Kirk Douglas
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Birth Name: Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Born: 9 December 1916 Died: 5 February 2020
Country of origin: United States
Height: 5' 9"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Anne Buydens
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Almost Unrecognizable
(95 items)list by coroner
Published 15 years, 5 months ago
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Caricatures by Patrick Strogulski *updated 2015*
(85 items)list by Aira
Published 13 years, 3 months ago
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Impossible celebrity couples
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Published 13 years, 5 months ago
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Actors/Actresses: Roles they refused or didn't get
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Published 13 years, 1 month ago
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155 votes
A Change of Names
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Published 15 years, 8 months ago
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Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name give to his best-selling 1988 autobiography) of Russian-Jewish ancestry to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas was actually born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in Amsterdam, New York, in 1916. Although growing up in a poor ghetto, Douglas was a fine student and a keen athlete and wrestled competitively during his time at St. Lawrence University. However, he soon identified an acting scholarship as a way out of his meager existence, and was sufficiently talented to gain entry into the American Academy of
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1. The Simpsons
Rating: | 5812 Watched |
2. Saturday Night Live (1975)
Rating: | 1163 Watched |
3. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Rating: | 671 Watched |
4. Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Rating: | 551 Watched |
5. The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986)
Rating: | 482 Watched |
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1. Spartacus (1960)
Rating: | 1122 Watched |
2. Paths of Glory (1957)
Rating: | 930 Watched |
3. Ace in the Hole (1951)
Rating: | 328 Watched |
4. Out of the Past (1948)
Rating: | 328 Watched |
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1. Scalawag (1973)
Rating: | 6 Watched |
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