The following is the filmography of American actor Kirk Douglas (1916–2020). 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 No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends in American film history. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community".
Filmography
editAs actor
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Walter O'Neil | |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Peter Niles | |
| Out of the Past | Whit Sterling | ||
| 1948 | I Walk Alone | Noll "Dink" Turner | |
| The Walls of Jericho[1] | Tucker Wedge | ||
| My Dear Secretary | Owen Waterbury | ||
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives | George Phipps | |
| Champion | Michael "Midge" Kelly | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor[2] | |
| 1950 | Young Man with a Horn | Rick Martin | |
| The Glass Menagerie | Jim O'Connor | ||
| 1951 | Along the Great Divide | Marshal Len Merrick | |
| Ace in the Hole | Chuck Tatum | ||
| Detective Story | Detective Jim McLeod | ||
| 1952 | The Big Trees | Jim Fallon | |
| The Big Sky | Jim Deakins | ||
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Jonathan Shields | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor | |
| 1953 | The Story of Three Loves | Pierre Narval (segment "Equilibrium") | |
| The Juggler | Hans Muller | ||
| Act of Love | Robert Teller | ||
| 1954 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Ned Land | |
| 1955 | The Racers | Gino Borgesa | |
| Ulysses | Odysseus | ||
| Man Without a Star | Dempsey Rae | ||
| The Indian Fighter | Johnny Hawks | ||
| 1956 | Lust for Life | Vincent van Gogh | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor |
| 1957 | Top Secret Affair | Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin | |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Doc Holliday | ||
| Paths of Glory | Colonel Dax | ||
| 1958 | The Vikings | Einar | |
| 1959 | Last Train from Gun Hill | Matt Morgan | |
| The Devil's Disciple | Richard "Dick" Dudgeon | ||
| Operation Petticoat | Welding Seaman | uncredited | |
| 1960 | Strangers When We Meet | Larry Coe | |
| Spartacus | Spartacus | ||
| 1961 | Town Without Pity | Major Garrett | |
| The Last Sunset | Brendan "Bren" O'Malley | ||
| 1962 | Lonely Are the Brave | John W. "Jack" Burns | |
| Two Weeks in Another Town | Jack Andrus | ||
| 1963 | The Hook | Sgt. P.J. Briscoe | |
| The List of Adrian Messenger | George Brougham, Vicar Atlee, Mr. Pythian, Arthur Henderson | ||
| For Love or Money | Donald Kenneth "Deke" Gentry | ||
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | Colonel Jiggs Casey | |
| 1965 | In Harm's Way | Commander Paul Eddington | |
| The Heroes of Telemark | Dr Rolf Pedersen | ||
| 1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow | Col. Mickey Marcus | |
| Is Paris Burning? | Gen. George Patton | ||
| 1967 | The Way West | Sen. William J. Tadlock | |
| The War Wagon | Lomax | ||
| 1968 | A Lovely Way to Die | Jim Schuyler | |
| The Brotherhood | Frank Ginetta | ||
| The Legend of Silent Night | Voice, Narrator | Television film | |
| 1969 | The Arrangement | Eddie Anderson | |
| 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... | Paris Pitman Jr. | |
| 1971 | To Catch a Spy | Andrej | |
| The Light at the Edge of the World | Will Denton | ||
| A Gunfight | Will Tenneray | ||
| 1972 | The Master Touch | Steve Wallace | |
| The Special London Bridge Special | The Indian Fighter | Television film | |
| 1973 | Scalawag | Peg | Also director |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Television film | |
| 1974 | Mousey | George Anderson | Television film |
| 1975 | Posse | Marshal Howard Nightingale | Also director/producer/co-writer |
| Once Is Not Enough | Mike Wayne | ||
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Hershel Vilnofsky | Television film |
| Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers | Alex Vandervoort | Mini-series (4 episodes) | |
| 1977 | Holocaust 2000 | Robert Caine | a.k.a. Rain of Fire and The Chosen |
| 1978 | The Fury | Peter Sandza | |
| 1979 | The Villain | Cactus Jack | |
| 1980 | Saturn 3 | Adam | |
| Home Movies | Dr. Tuttle "The Maestro" | ||
| The Final Countdown | Capt. Matthew Yelland | ||
| 1982 | The Man from Snowy River | Harrison/Spur | |
| Remembrance of Love[3] | Joe Rabin | Television film | |
| 1983 | Eddie Macon's Run | Marzack | |
| 1984 | Draw! | Harry H. Holland | Television film |
| 1985 | Amos[4] | Amos Lasher | Television film |
| 1986 | Tough Guys | Archie Long | |
| 1987 | Queenie | David Konig | Television film |
| 1988 | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | Television film |
| 1991 | Oscar | Eduardo Provolone | |
| Veraz/Welcome to Veraz[5] | Quentin | ||
| Tales from the Crypt | General Kalthrob | TV series (1 episode: "Yellow") | |
| 1992 | The Secret | Grandpa Mike Dunmore | Television film |
| 1994 | Greedy | Uncle Joe McTeague | |
| Take Me Home Again | Ed Reece | Television film | |
| 1996 | The Simpsons | Chester J. Lampwick | Voice, TV series (1 episode: "The Day the Violence Died") |
| 1999 | Diamonds | Harry Agensky | |
| 2000 | Touched by an Angel | Ross Burger | TV series (1 episode: "Bar Mitzvah") |
| 2003 | It Runs in the Family | Mitchell Gromberg | His son Michael Douglas and grandson Cameron Douglas also appeared in the film |
| 2004 | Illusion | Donald Baines | |
| 2008 | Empire State Building Murders[6] | Jim Kovalski | Television film; a.k.a. Meurtres à L'Empire State Building; final role |
As producer
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Walls of Jericho (1948)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- ^ Laws, Zach; Beachum, Chris (December 9, 2018). "Kirk Douglas movies: 15 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include 'Lust for Life,' 'Spartacus,' 'Paths of Glory'". Gold Derby. Penske Business Media, LLC. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Picks and Pans Review: Remembrance of Love". People. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- ^ ""Amos," with Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Montgomery". Los Angeles Times. August 3, 1986. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- ^ "Veraz (1990)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- ^ "MEURTRES À L'EMPIRE STATE BUILDING". BFI. Archived from the original on August 4, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
External links
edit- Kirk Douglas at IMDb