Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas dies at 103

Kirk Douglas, one of the last geniuses of Hollywood's brilliant time of cinema renowned for his intense, substantial exhibitions in "Spartacus" and "Ways of Glory," passed on Wednesday matured 103.

The US driving man, maker and chief came to outstanding quality in the late 1940s and never lost his ubiquity, taking on almost 100 films over a six-decade vocation that suffered past an extreme stroke in his later years.

His passing at his family home in Beverly Hills was affirmed by his child Michael, the Oscar-winning on-screen character and movie producer.

"It is with colossal pity that my siblings and I declare that Kirk Douglas left us today at 103 years old," Michael Douglas said in an announcement presented on Facebook.

"To the world, he was a legend, an on-screen character from the brilliant time of motion pictures who lived very much into his brilliant years, a philanthropic whose duty to equity and the causes he put stock in setting a standard for us all to desire."

Tributes poured in from across Hollywood and around the globe via web-based networking media, with many announcing "I am Spartacus!" in a gesture to Douglas' incredible job as a defiant Roman slave.

"Kirk Douglas. The moving Scalawag," composed entertainer Danny DeVito, about the 1973 motion picture of a similar name - the main movie Douglas coordinated.

"103 years on this planet. That is got a decent ring to it! Extraordinary hanging with you, man," he included.

"Shattered. Kirk Douglas was a companion and an outright legend of a star and human. He improved as time passes," expressed "Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander, including: "We could utilise a genuine Spartacus."

The Academy which grants the Oscars tweeted: "Farewell to a Hollywood legend."

Douglas conceived Issur Danielovitch to Jewish-Russian migrants in upstate New York in 1916, started as a phase entertainer before serving in the US Navy during the Second World War.

He graduated to motion pictures in 1946 when "Casablanca" maker Hal Wallis marked him, and he turned into a star for his job as a betraying and womanising fighter in 1949's "Champion."

His indirect jobs would regularly reflect his natural world, overwhelming and exceptional persona, remembering a heartless motion picture maker for "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952) and tormented craftsman Vincent van Gogh in "Desire forever" (1956).

Douglas revealed to The New York Times in a 1984 meeting that he had "consistently been pulled in to characters who are part blackguard," including: "I don't discover ethicalness photogenic."

He was famous for his environmental responsibility to jobs, preparing for a considerable length of time to play a fighter in "Champion," and figuring out how to horse ride and fire in the 1957 Western "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral".

Douglas accumulated three Oscar assignments, the keep going for "Desire forever," yet passed up a great opportunity each time and was never selected again. He always lost a serious Academy Award.

In any case, he was conceded a privileged lifetime accomplishment statuette by the Academy in 1996 - only months after his stroke - "for a long time as an imaginative and good power in the movie network."

Douglas is made due by second spouse Anne Buydens, 100, and three children. A fourth youngster, Eric, kicked the bucket of a medication overdose in his 40s, in 2004.

"(To) me and my siblings Joel and Peter he was just Dad, to Catherine (Zeta-Jones), a superb dad-in-law, to his grandkids and incredible grandkid their caring granddad, and his significant other Anne, a magnificent spouse," said Michael.

"Kirk's life was very much lived, and he leaves an inheritance in the film that will suffer for a long time into the future, and a history as a prestigious humanitarian who attempted to help the general population and carry harmony to the planet."