Hollywood Mourns Legendary Actor Kirk Douglas

on Wednesday, one of the last giants of Hollywood’s golden age and the star of such classics as “Spartacus” and “Ace in the Hole.”

Ron Meyer, the vice chairman of NBCUniversal, the studio behind “Spartacus,” said the screen icon will always hold a special place for his contribution to cinema: Filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner remembered Douglas for his courage in helping to end the Hollywood blacklist, drawn up in the 1940s and 50s to target entertainment professionals suspected of communist ties.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, whose father Tony Curtis also starred in “Spartacus,” used a line from her dad’s character Antoninus in the movie to remember Douglas also tweeted that:

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