So you knew he was going to be a star.”ĭouglas, she said, “embodied the antihero in movies” in films such as “Champion” and “Ace in the Hole,” in which he played an unscrupulous newspaper reporter who cynically exploits a tragedy to boost his career.
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“He wasn’t a traditional leading man, really, in looks, and yet he had an unmistakable charisma and power on screen - not just the glamour of the movie star, though he did have that, but real acting chops. “I immediately focused on him because he was different,” Basinger told The Times.
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“He’s one of the legendary figures of his era,” said film historian Jeanine Basinger, chair of the film studies department at Wesleyan University, who first saw Douglas on screen as a young moviegoer in the late 1940s. My love goes out to my friend Michael and the whole family.- Rob Reiner February 5, 2020 He put himself on the line to break the blacklist. KIrk Douglas will always be an icon in the pantheon of Hollywood. In acknowledgment of a career that spanned more than 60 years and more than 80 films, Douglas was honored late in life with numerous major awards: The American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award and an honorary Oscar for his “50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community.”
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produced a number of films in which Douglas starred, including director Stanley Kubrick’s landmark anti-war film, “Paths of Glory,” “The Vikings” and “Spartacus.” Douglas’ Joel Productions, named after one of his sons, also produced “Seven Days in May” and “Lonely Are the Brave.”Īs executive producer of “Spartacus,” Douglas helped end the Hollywood blacklist by giving blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo screen credit under his own name for his work on the 1960 Roman-Empire epic that starred Douglas as the gladiator-trained slave revolt leader. Named after Douglas’ immigrant mother, the Bryna Co. Never a fan of the Hollywood studio system - he likened the standard seven-year studio contract to slavery - Douglas launched his own independent production company in 1955.