Kirk Douglas filmography
The following is the filmography of American film and stage actor, film producer and author 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
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Walter O'Neil | |
| 1947 | Out of the Past | Whit Sterling | |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Peter Niles | ||
| 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 | a.k.a. Ulysses | |
| 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 | Tales of the Vikings | TV series (39 episodes), producer only | |
| Last Train from Gun Hill | Matt Morgan | ||
| The Devil's Disciple | Richard "Dick" Dudgeon | ||
| 1960 | Strangers When We Meet | Larry Coe | |
| Spartacus | Spartacus | Also co-executive producer | |
| 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 | Also producer | |
| The Legend of Silent Night | Voice, Narrator | TV movie | |
| 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 | Also producer | |
| A Gunfight | Will Tenneray | ||
| Summertree | Producer only | ||
| 1972 | The Master Touch | Steve Wallace | |
| The Special London Bridge Special | The Indian Fighter | TV movie | |
| 1973 | Scalawag | Peg | Also director |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Musical TV movie | |
| 1974 | Mousey | George Anderson | TV movie |
| 1975 | Posse | Marshal Howard Nightingale | Also director/producer/co-writer |
| Once Is Not Enough | Mike Wayne | ||
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Hershel Vilnofsky | TV movie |
| Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers | Alex Vandervoort | TV 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 | TV movie | |
| 1983 | Eddie Macon's Run | Marzack | |
| 1984 | Draw! | Harry H. Holland | TV movie |
| 1985 | Amos[4] | Amos Lasher | TV movie |
| 1986 | Tough Guys | Archie Long | Also production consultant |
| 1987 | Queenie | David Konig | TV movie |
| 1988 | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | TV movie |
| 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 | TV movie |
| 1994 | Greedy | Uncle Joe McTeague | |
| Take Me Home Again | Ed Reece | TV movie | |
| 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 | TV movie; a.k.a. Meurtres à L'Empire State Building; final role |
References
- ^ "The Walls of Jericho (1948)". New York Times. 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. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- ^ "Veraz (1990)". New York Times. 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
- Kirk Douglas at IMDb