![]() It was one of a few close calls the actor had over the years in 1991, a helicopter he was riding in crashed into a small plane. Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in 1916, he nearly drowned at 5. “But he is, first and foremost, a man of extraodirnary character … the kind we always look for at our darkest hour.”ĭouglas’ 1988 autobiography, The Ragman’s Son (referring to his Russian-Jewish ancestry) attests to his lean early years growing up in a New York ghetto, the son of illiterate Russian immigrants. ![]() ![]() Clooney would go on to write the forward to Douglas’ 2012 book I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist, where he described his role in overcoming the dreaded communist blacklist of his era.
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