영화 명성만큼이나 오래 산 '커크 더글라스' 103세로 영면 VIDEO: Kirk Douglas, Hollywood Tough Guy And 'Spartacus' Superstar, Dies At 103
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood Tough Guy And 'Spartacus' Superstar, Dies At 103
February 5, 20206:51 PM ET
Kirk Douglas, the self-described "ragman's son" who became a global Hollywood superstar in the 1950s and '60s, died on Wednesday. He was 103. Douglas was often cast as a troubled tough guy in films, most famously as a rebellious Roman slave named Spartacus. Off-screen, he was devoted to family and to humanitarian causes.
Actor Kirk Douglas, shown above at 39, was born Issur Danielovitch in New York to Russian Jewish parents. He would later tell his own children that they didn't have his "advantage of being born into abject poverty."/photo: CNN.com
영화 명성만큼이나 오래 산 '커크 더글라스' 103세로 영면 1950년대와 60년대 글로벌 할리우드 슈퍼스타가 된 '라그맨의 아들' 커크 더글러스(Kirk Douglas)가 26일 별세했다. 그는 103세였다. 더글라스는 종종 영화에서 말썽 많은 터프한 남자로 캐스팅되었는데, 가장 유명한 것은 스파르타쿠스라는 반항적인 로마의 노예였다. 그는 영화 밖에서는 가족과 인도주의적인 대의에 헌신했다. 역시 명배우인 그의 아들 마이클 더글라스는 이 배우의 죽음을 알렸다. "세상에 그는 전설이었다... 하지만 나와 내 형제인 조엘과 피터에게 그는 그야말로 아빠였다." 마이클 더글러스는 "커크의 삶은 잘 살았고, 그는 앞으로 대대로 지속될 영화 속에 유산을 남기고, 대중을 돕고 지구에 평화를 가져오기 위해 일했던 유명한 자선가로서의 역사를 남긴다"고 썼다. 커크 더글라스는 구수한 턱과 앙증맞은 목소리, 그리고 이를 악물고 말하는 듯한 턱까지 세팅된 전형적인 할리우드 알파 남성이었다. 그는 자기 갈 길을 가는 남자들을 연기하며 자기 갈 길을 가기로 의식적으로 선택했다. 스탠리 큐브릭의 제1차 세계대전의 서사시인 '영광의 길'에서 더글러스는 원칙주의적인 ' 닥스 대령'을 연기하며 기득권과 싸우는 선인의 상징적인 역할에 발을 들여놓았다. 그러나 더글러스는 그가 "힘든 개자식들"이라고 부르는 것을 연기하는 것이 거의 더 편안해 보였다. 또는 어떻게 해서든, 시스템을 게임하는 결함이 있는 남자들. 그의 초기 타이틀 역할 중 두 가지는 챔피언의 백스택 복서와 혼을 든 영맨의 자기 파괴적인 코네티스트로서 대중이 그들을 포용하는 것처럼 발뒤꿈치로 변하는 스타들을 묘사했다. 머지않아, 더글러스는 그 명성을 스스로 발전시켰다. 회고록에서 더글러스는 자신의 어린 자신을 "자기중심적이고 야심적"이라고 표현하며 그를 그다지 좋아하지 않는다고 주장했다. 그러나 연마적이면서도 빈센트 반 고흐를 연기한 것과 같은 그의 최고의 연기는 그야말로 전기적이었다. Michael Douglas, left, and Kirk Douglas in 2018 at a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony Nina Prommer/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (배우 마이클 더글라스가 아버지 커크 더블라스 말에 귀를 기울이고 있다) 할리우드에서 20년 이상 동안 더글러스는 그의 타이틀 중 하나로 매년 2, 3개의 주연을 맡으며 "거대한 그림자를 드리운다"고 선언했다. 그가 샬턴 헤스턴에게 배역을 빼앗기고 벤허에 캐스팅되지 않자, 더글러스는 몇 달 뒤 자신의 로마 서사시인 스파르타쿠스로 손실에 맞섰다. 더글라스는 이 영화를 제작했고 로마인 인질들을 상대로 반란을 일으킨 주인공으로 출연했다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator |
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His son Michael Douglas announced the actor's death: "To the world he was a legend. ... But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad."
"Kirk's life was well lived, and he leaves a legacy in film that will endure for generations to come, and a history as a renowned philanthropist who worked to aid the public and bring peace to the planet," Michael Douglas wrote.
Kirk Douglas was a classic Hollywood alpha male, with his cleft chin, his gritty voice and a set to his jaw that made him seem to be talking through clenched teeth. He made a conscious choice to go his own way by playing men who went theirs. In Stanley Kubrick's World War I epic, Paths of Glory, Douglas played the principled Colonel Dax, stepping into an iconic role of the good man fighting the establishment.
But Douglas seemed almost more comfortable playing what he liked to call "tough sons of bitches," or flawed men who were, one way or another, gaming the system. Two of his earliest title roles, as the backstabbing boxer in Champion and the self-destructive cornetist in Young Man With a Horn, portrayed stars who turn into heels just as the public embraces them.
Before long, Douglas had developed that reputation himself. Looking back in his memoirs, Douglas described his younger self as "egotistical and ambitious" and claimed not to like him very much. But his best performances, such as his portrayal of an abrasive but driven Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life, were memorably electric.
For more than two decades in Hollywood, Douglas "cast a giant shadow," as one of his titles proclaimed, playing two or even three starring roles each year. When he was not cast for Ben-Hur, losing the role to Charlton Heston, Douglas countered the loss months later with his own Roman epic, Spartacus. Douglas produced the film and starred as the title character who famously revolted against his Roman captors.
Douglas poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif., in December 2014.
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Off-screen, Douglas also led an open revolt, against Hollywood's blacklist. The communist witch hunts of the 1950s had destroyed many careers, including that of Spartacus screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had written for years under an alias. Douglas was disgusted by this hypocrisy, and saying, "To hell with it," he put Trumbo's real name in the film credits.
When Spartacus became a hit, the blacklist was effectively finished. More than three decades later, speaking with NPR's Susan Stamberg, Douglas reflected upon this impulsive but life-defining decision: "Sometimes I often think that if I were much older, would I still have done it? Anyhow, I did it. It was an impulsive thing. I'm proud of it. I think it's one of the good things that I've done in life."
Douglas the bold blacklist-breaker had come a long way, and from very humble beginnings. Born Issur Danielovitch in New York to illiterate, desperately poor Russian Jewish parents, he was the only boy among seven siblings. He would later tell his own children that they didn't have his "advantage of being born into abject poverty."
From an early age, that "advantage" forced Douglas to put himself out there with the public, and he worked odd jobs, scrounged for food and talked his way into college and loans. Acting school and a stint in the Navy followed college, as well as minor success on Broadway using the new stage name that he would keep for the rest of his career. Then Hollywood beckoned, and within four years, Douglas had made eight films, had established his persona as a tough guy and had earned the first of his three Oscar nominations as a barrel-chested prizefighter in Champion.
True to the roles he liked to play, success did not make Douglas a "nice guy." Though married, he had affairs with actresses Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich and Ava Gardner. He was mostly an absentee father to his first two sons; frequently he broke studio contracts and feuded with directors. In 1964, he said, "I am probably the most disliked actor in Hollywood, and I feel pretty good about it, because that's me."
Douglas with his eldest sons, Joel (center) and Michael, circa 1956.
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The 1960s were his glory days as he starred in hit after hit. Douglas battled a presidential overthrow in Seven Days in May and was torn between Faye Dunaway and Deborah Kerr in The Arrangement. He played gunslingers, lawyers, admirals, doctors and con men, and he worked steadily through the next two decades.
When the tough guy schtick got old, Douglas turned to comedy and mocked it in a film called Tough Guys, in which he starred with his friend and frequent co-star Burt Lancaster. Not even a helicopter crash in 1991, when he was 74, slowed Douglas down — though the fact that a pilot and another passenger had died, he told NPR, did change his worldview. "It makes you think about other people," Douglas said. "I think that you have to — as you get old in life and as you mature — you have to be aware more of the outside world and other people."
Just a year after that 1994 interview, a stroke left him almost entirely unable to speak. He had thoughts of suicide. He wrote: "What does an actor do who can't talk? ... Wait for silent pictures to come back?"
Douglas' book My Stroke of Luck describes how he recovered by reaching out to others and by rediscovering the Judaism he'd been neglecting for 60 years.
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