All Kirk Douglas Movies Ranked

The latest : “I’m Spartacus!” — Spartacus turns 65.

It wasn’t until 1946, after serving in the United States Navy during World War II and enjoying a subsequent stage career, that Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas , then 30 years old, first stepped in front of a camera for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers . By 1950, he’d be a Best Actor Oscar nominee: As Midge Kelly in Champion , he set a new standard in realism in boxing movies. Though blatantly endowed with leading-man looks, Douglas’ athleticism and versatility kept him maneuvering across genres during this peak period, playing a desperate reporter in Billy Wilder’s 1951 film Ace in the Hole just as film noir began to fade, and taking on his first Western of many more to come that same year

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