Douglas, Kirk

Actor. Kirk Dou?glas is most at home in the melodrama, with a?performance?style?of?barely?contained emotional explosiveness and below-surface tension. However, he has appeared in many successful Westerns and both directed and acted in Posse.?In Man Without a Star he becomes a symbol of the genre's 'freedom versus restraint' theme with his hatred of being fenced in, and in Lonely Are the Brave he becomes a symbol of the outdated West?ern?? hero?when?he?is?run?down?by?an articulated truck. He also appeared as Doc Holliday in Qunfight at the O.K. Corral.