(born 1916) (Kirk) b. 1944 (Michael) Father and son stars. Kirk (born Issur Danielovitch) broke into movies through physical egocentric male roles, epitomized in his Oscar nominations as a boxer in The Champions (1949) and as Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956). Awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981, he continued his acting career in the 1990s, while engaging in public service and authoring novels and the memoir The Ragman’s Son (1988). Michael starred as a television detective in Streets of San Francisco (ABC, 1972–7). On screen, he has come to personify the deep ambiguities and frustrations of the white middle-class male, whether entrepreneur (Wall Street, 1987, Oscar for Best Actor; Disclosure, 1994), husband (Fatal Attraction, 1987; War of the Roses, 1989), worker (Falling Down, 1993) or president (The American President, 1995)