“I miss you already,” Zeta-Jones wrote in her tribute (via toofab)
The Academy, who honored Kirk with an Oscar for decades as a moral and creative force in the industry in 1996, tweeted a photo, above, of the actor in the iconic 1960 drama, "Spartacus" and shared a quote from Kirk speaking about his love of the craft.
"'I wanted to be an actor ever since I was a kid in the second grade,'" the quote read. "'I did a play, and my mother made a black apron, and I played a shoemaker. After the performance, [my father] gave me my first Oscar: an ice cream cone.' -Kirk Douglas" Kirk, born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in 1916, is survived by his spouse of nearly 66 years, Anne Buydens, and three sons, Michael, Joel and Peter. The legendary film star enjoyed relatively good health in the final 24 years of his life after recovering from a stroke in 1996.
His son Michael, 75, shared the news of his dad's death on Instagram Wednesday. "It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103," he captioned a pic of Kirk. "To the world he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.
"But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband," he added.
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