How Kirk Douglas Changed Hollywood Forever by Creating the Modern Movie Antihero

Remind Staff
(Original Caption) Kirk Douglas is shown in a scene from the movie The Champion, a movie directed by Mark Robson. The boxer character 'Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly due to stepping on other people.'
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There were plenty of terrific leading men before him. Rogues like Errol Flynn and Clark Gable. Hardboiled tough guys like Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney.

But Kirk Douglas added something new to the mix; he was really a category unto himself, as he gave us the modern movie antihero.

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