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Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films and was known for his explosive acting style. Douglas played an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion , which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

He received his second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in The Bad and the Beautiful , opposite Lana Turner , and earned his third for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life , a role for which he won the Golden Globe for the Best Actor in a Drama. He also starred with James Mason in the adventure 20, Leagues Under the Sea , a large box-office hit.

In September , he established Bryna Productions , which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory and Spartacus In those two films, he collaborated with the then relatively unknown director Stanley Kubrick , taking lead roles in both films.

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Douglas helped to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit. In , he starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas , who turned it into an Oscar-winning film. Douglas continued acting into the s, appearing in such films as Saturn 3 , The Man from Snowy River , Tough Guys , a reunion with Lancaster, and in the television version of Inherit the Wind plus in an episode of Touched by an Angel in , for which he received his third nomination for an Emmy Award.

As an author, he wrote ten novels and memoirs. After barely surviving a helicopter crash in and then suffering a stroke in , he focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life. He lived with his second wife, producer Anne Buydens , until his death in A centenarian , Douglas was one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age.

His father's brother, who had immigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky , which Douglas's family adopted in the United States. In his autobiography, The Ragman's Son , Douglas notes the hardships that he, along with his parents and six sisters, endured during their early years in Amsterdam:.