
Michael Douglas
Biography
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award. The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas earned his Bachelor of Arts in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations. In 1975, Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, earning Douglas his first Oscar as one of the film's producers. Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy, and The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (a role he reprised in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010). Other notable roles include in Fatal Attraction (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Basic Instinct (1992), Falling Down (1993), The American President (1995), The Game (1997), Traffic (2000), and Wonder Boys (2000). In 2013, for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Douglas starred as an ageing acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best ctor—television series musical or omedy. He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Ant-Man (2015). Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism. He sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, is an honorary board member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund, and he was appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998. He has been married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-09-25
Place of Birth
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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Cast
The War of the Roses
19896.9 / 10
Basic Instinct
19926.9 / 10
A Call to Arms
20096.0 / 10
The China Syndrome
19797.2 / 10
One Night at McCool's
20015.9 / 10
Downwind
20237.0 / 10
You, Me and Dupree
20065.6 / 10
A Chorus Line
19856.2 / 10
The Ghost and the Darkness
19966.8 / 10
The Jewel of the Nile
19856.2 / 10
Traffic
20007.1 / 10
A Perfect Murder
19986.5 / 10
Wall Street
19877.2 / 10
The Game
19977.6 / 10
Black Rain
19896.6 / 10
Fatal Attraction
19876.8 / 10
Wonder Boys
20006.8 / 10
The In-Laws
20035.6 / 10
Coma
19786.7 / 10
King of California
20076.4 / 10
The Sentinel
20066.1 / 10
It Runs in the Family
20036.0 / 10
Shining Through
19926.5 / 10
Don't Say a Word
20016.2 / 10
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
20095.7 / 10
Disclosure
19946.2 / 10
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
20096.0 / 10
The American President
19956.5 / 10
The Star Chamber
19836.0 / 10
Romancing the Stone
19846.8 / 10
One Day in September
19997.3 / 10
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
20106.1 / 10
Dinosaurs Alive
20075.4 / 10
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
19766.0 / 10
Solitary Man
20095.9 / 10
Napoleon and Samantha
19726.1 / 10
Trumbo
20076.7 / 10
Falling Down
19937.4 / 10
Get Bruce!
19996.2 / 10
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
20056.4 / 10
Haywire
20115.7 / 10
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
20238.3 / 10
When Michael Calls
19725.5 / 10
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
20056.6 / 10
Summertree
19715.7 / 10
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
20127.5 / 10
Adam at Six A.M.
19704.7 / 10
Running
19796.6 / 10
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
20006.5 / 10
Behind the Candelabra
20136.6 / 10
Last Vegas
20136.4 / 10
It's My Turn
19805.6 / 10
Direct Order
20036.0 / 10
The Streets of San Francisco
19728.0 / 10
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
20137.5 / 10
And So It Goes
20146.0 / 10
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
20137.1 / 10
Beyond the Reach
20145.9 / 10
Hollywood Banker
20146.8 / 10
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
20144.8 / 10
Blood Knot
TBA0.0 / 10
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
20100.0 / 10
Hassles and Hangups
19730.0 / 10
Close Up
20129.0 / 10
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
20197.0 / 10
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
20050.0 / 10
America's Burning
20240.0 / 10
Ant-Man
20157.1 / 10
If Dolphins Could Talk
199010.0 / 10
Declaration of Independence
200310.0 / 10
The Streets of the Invisibles
20110.0 / 10
The Earth Day Special
19907.6 / 10
Once upon a time on Wall Street
20176.0 / 10
Hail, Hero!
19696.0 / 10
Unlocked
20176.2 / 10
Ant-Man and the Wasp
20186.9 / 10
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
20216.8 / 10
The Day After Peace
20094.0 / 10
Ken San
20166.0 / 10
Completely Cuckoo
19977.5 / 10
Black Rain: Making The Film
20067.3 / 10
Cast a Giant Shadow
19666.3 / 10
Animal World
20187.0 / 10
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
20096.6 / 10
Tell Them Who You Are
20045.8 / 10
14 Actors Acting
20107.0 / 10
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
20176.2 / 10
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
20195.3 / 10
Forever Hollywood
19998.0 / 10
And the Oscar Goes To...
20147.0 / 10
It Takes a Lunatic
20195.3 / 10
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
20236.3 / 10
Electric Blue 29
19880.0 / 10
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
20046.0 / 10
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
20048.0 / 10
Avengers: Endgame
20198.2 / 10
Forman vs. Forman
20197.8 / 10
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
20205.0 / 10
In Search of Peace
20016.5 / 10
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
20203.8 / 10
Deauville et le rêve américain
20200.0 / 10
cascadeurs de stars
19880.0 / 10
Fog City Mavericks
20078.5 / 10
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
20090.0 / 10
The Directors: Milos Forman
20000.0 / 10
Crew
The China Syndrome
19797.2 / 10
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19758.4 / 10
The Jewel of the Nile
19856.2 / 10
One Night at McCool's
20015.9 / 10
The Sentinel
20066.1 / 10
The Rainmaker
19977.0 / 10
Made in America
19935.5 / 10
Romancing the Stone
19846.8 / 10
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
20176.2 / 10
The Ghost and the Darkness
19966.8 / 10
Beyond the Reach
20145.9 / 10
Radio Flyer
19927.0 / 10
It Runs in the Family
20036.0 / 10
Flatliners
19906.5 / 10
Double Impact
19916.2 / 10
Face/Off
19977.0 / 10
America's Burning
20240.0 / 10
Eyes of an Angel
19916.9 / 10
Stone Cold
19916.1 / 10
Running
19796.6 / 10
Starman
19846.9 / 10
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
20195.5 / 10
Earthquake Bird
20195.9 / 10
Flatliners
20175.6 / 10