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[[File:Studio publicity Kirk Douglas.jpg|thumb|Kirk Douglas]]
'''Kirk Douglas''' (born '''Issur Danielovitch''', December 9, 1916 - February 5, 2020) iswas an American film and stage actor, film producer and author. His popular films include ''[[Out of the Past]]'' (1947), ''[[Champion]]'' (1949), ''[[Ace in the Hole]]'' (1951), ''[[The Bad and the Beautiful]]'' (1952), ''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'' (1954), ''[[Lust for Life]]'' (1956), ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' (1957), ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (1957), ''[[The Vikings]]'' (1958), ''[[Spartacus]]'' (1960), ''[[Lonely Are the Brave]]'' (1962), ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' (1964), ''[[The Heroes of Telemark]]'' (1965), ''[[Saturn 3]]'' (1980) and ''[[Tough Guys]]'' (1986). He is one of the last remaining stars of the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]].
He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends in American film history, making him the highest-ranked living person on the list. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community". A social activist, Douglas played an instrumental role in ending the Hollywood blacklist in 1960 by openly crediting [[Dalton Trumbo]] as the writer of ''Spartacus''' screenplay.
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