Happy [Belated] Birthday! To actor Kirk Douglas...He Turned 96 years old on December 09,2012

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Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, Russian: И́сер Даниело́вич;^[2] December 9, 1916) is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past (1947), Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Vikings (1958), Spartacus (1960), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965) and Tough Guys(1986).

He is No.17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time, making him the highest-ranked living person on the list. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award"for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community."

He is one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's "golden age"...

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