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Acting

Kirk Douglas

Career: Active from 1946 to 2008, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 79
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Paths of Glory
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 85 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Kirk Douglas Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Coming of Age
2.0, average 3.0
Uncanny
1.5, average 2.5
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 9
Social Commentary 8
Character-Driven 8
Character Study 8
Historical Drama 7
Classic Western 7
Historical Setting 6
Political Intrigue 5
Western 5
Moral Ambiguity 4
Melancholy Tone 4
Witty Dialogue 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

108

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

3 titles · average score 78

Mike Wallace Is Here

78

as (archive footage)

Vincent van Gogh Superstar

as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

78

as (archive footage)

2000s

3 titles · average score 46

Empire State Building Murders

as Jim Kovalski

Illusion

49

as Donald Baines

It Runs in the Family

43

as Mitchell Gromberg

1990s

10 titles · average score 51

Diamonds

31

as Harry Agensky

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

as General Kalthrob

Greedy

45

as Uncle Joe

The Lies Boys Tell

57

as Ed Reese

Touched by an Angel

44

TV show · as Ross Berger

The Secret

75

as Grandpa Mike Dunmore

Two-Fisted Tales

54

as General Calthrop

Welcome to Veraz

as Quentin

Oscar

48

as Eduardo Provolone

Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea

as Ned Land (archive footage)

1980s

17 titles · average score 59

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Chester J. Lampwick (voice)

Inherit the Wind

69

as Matthew Harrison Brady

Queenie

59

TV show · as David Konig

Tough Guys

47

as Archie Long

Amos

70

as Amos Lasher

Draw!

53

as Harry H. Holland aka Handsome Harry Holland

Eddie Macon's Run

45

as Carl 'Buster' Marzack

The Man from Snowy River

65

as Harrison / Spur

Remembrance Of Love

as Joe Rabin

The Final Countdown

57

as Capt. Matthew Yelland

Saturn 3

32

as Major Adam

Home Movies

49

as Dr. Tuttle

1970s

18 titles · average score 52

The Villain

24

as Cactus Jack

The Fury

66

as Peter Sandza

Holocaust 2000

47

as Robert Caine

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

55

TV show · as Alex Vandervoort

Posse

63

as Howard Nightingale

Once Is Not Enough

35

as Mike Wayne

Scalawag

46

as Peg

The Master Touch

59

as Steve Wallace

The Light at the Edge of the World

61

as Will Denton

A Gunfight

54

as Will Tenneray

Catch Me a Spy

42

as Andrej

There Was a Crooked Man...

64

as Paris Pitman, Jr.

1960s

22 titles · average score 64

The Arrangement

35

as Eddie Anderson

The War Wagon

64

as Lomax

The Way West

40

as Sen. William J. Tadlock

Cast a Giant Shadow

59

as Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus

The Heroes of Telemark

65

as Dr. Rolf Pedersen

In Harm's Way

54

as Commander Paul Eddington, Jr.

Seven Days in May

81

as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey

The List of Adrian Messenger

65

as George Brougham / Vicar Atlee / Mr. Pythian / Arthur Henderson

Lonely are the Brave

85

as John W. "Jack" Burns

Two Weeks in Another Town

75

as Jack Andrus

The Last Sunset

62

as Brendan 'Bren' O'Malley

Spartacus

84

as Spartacus

1950s

27 titles · average score 68

Last Train from Gun Hill

82

as Marshal Matt Morgan

The Devil's Disciple

68

as Richard Dudgeon

The Vikings

73

as Einar

Paths of Glory

90

as Col. Dax

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

70

as Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday

Lust for Life

72

as Vincent van Gogh

Man Without a Star

82

as Dempsey Rae

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

79

as Ned Land

Ulysses

58

as Ulysses

The Bad and the Beautiful

79

as Jonathan Shields

Ace in the Hole

81

as Charles Tatum

Detective Story

74

as Det. James McLeod

1940s

8 titles · average score 69

Champion

70

as Midge Kelly

A Letter to Three Wives

89

as George Phipps

My Dear Secretary

51

as Owen Waterbury

The Walls of Jericho

61

as Tucker Wedge

Out of the Past

83

as Whit Sterling

I Walk Alone

52

as Noll "Dink" Turner

Mourning Becomes Electra

61

as Peter Niles

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

86

as Walter O'Neil