Feb 06, 2020

Kirk Douglas, longtime influential movie star, dies at 103

Posted Feb 06, 2020 11:30 AM
Kirk Douglas (Photo: Angela George wikimedia creative commons)
Kirk Douglas (Photo: Angela George wikimedia creative commons)

By HILLEL ITALIE-Associated Press  

(AP)-Kirk Douglas, the muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films and helped fatally weaken the Hollywood blacklist, has died at 103.

Douglas was nominated three times for Oscars _ for "Champion," "The Bad and the Beautiful" and "Lust for Life." He later received an honorary award for "50 years as a creative and moral force" in the movie industry.

His son Michael won Oscars as producer for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and as actor for “Wall Street.”