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Kirk Douglas Trivia
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- Turned down 2 Oscar winning roles: Lee Marvin's role in Cat Ballou (1965) and William Holden's role in Stalag 17 (1953).
- Recipient of American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement award, with screening of 16 Douglas's films. [December 1999]
- Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. This is the highest US honor a civilian can receive.
- Received honored UCLA Medal honor 14 June 2002 from the University of California, Los Angeles, during school's graduation ceremony for theater, film and television students. Previous recipients include former US Presidents Carter and Clinton, former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and actors Laurence Olivier and Carol Burnett.
- Kirk has celebrated his Bar Mitzvah twice. Once, obviously, when he was 13 years old and the other time when he was 83 years old.
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