Goodbye Kirk!

I would love to live until I'm 103! The things this man has witnessed Kirk Douglas, known as one of the most beloved tough guys in Hollywood history on screen and a defender of blacklisted artists off screen, died Wednesday.

“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,” son Michael Douglas wrote on Instagram.

After cutting his teeth as a stage actor and scoring strong supporting roles in classic films like “Out of the Past,” Douglas would eventually emerge as a star in his own right with the 1949 boxing drama “Champion,” for which he earned the first of three Best Actor Academy Award nominations. (He would eventually take home a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1996).  And of course those action epics like “Spartacus” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” as well as more intimate character studies like “Lonely Are the Brave.”

The honorary Oscar recipient is survived by his wife, and three sons, Michael, Peter, and Joel Douglas. May you rest in peace good sir.