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KIRK DOUGLAS

ilm legend Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in Amsterdam, N.Y., on Dec. 9, 1916, died on Feb. 5, 2020, at home in Beverly Hills. He was 103. Appearing (1951), (1952), (1955), (1955), (1957, as Doc Holliday), (1959), (1961), (1962), (1967), (1967), (1970), (1971), (1975), (1979), (1982) and (1984). He and his actor/producer son Michael Douglas appeared in only one film together, (2003), which co-stars Kirk’s grandson and ex-wife. Douglas said his favorite was , in which he plays roaming ranch hand Jack Burns, who rejects modern technology and rides off into the mountains with the law in pursuit.

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