Issur Danielovitch was born in 1916 in Amsterdam, N.Y., and established his image as a tough guy actor after starring in his eighth film, “Champion,” a 1949 film noir drama about a selfish boxer struggling with inner demons. From then on, he made a career of playing “sons of b*tches” and was quoted as saying: “I don’t think I’d be much of an actor without vanity. And I’m not interested in being a ‘modest actor.’”
-He is No.17 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time.
-He received the Academy Honorary Award “for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community” in 1996.
-He is one of the few personalities (along with James Stewart, Gregory Peck, and Gene Autry) whose Hollywood Walk of Fame star has been stolen and later replaced.
-He has a very successful son who, like his father, is known for playing “sons of b*tches” and was one of the biggest actors of the ’80s and ’90s.
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