The stage and screen entertainer was notable for a scope of jobs, including the 1960 great Spartacus, in which he played the main character.
Conceived in New York in 1916, he rose to unmistakable quality during Hollywood's "brilliant age", acquiring his first Oscar selection for the 1949 boxing story Champion.
He was likewise the dad of Oscar-winning on-screen character Michael Douglas.
Michael said in an announcement: "It is with colossal bitterness that my siblings and I declare that Kirk Douglas left us today."
"To the world, he was a legend, an entertainer from the brilliant time of films... in any case, to me and my siblings Joel and Peter he was just Dad," it read to some extent.
"Let me end with the words I let him know on his last birthday and which will consistently stay genuine. Father - I love you so much and I am so pleased to be your child."
Michael's better half and Kirk's little girl in-law, Welsh on-screen character Catherine Zeta Jones, posted a photograph of the two together, stating: "I will adore you for an incredible remainder. I miss you as of now."
At the point when I met Kirk Douglas in 2008 he was a jaunty 91. He discussed his propelling years and the effect a stroke, in 1996, had on his abilities as an on-screen character.
"I was unable to talk by any means," he let me know. "So what does an entertainer do who can't talk? He trusts that quiet pictures will return! That is a cheesy joke," he laughed.
Douglas was especially glad for his job in closure the Hollywood boycott, when he challenged the prohibition on working with producers with supposed socialist ties or feelings.
He said he drew on "the imprudent characteristics of more youthful Kirk" in settling on his choice to give the boycotted essayist Dalton Trumbo a screen credit under his own name for his work on Spartacus.
We talked about his enthusiasm for working with youngsters. He had begun composing a blog to urge youthful Americans to cast a ballot in that year's presidential political race.
Douglas and his better half gave a large number of dollars to admirable missions and helped assemble many school play areas. He said their way of thinking was: "Before you bite the dust, attempt to accomplish something for others."
Douglas was productive as a film on-screen character, with in excess of 90 credits to his name - extending more than seven decades from the 1940s to the 2000s.
He is maybe most popular for Spartacus, a Stanley Kubrick film which won four Oscars and was well known to such an extent that its notable "I am Spartacus" scene entered the pop social dictionary.
Douglas was himself designated for an Oscar multiple times - for Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Lust forever (1956). He in the long run won the privileged honor in 1996 in acknowledgment of his 50 years in the business.
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