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Also Known As	Izzy Demskey • Issur Danielovitch
Born	December 9, 1916 • Amsterdam • New York
Died	February 5, 2020 (aged 103) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1995) • Kennedy Center Honors (1994) • Honorary Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1996) • Cecil B. DeMille Award (1968) • Golden Globe Award (1957): Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Notable Works	“Posse” • “Scalawag”
Married To	Anne Douglas (married 1954) • Diana Douglas (1943–1951)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"For Love or Money" (1963) • "Un uomo da rispettare" (1972) • "Ace in the Hole" (1951) • "The Simpsons" (1996) • "Lust for Life" (1956) • "Oscar" (1991) • "There Was a Crooked Man..." (1970) • "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957) • "The Racers" (1955) • "Man Without a Star" (1955) • "The Story of Three Loves" (1953) • "Paths of Glory" (1957) • "I Walk Alone" (1947) • "The Man from Snowy River" (1982) • "The War Wagon" (1967) • "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952) • "Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers" (1976) • "Home Movies" (1979) • "Lonely Are the Brave" (1962) • "Diamonds" (1999) • "My Dear Secretary" (1948) • "Queenie" (1987) • "Saturn 3" (1980) • "Top Secret Affair" (1957) • "The Final Countdown" (1980) • "Out of the Past" (1947) • "Last Train from Gun Hill" (1959) • "The Walls of Jericho" (1948) • "Touched by an Angel" (2000) • "Strangers When We Meet" (1960) • "Holocaust 2000" (1977) • "The Last Sunset" (1961) • "The List of Adrian Messenger" (1963) • "Detective Story" (1951) • "Illusion" (2004) • "The Indian Fighter" (1955) • "The Big Trees" (1952) • "The Light at the Edge of the World" (1971) • "A Gunfight" (1971) • "Is Paris Burning?" (1966) • "It Runs in the Family" (2003) • "Cast a Giant Shadow" (1966) • "Along the Great Divide" (1951) • "The Devil's Disciple" (1959) • "The Lucy Show" (1966) • "The Way West" (1967) • "The Brotherhood" (1968) • "The Hook" (1963) • "Ulisse" (1954) • "The Fury" (1978) • "Greedy" (1994) • "Posse" (1975) • "Eddie Macon's Run" (1983) • "The Big Sky" (1952) • "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954) • "Spartacus" (1960) • "Tough Guys" (1986) • "The Vikings" (1958) • "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) • "Veraz" (1991) • "The Heroes of Telemark" (1965) • "The Arrangement" (1969) • "Un acte d'amour" (1953) • "Scalawag" (1973) • "Two Weeks in Another Town" (1962) • "Tales from the Crypt" (1991) • "Once Is Not Enough" (1975) • "Young Man with a Horn" (1950) • "Catch Me a Spy" (1971) • "A Lovely Way to Die" (1968) • "The Villain" (1979) • "The Glass Menagerie" (1950) • "In Harm's Way" (1965) • "Champion" (1949) • "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1947) • "The Juggler" (1953) • "The Jack Benny Program" (1954) • "Seven Days in May" (1964) • "Town Without Pity" (1961) • "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949)
Movies/Tv Shows (Directed)	"Posse" (1975) • "Scalawag" (1973)
Movies/Tv Shows (Writing/Creator)	"Scalawag" (1973) • "Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget" (2009)