Kirk Douglas him to only say "Thank you", and leave the stage. Douglas agreed. But when standing in front of the audience, he had second thoughts: "I intended to just say 'thank you,' but I saw 1,000 people, and felt I had to say something more, and I did." Valenti remembers that after Douglas held up the Oscar, addressed his sons, and told his wife how much he loved her, everyone was astonished at his voice's improvement: Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, filmmaker, author and centenarian. He is one of the last
Morgan Jones (actor, born 1928) Morgan Jones (actor, born 1928) Morgan Adair Jones (June 15, 1928 – January 13, 2012) was an American film and television actor. His acting credits, which included more than 170 roles in television, included reoccurring appearances in "Highway Patrol" during the 1950s and "The Blue Angels". Jones was born in Wooster, Ohio. He enlisted the United States Navy and moved to California when he was stationed at Naval Base Coronado. His approximately twenty-five screen credits included a lead role in the 1957 science fiction film, "Not of This Earth", by Roger Corman, as well as other castings in "Apache Woman"