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Actor Kirk Douglas celebrates his 100th birthday Dec. 9, 2016. Check out some memorable moments from his life and career.

1949: American actor Kirk Douglas in a promotional portrait for "Champion," directed by Mark Robson. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

1952: Actors Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner pose for a movie promotional photo for "The Bad and the Beautiful. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

1953: Italian actress Silvana Mangano acting in the film "Ulysses" with American actor Kirk Douglas in Cinecitta Studios. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

1955: American actor Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch Demsky) holding Italian actress Elsa Martinelli in his arms in the film "The Indian Fighter." (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

1959: American actor Kirk Douglas pointing a dagger at the throat of the Czech actor Herbert Lom (Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchacevicze Schluderpacheru) in the film Spartacus. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

1961: American actor Kirk Douglas as Brendan "Bren" O'Malley and Dorothy Malone as Belle Breckenridge in "The Last Sunset," directed by Robert Aldrich. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

1980: Harry Shearer as General, Garrett Morris as Anwar Sadat, Kirk Douglas as Colonel Lloyd D. Westman, Laraine Newman as Nicole Westman and Bill Murray as Captain Steve McCleod during the "The Micro-Dentists" skit on "Saturday Night Live" on Feb. 23, 1980. (Photo by: Fred Bronson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

1983: Kirk Douglas and son Eric. (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

1988: Actor Kirk Douglas and "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson on Aug. 31, 1988. (Photo by: Chris Haston/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

1994: Actor Kirk Douglas during an interview with "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno on June 24, 1994. (Photo by: Margaret Norton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

2010: Michael Douglas, Anne Buydens Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kirk Douglas attend the The Film Society of Lincoln Center's 37th annual Chaplin Award gala at Alice Tully Hall on May 24, 2010, in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

2011: Actor Kirk Douglas (left) and TV personality Kim Kardashian attend the Los Angeles Mission's 75th anniversary celebration and serving of it's traditional Thanksgiving meal at the Los Angeles Mission on Nov. 23, 2011, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)

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1949: American actor Kirk Douglas in a promotional portrait for "Champion," directed by Mark Robson. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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