Peter Douglas Peter Douglas Peter Vincent Douglas (born November 23, 1955) is an American television and film producer, a son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife, the German American producer Anne Buydens. Douglas was born in Los Angeles, California. His middle name was given him in homage to Vincent van Gogh, whom his father was playing in the film "Lust for Life" (1956) when he was born. He used it for his production company, Vincent Pictures. Peter Douglas' television production credits include "Inherit the Wind" (1988), for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special, and
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh more about his techniques, his use of color, and his theories. Van Gogh was an avid reader, and his letters reflect his literary pursuits as well as a uniquely authentic literary style. His writing style in the letters reflects the literature he read and valued: Balzac, historians such as Michelet, and naturalists such as Zola, Voltaire and Flaubert. Additionally he read novels written by George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Keats' poetry, reading mostly at night when the light was too poor for painting. Gauguin told him "that he read too much". Van Gogh scholar Jan Hulsker wrote of van