Kirk Douglas, veteran actor, producer, director and author turned 101 on 9 December.
Kirk Douglas is one of the last living stars of the film industry’s ‘Golden Age’.
He landed his first role in the 1946 film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers and was soon on the road to stardom, becoming one of the hottest stars of the 1950s and ’60s, with appearances in dramas, Westerns and war movies. In fact, Douglas is currently number 17 on the American Film Institute’s list of greatest male on-screen stars of classic Hollywood cinema.