The couple have donated the large sum to the Los Angeles Mission, an LA non-profit that supports homeless people with emergency and rehabilitation services...

The $5 million has been donated to the Anne Douglas Centre, the Los Angeles Mission's women's programme...

The Douglas family has been supporting the charity for 20 years via the Douglas Foundation, founded by Kirk Douglas and his wife, Anne in 1964.

The women's programme of the mission offers services for homeless women on Skid Row who are seeking to transform their lives...

The centre offers a safe environment for women to escape the streets and provides education and spiritual courses, and the opportunity to participate in a work programme...

The Douglas family originally funded the development of the Anne Douglas Centre in 1992 and have continued to support it...

Herb Smith, President of the Los Angeles Mission, says: "We are eternally grateful to the Douglas Foundation for this outstanding pledge to the future of the Anne Douglas Centre..."

The Los Angeles Mission provides a wide range of help for the destitute and those with addictions, including shelter, food, clothing, as well as medical help, training, housing and counselling...

For Kirk Douglas and his wife though it’s only a part of an incredible history of philanthropy...

The donation is a share of a record of philanthropy by the screen giant and his wife that recently saw them pledge a total of $50 million dollars to charity...

Last month the pair pledged a total of $50 million to five non-profit organisations, including the Motion Picture & Television Fund; as well as the Anne Douglas Centre for Women and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City...

Money was also pledged for the Sinai Temple, the synagogue in Westwood which is home to the Kirk and Anne Douglas Childhood Centre.

A donation was also provided to St Lawrence University in New York where Douglas studied acting, to widen a scholarship programme for minority students...

Both Douglas and his wife were born of immigrant parents from Europe. Douglas grew up in poverty in Amsterdam, New York and later received a scholarship at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City...

"Anne and I are of one mind in our philosophical approach to philanthropy...We believe caring is sharing..." Douglas has said...