Kirk Douglas has died at 103.

[Hardbopjazz]

A real fine actor. A real long life. RIP.

Spartacus and Lust For Life were my two favorite film with him. 

[Milestones]

Sad news, though hardly surprising.  He made a clot of classics.  I would include these too:

• Paths of Glory
• Ace in the Hole
• Champion
• Gunfight at the OK Corral
• Detective Story

Edited February 6, 2020 by Milestones

[Brad]

He was probably one of my favorites. Besides the movies mentioned above, the Bad and the Beautiful, Lonely Are the Brave and Last Train from Boot Hill are great ones and some of my favorites. 

[soulpope]

R.I.P ....

[Dave James]

"Bad and the Beautiful" is the one that stands out for me.  I also enjoyed some of his later films including the incredibly campy, "Final Countdown."  "Splash the Zeros.  I say again, splash the Zeros."  Silliness ensues.  

[porcy62]

The last Giant of Hollywood, he was the first to want Dalton Trumbo back on credits despite McCarthyism, a brave man too. RIP.

Edited February 6, 2020 by porcy62

[JSngry]

He was born about four years before Charlie Parker and outlived him by more damn near 65 years.

Think about that.

[Teasing the Korean]

7 hours ago, Dave James said:

"Bad and the Beautiful" is the one that stands out for me.  I also enjoyed some of his later films including the incredibly campy, "Final Countdown."  "Splash the Zeros.  I say again, splash the Zeros."  Silliness ensues.  

I will take the opportunity to post a suite of David Raksin's wonderful music for this film.  RIP, Kirk!

 

Edited February 6, 2020 by Teasing the Korean

[catesta]

4 hours ago, porcy62 said:

The last Giant of Hollywood, he was the first to want Dalton Trumbo back on credits despite McCarthyism, a brave man too. RIP.

Yep. He was also perhaps the last of a generation that lived their life with class, courtesy and an ability to separate politics from everyday life and friendships.

He wrote a touching tribute about Nancy Reagan when she passed a few years back that really showed what type of man he was. RIP

[porcy62]

5 minutes ago, catesta said:

Yep. He was also perhaps the last of a generation that lived their life with class, courtesy and an ability to separate politics from everyday life and friendships.

He wrote a touching tribute about Nancy Reagan when she passed a few years back that really showed what type of man he was. RIP

Absolutely agree.

[ghost of miles]

Paths Of Glory is my favorite Douglas performance, but I also like him a great deal in Out Of The Past.  Such an excellent foil for Robert Mitchum in that film.

Edited February 6, 2020 by ghost of miles

[Larry Kart]

8 hours ago, JSngry said:

He was born about four years before Charlie Parker and outlived him by more damn near 65 years.

Think about that.

Apples and oranges?

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Apples and oranges?

Well, if you're looking at solo fruits, sure. But if you're looking at a fruit salad, context. The dude predated the invention of bebop and outlived its usefulness. Who among us here today can make a claim like that? And if we perchance can, what stories we must have seen and lived, and not just in one world.

I mean, Kirk Douglas weren't no village grandmother in Czxitabolia. The guy got out in the world. Out and around.

[jlhoots]

I have 25 years to go then.

R.I.P.

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

Well, if you're looking at solo fruits, sure. But if you're looking at a fruit salad, context. The dude predated the invention of bebop and outlived its usefulness. Who among us here today can make a claim like that? And if we perchance can, what stories we must have seen and lived, and not just in one world.

I mean, Kirk Douglas weren't no village grandmother in Czxitabolia. The guy got out in the world. Out and around.

Sorry -- I  completely misunderstood the thrust of your "think about that" to mean that there was something wrong/unfair about Kirk Douglas living so long and Charlie Parker dying some 65 years before Douglas did.

[brownie]

Not really my favorite film with Kirk Douglas but he was a rather crédible trumpet player in thé 1950 Michael Curtiiz opus 'Young Man With a Horn' very loosely inspiréd by Bix Beiderbecke..