Kirk Douglas - biography

“Actors have a universal language, like athletes and musicians.  They’re good ambassadors for their countries.  They transcend political lines.”

“Here I am, a grown man pretending to shoot it out with Burt Lancaster.  It’s a childish quality.  Something that most of us lose as we grow older.”

“I do not see any solution to film censorship other than its abolition.”

“I guess I was a bad boy...  Yes, yes, I’ve had lots of women in my life.”

“Love has more depth as you get older.”

“I’m a sonuvabitch.  Plain and simple.  Why try to act the nice guy?”

“Virtue is not photogenic and bad guys are more interesting to play.”

“When you become a star, you don’t change - everyone else does.”

“If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.”

“Why can’t a woman be more like a dog, huh?  So sweet, loving, attentive.”

“I try to stay in shape.  There are no roles for fat leading men.”

“If I’d known what a big-shot Michael was going to be, I would’ve been nicer to him as a kid.”

Kirk Douglas has appeared in the following films:
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
I Walk Alone (1948)
The Walls of Jericho (1948)
My Dear Secretary (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Champion (1949)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
Along the Great Divide (1951)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Detective Story (1951)
The Big Trees (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
The Juggler (1953)
Un acte d’amour (1953)
Ulisse (1954)
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
The Racers (1955)
Man Without a Star (1955)
The Indian Fighter (1955)
Lust for Life (1956)
Top Secret Affair (1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Vikings (1958)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
The Devil’s Disciple (1959)
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Town Without Pity (1961)
The Last Sunset (1961)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
The Hook (1963)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
For Love or Money (1963)
Seven Days in May (1964)
In Harm’s Way (1965)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)
The Way West (1967)
The War Wagon (1967)
A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
The Brotherhood (1968)
The Arrangement (1969)
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
To Catch a Spy (1971)
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
A Gunfight (1971)
The Special London Bridge Special (1972)
Un Uomo da rispettare (1972)
Scalawag (1973)
Posse (1975)
Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough (1975)
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
The Fury (1978)
The Villain (1979)
Saturn 3 (1980)
Home Movies (1980)
The Final Countdown (1980)
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Eddie Macon’s Run (1983)
Tough Guys (1986)
Oscar (1991)
Veraz (1991)
Greedy (1994)
Diamonds (1999)
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Illusion (2004)


Kirk Douglas directed the following films:
Scalawag (1973)
Posse (1975)