirk Douglas' stunning political courage

He never got an Oscar. But that is no matter -- he was bigger than any gold statuette. Kirk Douglas, who died Wednesday at 103, was an American of great courage and decency, which he showed at a time in our history when those virtues were sorely tested.

It was Douglas who pushed for screenwriter credit for Dalton Trumbo on the hugely successful 1960 gladiator epic "Spartacus." Trumbo was one of several Hollywood writers who had more than a decade before been indicted for contempt of Congress for refusing to implicate fellow writers before the House Un-American Activities Committee for affiliations with the Communist Party.

Trumbo not only went to prison for his stance, but was unable to secure writing jobs in movies and television for most of the 1950s because he and others regarded as "subversive" by Hollywood studios were prohibited from doing so because of the blacklist.

Though Trumbo and others were able to get their scripts produced by using pseudonyms or "fronts" (non-blacklisted writers who provided their own names as aliases), they couldn't receive proper credit for their work.

Oscars don't necessarily make one immortal. Or heroic. And Kirk Douglas, in the end, didn't need an Academy Award to certify his importance to something far greater than entertainment -- even if he gave as much sustained pleasure and reward as any performer in screen history.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/opinions/kirk-douglas-profile-in-courage-seymour/index.html

 

[KGF]

Great actor. Great movies. The last of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

RIP Kirk Douglas.

 

[tikited]

Hell of a run. RIP.