Kirk Douglas Was a Movie Star Ahead of His Time
The film legend, who died at age 103, was a bridge between cinema’s fusty beginnings and its more adventurous future.
“I’ve made a career, in a sense, of playing sons of bitches,” Kirk Douglas , reflecting on a career that encompassed seven decades in Hollywood inhabiting every kind of antihero imaginable. Douglas, who at the age of 103, was remembered in his later years as a grand old man of the movie industry, the father of the celebrated actor Michael Douglas and an occasional at the Academy Awards. But in his prime, Douglas was the rare marquee idol as defined by his onscreen ferocity as by his looks and charm, a star who emerged in the 1950s but could have
