¡Happy 100th Birthday Kirk Douglas! Remembering his Life and Career

2. Born Issur Danielovitch to Russian Jewish immigrants on 9 December 1916 in New York, he got the
acting bug after appearing in school plays at St Lawrence University. He won a scholarship to the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where he met Betty Joan Perske – later known
as Lauren Bacall.
He enlisted in the US Navy in 1941, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged
the country into World War Two. He married Bacall's friend Diana Dill on 2 November 1943, and
they had two sons – Michael in 1944 and Joel in 1947 – before divorcing in 1951. Bacall helped him
get his first film role, opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946). He
soon became a Hollywood star, playing rough and rugged heroes in films such as The Big Trees and
Champion (which gave him his first Oscar nomination).

3. College graduation photo of Kirk
Douglas in the 1939 St Lawrence
University Gridiron yearbookSt
Lawrence University Gridiron
yearbook

4. Kirk Douglas with Barbara
Stanwyck in the 1946 film The
Strange Love of Martha
IversParamount Pictures

5. 1952: A promotional photo for The
Big Trees, a film about a Quaker
colony trying to save giant sequoias
from a timber baronWarner Bros

6. September 1953: Kirk Douglas
and the Indian actress Mehtab
stroll on the Lido beach during
the Venice Film FestivalAFP

7. A shot of Kirk Douglas from the
1950sHulton Archive/Getty Images

8. 1952: Kirk Douglas
with Lana Turner in
The Bad and the
Beautiful, directed by
Vincente
MinnelliMetro-
Goldwyn-Mayer

9. 14 August 1955: Marlene
Dietrich, Kirk Douglas and
Gina Lollobrigida rehearse for
a charity concert in
ParisKeystone/Getty Images

10. Mid-50s: Kirk Douglas looks at a
globe with two of his sons, Joel
and Michael Douglas (who was
born in September 1944)Arnold
M. Johnson/Hulton Archive/Getty
Images

11. circa 1955: Kirk Douglas and his wife
Anne show off their newborn son
PeterKeystone/Getty Images

12. 1956: Kirk Douglas plays
Vincent van Gogh in the film
Lust for Life

13. Kirk Douglas plays
Colonel Dax in the
1957 film Paths of
Glory, directed by
Stanley KubrickUnited
Artists

14. 1958: Janette Scott, Kirk
Douglas, Burt Lancaster and
Laurence Olivier pose on the
film set of The Devil's Disciple at
Tring Park in
HertfordshireMichael
Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton
Archive/Getty Images

15. 1 September 1958: Kirk
Douglas and his wife Anne
attend the first night of
Auntie Mame in London with
Burt LancasterEvening
Standard/Getty Images

16. Espartaco

17. Kirk Douglas plays the title role in the
1960 film Spartacus, also directed by
Stanley KubrickUniversal Studios

18. Espartaco

19. 5 December 1960: Kirk Douglas and his
wife Anne arrive in London for the
premiere of SpartacusDennis
Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images

20. Chuck Tatum ('El gran carnaval')

21. 7 December 1960: I'm Spartacus!
Kirk Douglas plays with a lion cub
called Spartacus which was
presented to him by the director
of Southport zooLee/Central
Press/Getty Images

22. Ned Land ('20.000 leguas de viaje submarino')

24. 16 October 1961: Elizabeth Taylor dances
with Kirk Douglas at a party in Rome for the
film SpartacusKeystone/Getty Images

25. Douglas has appeared in 91 films and TV productions, including 20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea, Heroes of Telemark and seven with his regular screen partner Burt Lancaster. From
the 1970s onwards, Kirk and Anne Douglas became known for philanthropic works, travelling
the world as goodwill ambassadors, flying to Cairo to speak with Egyptian president Anwar
Sadat in 1980, rebuilding more than 400 school playgrounds and establishing a centre for
homeless women in Los Angeles.

26. 1965: Kirk Douglas talks to
his son Michael on the set
of Cast a Giant Shadow.
Michael had a bit part in the
filmKeystone/Getty Images

27. Einar ('Los vikingos')

29. 26 March 1965: Kirk
Douglas and
Richard Harris chat
during the making
of Heroes of
Telemark, a film
about the
Norwegian
resistance trying to
stop German
efforts to produce
an atomic bomb
component during
World War IILarry
Ellis/Express/Getty
Images

30. Doc Holliday ('Duelo de titanes')

31. 16 March 1978: US
President Jimmy
Carter greets Kirk and
Anne Douglas at the
White HouseNational
Archives

32. 25 March 1985: Kirk Douglas
and Burt Lancaster address the
audience at the 57th Annual
Academy Awards in
HollywoodRob Boren/AFP

33. 4 December 1994: Kirk
Douglas applauds fellow
honoree Aretha Franklin
at a reception for the
Kennedy Centre Honours
in the East Room of the
White HouseJoshua
Roberts/AFP

34. 12 December 1995: Frank
Sinatra celebrates his 80th
birthday at an intimate
dinner party at the Beverly
Hills home of television
producer George Schlatter.
Guests at the party
included (L-R) Gregory
Peck, Veronique Peck,
Jolene Schlatter, Barbara
and Frank Sinatra, Anne
Douglas, George Schlatter
and Kirk DouglasReuters

35. 25 March 1996: Kirk Douglas salutes
the crowd at the 68th Annual Academy
Awards after he received an Oscar for
lifetime achievementTimothy A
Clary/AFP

36. 20 May 1998: Kirk Douglas and Tony
Curtis embrace following the funeral
of Frank Sinatra at the Good
Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly
Hills. Sinatra died of a heart attack at
the age of 82Nick Ut/AFP

37. 7 March 1999: Kirk Douglas strikes a
boxing pose with actress Janet Leigh as
they pose for photographers after Douglas
was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Life
Achievement AwardReuters

38. 17 July 2000: Kirk Douglas
prays at the Western Wall
during a visit to Israel for the
XVII Jerusalem Film Festival
where he was honoured with
a lifetime achievement
awardMenahem Kahana/AFP

39. 3 March 2001:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
kisses her father-in-law
Kirk Douglas, after she
presented him with
the Milestone Award
at The Producers Guild
of America's 12th
Annual Golden Laurel
AwardsReuters

40. 25 June 2001: Kirk
Douglas kisses his
son Michael as
they arrive at the
Simon Wiesenthal
Centre Museum
of Tolerance
National Tribute
Dinner in Beverly
Hills, where
Michael received
the Humanitarian
AwardLucy
Nicholson/AFP

41. 19 January 2002: Kirk
Douglas acknowledges
cheering fans during an
appearance at a
Toronto bookstore to
promote his
autobiography, My
Stroke of LuckAndrew
Wallace/Reuters

42. 13 April 2003: Kirk
Douglas, his first
wife Diana, their
son Michael and
Michael's son
Cameron arrive at
the New York
premiere of It Runs
In The Family,
which starred all
fourScott
Gries/Getty Images

43. September 2007: Alec
Baldwin kisses the hand of
Kirk Douglas as Catherine
Zeta-Jones and her husband
Michael Douglas look on
during the match between
Novak Djokovic of Serbia
and David Ferrer of Spain
during the 2007 US Open in
New YorkAl Bello/Getty
Images

44. 28 May 2008: Kirk Douglas goes down a slide
during the dedication of the 400th Anne and Kirk
Douglas Playground, at Lillian Street Elementary
School in Los AngelesValerie Macon/AFP

45. 25 November 2009: Kirk
Douglas and his wife Anne
prepare to assist serving
an early Thanksgiving
meal to the homeless and
others at the Los Angeles
MissionFred
Prouser/Reuters

46. 27 February 2011: Melissa Leo
curtsies to Kirk Douglas after she
won the Actress in a Supporting Role
award for The Fighter during the
83rd Annual Academy AwardsKevin
Winter/Getty Images

47. 13 October 2011: Kirk and
Michael Douglas attend
the 2011 Kirk Douglas
Award for Excellence In
Film, honouring Michael
Douglas, at the Biltmore
Four Seasons in Santa
Barbara,
CaliforniaMichael
Buckner/Getty Images

48. 26 February 2012: Kirk and Michael Douglas
pose at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by
Graydon Carter in West HollywoodAlberto E.
Rodriguez/Getty Images

49. 13 August 2012: Kirk Douglas attends a 70mm
film screening of his film Spartacus at the
Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly
HillsAlberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

50. October 2016: Anne and Kirk
Douglas attend Hollywood's Night
Under The Stars at MPTF
Wasserman Campus in Los
AngelesAlberto E. Rodriguez/Getty
Images for MPTF

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