Horse Trader: Douglas and Issur Danielovitch

horse trader: The actor, whose name at birth was Issur Danielovitch, was the son of poor Jewish immigrants from Russia, according to Hamilton Spectator. He had six sisters and the language spoken at home was Yiddish. With 91 acting credits, Douglas is number 17 on the American Film Institute list of greatest screen legends and the highest ranked person still living. In his 1988 biography, Douglas described an impoverished childhood in which his father, formerly a horse trader in Russia, made a precarious living with a cart and a horse selling discarded clothing. Douglas received three Oscar nominations for roles in Champion 1949 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 and Lust for Life 1956 in which he played Vincent Van Gogh. The book is called The Ragman Son and Douglas noted the ragman was on the lowest rung on the ladder in the community in which his family grew up, Amsterdam, New York. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.