FrameThrower · Actors · Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
6 films · 310 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1947–1960
Born 9 December 1916 · Amsterdam, New York, USA · died 5 February 2020
Kirk Douglas was an American actor, producer, director and author. He grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the United States Navy during World War II.
During his career, Douglas appeared in more than 90 movies and was known for his explosive acting style. He became an international star for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Detective Story (1951), a film for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 310 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1947–1960
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award1967
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1956
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award1999
- Golden Bear2001
- César Award
- National Medal of Arts
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Lucien Barrière Literary Award1999
- Academy Honorary Award1995
- Kennedy Center Honors1994
- AFI Life Achievement Award1991
- Presidential Medal of Freedom1981
How their films are shot
Measured across 310 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kirk takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Kirk takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 310 frames from Kirk Douglas's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.