The son of a ragpicker on Hollywood Olympus. Kirk Douglas

The "Our People in Hollywood" series is a complex and fascinating biographies of major film figures - emigrants and people from emigrant families. This is a story about people who, despite the difficulties of emigrant life, reached the pinnacle of their creative activity and wrote names in the history of world cinema. Kirk Douglas (1916) is a great American actor who is called one of the last representatives of the Golden Era of Hollywood. The image of Spartacus embodied by Douglas in the f...