People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

Jekyll and Mr. He won a Golden Globe award for his role. Douglas made his Broadway debut in 1949 in the Anton Chekhov play Three Sisters produced by Katharine Cornell.

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He is one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's "golden age". His popular films include Out of the Past (1947) Champion (1949) Ace in the Hole (1951) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Lust for Life (1956) Paths of Glory (1957) Gunfight at the O. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time making him the highest-ranked living person on the list.