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Wed Feb 5, 2020, 08:05 PM Feb 2020

Kirk Douglas has passed at 103 years old.

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Hollywood Icon Kirk Douglas Has Died At 103

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adambvary/kirk-douglas-spartacus-dies

Kirk Douglas, the last leading man of Hollywood's Golden Age and best known for his title role in 1960s Spartacus, died Wednesday, his family announced. He was 103.

“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” his son, actor Michael Douglas, said in an Instagram post. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.”


No cause of death was given.

Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky on Dec. 9, 1916, to Russian Jewish immigrants in the small town of Amsterdam, New York, Douglas served in World War II in the US Navy before parlaying early success on Broadway (and a friendship with Lauren Bacall) into his wildly successful film career. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Douglas cut a striking figure as the prototypical male movie star — unabashedly handsome, with a barrel chest, bright smile, deep gravely voice, and trademark cleft chin.

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