Hollywood veteran Kirk Douglas has died at the age of 103.
Born in New York to Russian migrants in 1916, Douglas became an icon of Hollywood cinema during its golden age.
Douglas received his first Academy Award nomination in 1949, playing a ruthless boxer in Champion.
But it is the role of Spartacus in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 movie that he was best known for.
Douglas is survived by his wife Anne and four sons.
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Born in New York to Russian migrants in 1916, Douglas became an icon of Hollywood cinema during its golden age.
Douglas received his first Academy Award nomination in 1949, playing a ruthless boxer in Champion.
But it is the role of Spartacus in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 movie that he was best known for.
Douglas is survived by his wife Anne and four sons.
Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas dies aged 103
Douglas made more than 90 movies in a career that stretched across seven decades, and films such as Spartacus and The Vikings made him one of the biggest box office stars of the 1950s and '60s.
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