living History of the film, Kirk Douglas is a myth that grows with time and that, by becoming a centennial, it extends still further his legend. A story that was born on the 9th of December 1916 on the streets of New York and has expanded with their involvement in over a hundred films and in the creation of a series of interpreters, they even worked together in "It Runs in the Family" (2003).
The actor wrote his autobiography in 1988, titled, "The Ragman’s Are An Autobiography", in Spanish "The son of the ragman", which made a balance of his life as the son of jewish emigrants from Russia, who had left Moscow to avoid conscription for the russo-japanese war in the year 1908.
"When they came to the united States, my parents who were illiterate and poor, they believed that the streets were built with cobblestones of gold. My father became a ragman, because the jews were forbidden to work in factories," he commented in a press conference held at the end of the last century in Madrid.
Actually, the first few years of Issur Danielovitch Demsky, your real name, lived in the town of Amsterdam, county of Montgomery state of New York, and they were not easy, as after the abandonment of the home due to the parent’s had to perform, still a child, different jobs, such as selling candy or newspapers, because he was alone with his mother and six sisters.
His first dabbling with the application were in elementary school, but already in the institute of education, high school Wilbur Lynch won an award for reciting a poem, which encouraged him to enter the university to graduate in letters.
The matter is that he did not have enough money to enroll in college, but the self-confidence that he showed throughout his life encouraged him to speak with the dean of the College of St. Lawrence, with who came to a covenant. I signed up, but in exchange had to perform various tasks on the campus, in between work was a gardener and janitor in that institution until he graduated in 1939.
At this time, the protagonist of the legendary film of Stanley Kubrick, "Spartacus" (1960), precisely also got a scholarship, thanks to her participation at the university in wrestling.
Finishes his university studies, and with the proceeds moved to New York, where he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his debut on Broadway in 1941 and, the following year, we mobilized to go to the military service, where he graduated as an ensign and was assigned to a unit of telecommunications in the Pacific Ocean.
In the midst of the campaign of the Second World War, he was discharged from war wounds and returned to New York in 1943, where he participated in several theatrical productions and played on radio stations.
These are the first skirmishes in the tables were made thanks to the aid of Lauren Bacall, whom he met at the Academy of Art, who led him to debut as an actor in Hollywood in 1946, when she starred in her first film, "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers", by filmmaker Lewis Milestone.
This was the beginning of a career that has made him participate in around a hundred films, most of them as the main actor of the cast, but where he has also left his mark as a producer and even director of two films: " Scalawag" (1973) and "Posse" (1975), films that also starred in.
awards
in Addition has always been a great lover of the theatre, and has also been numerous incursions to the television. On stage he starred in 1963′s "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" (one flew over the cuckoo’s nest), whose right to the cinema had acquired and which was brought to the big screen in 1975, produced by his son Michael, and starring Jack Nicholson. The film won 5 Oscar awards.
An award that, precisely, he was awarded the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Hollywood Kirk Douglas, with Honorific character, in the year 1996. However, the centennial Douglas was nominated for the trophy of the "uncle Oscar" three times. First in 1949 for "Champion"; in 1952 for "The Bad and the Beautiful"; and in 1956 for "Lust for Life".
in Addition to the Oscar, the "crazy red hair", as it is known a time by the great role that was giving life to the painter Van Gogh, he has received throughout his professional career Cecil B. de Mille (Golden Globe honorary), 1968; the premio César, awarded by the French Academy in 1980; the Golden Bear honorary, of the Berlin film Festival of 2001; and the Britannia Award 2009, in the United Kingdom, among others.
in Addition is in possession of the Order of Arts and Letters, granted by the government of France in 1979; the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981; or the National Medal of the united States of Arts and Humanities, 2001.
But Kirk Douglas has always been a very active man and their directions artistic have sailed several facets. After the success of the first part of his autobiography he completed with the title "Climbing the Mountain" in 1997, and also made his first steps in the world of literature by writing the novel "Dance with the Devil", published in 1990.
Man of deep beliefs Hebrew, was spokesman for a few years, the centre Simon Wiesenthal, specialized in studies on the jewish holocaust, and was appointed ambassador extraordinary of the Department of State of EE. UU.
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