Actor Kirk Douglas Dead At 103
Feb 7, 2020 10:14:44 #
Burtzy wrote:
I had the pleasure of working with Kirk Douglas as... (show quote)
“Seven Days in May” was a great flick.
Feb 7, 2020 10:34:01 #
mas24 wrote:
Actor Kirk Douglas passed away at age 103. I was surprised he lived so long, after suffering a major Stroke many years ago. I remember seeing some of his movies when I was a kid. Three were Ulysses, Spartacus, and the Vikings. He played Artist Van Gogh, and countless other great movies, many in B&W after WW2. RIP Kirk.
Feb 7, 2020 11:01:25 #
Anhanga Brasil
Loc: Cabo Frio - Brazil
FiddleMaker wrote:
I recall him in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This was back in the early 1950s. Yes, to live to be 103 when considering that smoking was very much in and popular back in the 1930s and 40s. Not sure if Kirk was a smoker but the odds are he was. Nearly everyone in Hollywood was.
I do not think so. IIRC, he started as a circus performer and
did not drink or smoke. He was depicted on "Trumbo" (great movie)
by an actor who really impersonates him. It is worth watching.
Feb 7, 2020 11:01:36 #
The American Success Story.
Kirk and family came from Russia. Jews probably getting away from Anti-Semitism. Worked his way to success!!
Bravo!!
Mazultov!!
Len
Kirk and family came from Russia. Jews probably getting away from Anti-Semitism. Worked his way to success!!
Bravo!!
Mazultov!!
Len
Feb 7, 2020 11:01:51 #
The American Success Story.
Kirk and family came from Russia. Jews probably getting away from Anti-Semitism. Worked his way to success!!
Bravo!!
Mazultov!!
Len
Kirk and family came from Russia. Jews probably getting away from Anti-Semitism. Worked his way to success!!
Bravo!!
Mazultov!!
Len
Feb 7, 2020 11:06:37 #
In addition to all of his great work, I appreciate most his desire to free those who were blacklisted from the shackles of a demented, fearmongering Congressman and his cronies.
Feb 7, 2020 11:18:33 #
foathog wrote:
His favorite movie that he did was "Lonely are the Brave". It is very good.
that was a good one, sad ending
Feb 7, 2020 11:31:06 #
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Peter
1977 The Chosen
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Alex Vandervoort
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Hershel Vilnofsky
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Mike Wayne
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Howard Nightingale
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George Anderson
1973 Scalawag
Peg
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Steve Wallace
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1971 Catch Me a Spy
Andrej
1971 A Gunfight
Will Tenneray
1971 The Light at the Edge of the World
Denton
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Paris Pitman, Jr.
1969 The Arrangement
Eddie Anderson
1968 The Brotherhood
Frank Ginetta
1968 The Legend of Silent Night (TV Movie)
Narrator
1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series)
Guest Performer
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1967 The Way West
Senator William J. Tadlock
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Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus
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Deke Gentry
1963 The List of Adrian Messenger
George Brougham / Vicar Atlee / Mr. Pythian / ...
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Sgt. P.J. Briscoe
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Jack Andrus
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John W. "Jack" Burns
1961 The Last Sunset
Brendan 'Bren' O'Malley
1961 Town Without Pity
Maj. Steve Garrett
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Larry Coe
1959 Operation Petticoat
Welding Seaman (uncredited)
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Richard Dudgeon
1959 Last Train from Gun Hill
Marshal Matt Morgan
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Einar
1957 Paths of Glory
Col. Dax
1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Doc Holliday
1957 Top Secret Affair
Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin
1956 Lust for Life
Vincent Van Gogh
1955 The Indian Fighter
Johnny Hawks
1955 Man Without a Star
Dempsey Rae
1955 The Racers
Gino Borgesa
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Ned Land
1954 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series)
Kirk
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1953 Act of Love
Robert Teller
1953 The Juggler
Hans Muller
1953 The Story of Three Loves
Pierre Narval (segment "Equilibrium")
1952 The Bad and the Beautiful
Jonathan
1952 The Big Sky
Jim Deakins
1952 The Big Trees
Jim Fallon
1951 Detective Story
Det. James McLeod
1951 Ace in the Hole
Chuck Tatum
1951 Along the Great Divide
Marshal Len Merrick
1950 The Glass Menagerie
Jim O'Connor
1950 Young Man with a Horn
Rick Martin
1949 Champion
Midge
1949 A Letter to Three Wives
George Phipps
1948 My Dear Secretary
Owen Waterbury
1948 The Walls of Jericho
Tucker Wedge
1947 I Walk Alone
Noll 'Dink' Turner
1947 Out of the Past
Whit
1947 Mourning Becomes Electra
Peter Niles
1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
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Feb 7, 2020 11:31:26 #
Feb 7, 2020 13:18:19 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
In the movie, Ulysses, the giant one eyed Cyclop wanted more wine. Kirk Douglas (Ulysses) and his men, stomped on grapes to make more wine. The Cyclop got drunk. Only to awaken and lose his only eye. Then, Ulysses had to reclaim his wife and title, from Suitors. The fighting in the end was classic. Anthony Quinn was one of the Suitors, who wanted to claim Ulysses's wife. I was a kid, when I saw that movie in a neighborhood theater. Where you could see two movies, and a cartoon, for 35 cents.
Feb 7, 2020 13:21:07 #
Mas24, you paid too much .My neighborhood theatre was 15c. Mom always gave me 25c. Enough for candy
Len
Len
Feb 7, 2020 13:54:12 #
His family may have come from Russia, but Kirk was born upstate NY in Amsterdam.
ltatko wrote:
The American Success Story.
Kirk and family came from Russia. Jews probably getting away from Anti-Semitism. Worked his way to success!!
Bravo!!
Mazultov!!
Len
Kirk and family came from Russia. Jews probably getting away from Anti-Semitism. Worked his way to success!!
Bravo!!
Mazultov!!
Len
Feb 7, 2020 14:08:57 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
ltatko wrote:
Mas24, you paid too much .My neighborhood theatre was 15c. Mom always gave me 25c. Enough for candy
Len
Len
My late mom, said she paid 5 cents, in the late 1930s to see movies at her neighborhood theater. You got a bargain at 15 cents, some 20 years later.
Feb 7, 2020 14:24:29 #
mas24 wrote:
Actor Kirk Douglas passed away at age 103. I was surprised he lived so long, after suffering a major Stroke many years ago. I remember seeing some of his movies when I was a kid. Three were Ulysses, Spartacus, and the Vikings. He played Artist Van Gogh, and countless other great movies, many in B&W after WW2. RIP Kirk.
At 76, I have admired him for many years. He was one of the best actors.
Feb 7, 2020 15:49:16 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
An actress from the Golden Era Of Hollywood, is Olivia Dehaviland, of Gone With The Wind, 1939. She is 103, and has lived in Paris, France, since the 1950s. She was dating Howard Hughes in 1938.
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