Who is Kirk Douglas?

Kirk Douglas was born in Amsterdam, New York, USA, on December 9, 1916. Kirk Douglas started his acting career with a handful of minor roles in various Broadway productions. He joined the US Navy in 1941 during the Second World War and returned to acting in the theater after the end of the war in 1945. In 1946 Hal B. Wallis gave Kirk the lead role in ‘The Strange Love of Martha Ivers’ which brought rave reviews. In 1948 he acted in the low-key drama ‘I Walk Alone’ alongside Burt Lancaster for the first time. He received his first nomination for the Oscar in 1949 for his role in ‘Champion’. He acted in the film ‘Ace in the Hole’ in 1951. The ‘Bad and the Beautiful’ brought him his second Oscar nomination in 1952. Kirk Douglas has received the American ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’ in 1981 and the Jefferson Award in 1983 for his humanitarian activities. He has received the ‘American Cinema Award’ and the ‘German Golden Kamera Award’ in 1987, the ‘National Board of Reviews Career Achievement Award’ in 1989, an honorary ‘Academy Award in 1995, the ‘Recipient of the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 1999 and the ‘UCLA medal of Honor’ in 2002.

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