He played a pretty good early "wise guy" role and his war movies were always good too. Year Title Role Notes 1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Walter O'Neil 1947 Out of the Past Whit Sterling Mourning Becomes Electra Peter Niles 1948 I Walk Alone Noll "Dink" Turner The Walls of Jericho[1] Tucker Wedge 1948 My Dear Secretary Owen Waterbury 1949 A Letter to Three Wives George Phipps Champion Michael "Midge" Kelly Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor[2] 1950 Young Man with a Horn Rick Martin The Glass Menagerie Jim O'Connor 1951 Along the Great Divide Marshal Len Merrick Ace in the Hole Chuck Tatum Detective Story Detective Jim McLeod 1952 The Big Trees Jim Fallon The Big Sky Jim Deakins The Bad and the Beautiful Jonathan Shields Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor 1953 The Story of Three Loves Pierre Narval The Juggler Hans Muller Act of Love Robert Teller 1954 The Jack Benny Program TV series 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Ned Land 1955 The Racers Gino Borgesa Ulysses Odysseus aka Ulysses Man Without a Star Dempsey Rae The Indian Fighter Johnny Hawks 1956 Lust for Life Vincent van Gogh Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor 1957 Top Secret Affair Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Doc Holliday Paths of Glory Colonel Dax 1958 The Vikings Einar 1959 Last Train from Gun Hill Matt Morgan The Devil's Disciple Richard "Dick" Dudgeon 1960 Strangers When We Meet Larry Coe Spartacus Spartacus Also co-executive producer 1961 Town Without Pity Major Garrett The Last Sunset Brendan "Bren" O'Malley 1962 Lonely Are the Brave John W. "Jack" Burns Two Weeks in Another Town Jack Andrus 1963 The Hook Sgt. P.J. Briscoe The List of Adrian Messenger Various For Love or Money Donald Kenneth "Deke" Gentry 1964 Seven Days in May Colonel Jiggs Casey 1965 In Harm's Way Commander Paul Eddington The Heroes of Telemark Dr Rolf Pedersen 1966 Cast a Giant Shadow Col. Mickey Marcus Is Paris Burning? Gen. George Patton 1967 The Way West Sen. William J. Tadlock The War Wagon Lomax 1968 Once Upon a Wheel Himself Documentary A Lovely Way to Die Jim Schuyler The Brotherhood Frank Ginetta Also producer 1969 The Arrangement Eddie Anderson 1970 There Was a Crooked Man... Paris Pitman Jr. The Johnny Cash Show Himself/Singer TV series (1 episode: #1.18) 1971 To Catch a Spy Andrej The Light at the Edge of the World Will Denton Also producer A Gunfight Will Tenneray 1972 The Master Touch Steve Wallace 1973 Scalawag Peg Also director Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Musical TV movie 1974 Mousey George Anderson TV movie 1975 Posse Marshal Howard Nightingale Also director/producer Once Is Not Enough Mike Wayne 1976 Victory at Entebbe Hershel Vilnofsky TV movie 1977 Holocaust 2000 Robert Caine aka Rain of Fire and The Chosen 1978 The Fury Peter Sandza 1979 The Villain Cactus Jack 1980 Saturn 3 Adam Home Movies Dr. Tuttle "The Maestro" The Final Countdown Capt. Matthew Yelland 1982 The Man from Snowy River Harrison/Spur Remembrance of Love[3] Joe Rabin 1983 Eddie Macon's Run Marzack 1984 Draw! Harry H. Holland TV movie Hollywood Greats Himself TV series (1 episode: "John Wayne") 1985 Amos[4] Amos Lasher TV movie 1986 Tough Guys Archie Long 1987 Queenie David Konig TV movie 1988 Inherit the Wind Matthew Harrison Brady 1991 Oscar Eduardo Provolone Veraz/Welcome to Veraz[5] Quentin Tales from the Crypt General Kalthrob TV series (1 episode: "Yellow") 1992 The Secret Grandpa Mike Dunmore TV movie 1994 A Century of Cinema Himself Documentary Greedy Uncle Joe McTeague Take Me Home Again Ed Reece TV movie 1996 The Simpsons Chester J. Lampwick Voice, TV series (1 episode: "The Day the Violence Died") 1997 Xena: Warrior Princess Spartacus TV series; archive footage (1 episode: "Athens Academy of the Performing Bards") 1999 Diamonds Harry Agensky 2000 Touched by an Angel Ross Burger TV series (1 episode: "Bar Mitzvah") 2003 It Runs in the Family Mitchell Gromberg His son Michael Douglas and grandson Cameron Douglas also appeared in the film[6] 2004 Illusion Donald Baines 2008 Empire State Building Murders[7] Jim Kovalski TV movie; aka Meurtres à L'Empire State Building; final role References
Kirk also wrote his biography titled THE RAGMAN'S SON. It's a great read, and unlike so many celebrity bios, he actually wrote it himself.
