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8 unusual facts about Kirk Douglas


Asterix and Obelix All at Sea

The album was dedicated to Uderzo's grandchild, as well as American actor Kirk Douglas.

Fort-la-Latte

Various films have been shot at this site, including The Vikings (1958) by Richard Fleischer with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis.

George Henry Strohsahl, Jr.

He portrayed the USS Nimitz's Air Boss, a position he actually held, in the 1980 film The Final Countdown starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen.

Gregor Dorfmeister

The second is best known in the United States, where it was made into the movie Town Without Pity, with Kirk Douglas and a featured song of the same name as the movie.

M. H. Douglas

The Directors of the movie gave him the screen name 'Douglas', were the name was inspired by the American Superstar of that era Kirk Douglas.

Nicholas Bayard Dill

Diana Dill, moved to the USA, becoming an actress, and was married to actor Kirk Douglas, with whom she had two sons, Michael Douglas and Joel Douglas.

Nobuhiko Obayashi

In the 1970s he began a series of Japanese ads featuring well-known American stars such as Kirk Douglas and Charles Bronson.

Reub Long

During these productions, Reub got to know a number of well-known actors including Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges, Ward Bond, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, and Susan Hayward.


Arlene Golonka

Despite that setback, she continued working in other plays such as Take Me Along with Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon and Robert Morse (448 performances from late 1959 to late 1960), Neil Simon's first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn, which ran 677 performances from February 1961 until October 1962, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring Kirk Douglas, from November 1963 until January 1964.

Chasen's

Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Richard Nixon, James Stewart, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Kirk Douglas and Ronald Reagan were still regulars, along with newer celebrities such as John Travolta, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Mel Gibson.

Don Iwerks

In 1954, Iwerks got a camera technician position for the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, starring Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre.

Evelyn Keyes

Among the many Hollywood affairs she recounted in "Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister" were those with producer Michael Todd (who left Evelyn for Elizabeth Taylor), Glenn Ford, Sterling Hayden, Dick Powell, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Kirk Douglas.

Follyfoot

But what really characterised the series was its rotation of directors, many of whom have since become revered figures in the UK film industry, including Stephen Frears, Michael Apted and even Jack Cardiff who took time out from working overseas with Kirk Douglas to direct two episodes of the series.

Gene LeBell

Other awardees have been James Cagney, Kirk Douglas, Karl Malden, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, and Sylvester Stallone (movie stars that also did boxing and wrestling).

Gerovital

During Gerovital's "jet-set" heyday, Gerovital treatments were reportedly administered to John F. Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas and Salvador Dalí.

Jack Cardiff

As well as many interviews with Cardiff himself, it included tributes from Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Kathleen Byron, Kim Hunter, Moira Shearer, John Mills, Lauren Bacall, Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas.

John Mariano

He got his start in films playing a prissy bank teller in Tough Guys with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

Karin Hardt

After the war was followed by only a few more film appearances such as the Queen in Sleeping Beauty fairytale Genschows Fritz (1955), in addition to Horst Buchholz in A Streetcar Named Love (1957) and alongside Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961).

My Dear Secretary

My Dear Secretary is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Charles Martin, starring Laraine Day and Kirk Douglas.

Peter Douglas

Peter Vincent Douglas (born November 23, 1955) is an American television and film producer, a son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife, German American producer Anne Buydens.


see also

Jeff Kanew

He also directed Douglas in 1983's Eddie Macon's Run, Troop Beverly Hills starring Shelley Long, V.I. Warshawski starring Kathleen Turner, Natural Enemies starring Hal Holbrook and Louise Fletcher, Babij Jar a holocaust drama, National Lampoon's Adam and Eve, several TV episodes, and the stage and video versions of the Kirk Douglas one man show "Before I Forget".

Out of the Past

Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds (1984) with Rachel Ward in the Greer role, Jeff Bridges filling in for Mitchum, and James Woods as a variation of Kirk Douglas' villain, with Jane Greer as the mother of her original character in Out of the Past and Richard Widmark in a supporting role.