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Kirk Douglas

1916–2020 · American actor

Kirk Douglas was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films and was known for his explosive acting style. He was named by the American Film Institute the 17th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema.

Kirk Douglas, in order

  1. 1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: acted · directed by Lewis Milestone · critics 100%, audiences 75% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
  2. 1947 Mourning Becomes Electra: acted · directed by Dudley Nichols
  3. 1947 Out of the Past: acted · directed by Jacques Tourneur
  4. 1948 I Walk Alone: acted · directed by Byron Haskin
  5. 1948 My Dear Secretary: acted · directed by Charles Martin
  6. 1948 The Walls of Jericho: acted · directed by John M. Stahl
  7. 1949 A Letter to Three Wives: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  8. 1949 Champion: acted · directed by Mark Robson
  9. 1950 The Glass Menagerie: acted · directed by Irving Rapper
  10. 1950 Young Man with a Horn: acted · directed by Michael Curtiz
  11. 1951 Ace in the Hole: acted · directed by Billy Wilder · critics 88%, audiences 92% · streaming on YouTube (free), Plex, Fawesome
  12. 1951 Along the Great Divide: acted · directed by Raoul Walsh
  13. 1951 Detective Story: acted · directed by William Wyler
  14. 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful: acted · directed by Vincente Minnelli
  15. 1952 The Big Sky: acted · directed by Howard Hawks · critics 89%, audiences 66%
  16. 1952 The Big Trees: acted · directed by Felix E. Feist
  17. 1953 Act of Love: acted · directed by Anatole Litvak
  18. 1953 The Juggler: acted · directed by Edward Dmytryk · streaming on Tubi
  19. 1953 The Story of Three Loves: acted · directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and Vincente Minnelli
  20. 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer
  21. 1954 Ulysses: acted · directed by Mario Bava and Mario Camerini
  22. 1955 Man Without a Star: acted · directed by King Vidor
  23. 1955 The Indian Fighter: acted · directed by André de Toth
  24. 1955 The Racers: acted · directed by Henry Hathaway
  25. 1956 Lust for Life: acted · directed by George Cukor and Vincente Minnelli
  26. 1956 Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light: acted
  27. 1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: acted · directed by John Sturges
  28. 1957 Paths of Glory: acted · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 96%, audiences 95% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fandango at Home (free)
  29. 1957 Top Secret Affair: acted · directed by H. C. Potter
  30. 1958 The Vikings: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer · critics 77%, audiences 72% · streaming on Prime Video, YouTube (free), Tubi
  31. 1959 Last Train from Gun Hill: acted · directed by John Sturges
  32. 1959 The Devil's Disciple: acted · directed by Guy Hamilton
  33. 1960 Spartacus: acted · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 89%, audiences 87% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  34. 1960 Strangers When We Meet: acted · directed by Richard Quine
  35. 1961 The Last Sunset: acted · directed by Robert Aldrich
  36. 1961 Town Without Pity: acted · directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
  37. 1962 Lonely Are the Brave: directed, acted
  38. 1962 Two Weeks in Another Town: acted · directed by Vincente Minnelli
  39. 1963 For Love or Money: acted · directed by Michael Gordon
  40. 1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up: acted · directed by Ken Murray and Rudy Behlmer · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  41. 1963 The Hook: acted · directed by George Seaton
  42. 1963 The List of Adrian Messenger: acted · directed by John Huston
  43. 1964 Seven Days in May: acted · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 92%, audiences 89%
  44. 1965 In Harm's Way: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
  45. 1965 The Heroes of Telemark: acted · directed by Anthony Mann
  46. 1966 Cast a Giant Shadow: acted · directed by Melville Shavelson · audiences 52% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  47. 1966 Is Paris Burning?: acted · directed by René Clément · critics 75%, audiences 72%
  48. 1967 The War Wagon: acted · directed by Burt Kennedy
  49. 1967 The Way West: acted · directed by Andrew V. McLaglen · critics 29%, audiences 39% · streaming on YouTube (free), Tubi
  50. 1968 A Lovely Way to Die: acted · directed by David Lowell Rich
  51. 1968 The Brotherhood: produced, acted · directed by Martin Ritt · critics 63%, audiences 22% · streaming on Hoopla
  52. 1969 The Arrangement: acted · directed by Elia Kazan
  53. 1970 There Was a Crooked Man...: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  54. 1971 A Gunfight: acted · directed by Lamont Johnson
  55. 1971 Summertree: produced · directed by Anthony Newley · streaming on Roku Channel, Tubi
  56. 1971 The Light at the Edge of the World: acted · directed by Kevin Billington
  57. 1971 To Catch a Spy: acted · directed by Dick Clement
  58. 1972 The Master Touch: acted · directed by Michele Lupo
  59. 1973 Scalawag: directed, acted
  60. 1975 Once Is Not Enough: acted · directed by Guy Green
  61. 1975 Posse: directed, produced, acted
  62. 1976 Victory at Entebbe (TV movie): acted · directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
  63. 1977 Holocaust 2000: acted · directed by Alberto De Martino
  64. 1978 The Fury: acted · directed by Brian De Palma · critics 79%, audiences 50% · streaming on fuboTV
  65. 1979 The Villain: acted · directed by Hal Needham · critics 0%, audiences 39%
  66. 1980 Home Movies: acted · directed by Brian De Palma · audiences 39%
  67. 1980 Saturn 3: acted · directed by Stanley Donen
  68. 1980 The Final Countdown: acted · directed by Don Taylor
  69. 1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: acted · directed by Carl Reiner · critics 70%, audiences 72%
  70. 1982 Let Poland Be Poland: acted
  71. 1982 Remembrance of Love: acted · directed by Jack Smight
  72. 1982 The Man from Snowy River: acted · directed by George T. Miller
  73. 1983 Eddie Macon's Run: acted · directed by Jeff Kanew
  74. 1984 Draw! (TV movie): acted · directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
  75. 1985 Amos (TV movie): acted · directed by Michael Tuchner
  76. 1986 Tough Guys: acted · directed by Jeff Kanew
  77. 1988 Inherit the Wind: acted · directed by David Greene
  78. 1991 Oscar: acted · directed by John Landis
  79. 1991 Two-Fisted Tales (TV movie): acted · directed by Richard Donner and Robert Zemeckis
  80. 1992 The Secret (TV movie): acted · directed by Karen Arthur
  81. 1994 A Century of Cinema: acted · directed by Caroline Thomas
  82. 1994 Greedy: acted · directed by Jonathan Lynn
  83. 1994 Take Me Home Again (TV movie): acted · directed by Tom McLoughlin
  84. 1999 Diamonds: acted · directed by John Asher
  85. 2003 It Runs in the Family: acted · directed by Fred Schepisi · critics 31%, audiences 28% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  86. 2004 Illusion: acted · directed by Michael A. Goorjian
  87. 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen: acted · directed by György Pálfi