Journalism of Courage
Kirk Douglas passed away at his home in California on Wednesday. He was 103. The actor had a celebrated film career during the Golden Age of Hollywood. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
Kirk Douglas first shot to fame with the role of a boxer in the 1949 film Champion. (Photo: Express Archive)
Kirk Douglas is still remembered for films like Spartacus, Lonely are the Brave, Paths of Glory, Two Weeks in Another Town and Seven Days in May among more. (Photo: Express Archive)
Here Kirk Douglas is seen with wife Anne Buydens and Indrani Rehman.
Kirk Douglas was nominated for three Oscar awards. He was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy in 1996 for his contribution to the movies. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
Kirk Douglas received the Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz, File)
Kirk Douglas had a key role to play in weakening the Hollywood Blacklist where entertainment industry professionals were barred from working in Hollywood if they were thought to be Communists or Nazi sympathisers. He got Dalton Trumbo to write the movie Spartacus which played a major role in the eventual removal of the list. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
Kirk Douglas was born as Issur Danielovitch on December 9, 1916, in Amsterdam, New York. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
His son and actor Michael Douglas shared the news of his father's death on Facebook. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
