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.

Known For

Oliver Rose

The War of the Roses

Detective Nick Curran

Basic Instinct

Self (voice)

A Call to Arms

Richard Adams

The China Syndrome

Mr. Burmeister

One Night at McCool's

Downwind

Mr. Thompson

You, Me and Dupree

Zach

A Chorus Line

Charles Remington

The Ghost and the Darkness

Jack T. Colton

The Jewel of the Nile

Robert Wakefield

Traffic

Steven Taylor

A Perfect Murder

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

Nicholas Van Orton

The Game

Nick Conklin

Black Rain

Grady Tripp

Wonder Boys

Dan Gallagher

Fatal Attraction

Steve Tobias

The In-Laws

Dr. Mark Bellows

Coma

Charlie

King of California

Pete Garrison

The Sentinel

Alex Gromberg

It Runs in the Family

Ed Leland

Shining Through

Dr. Nathan Conrad

Don't Say a Word

Mark Hunter

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Tom Sanders

Disclosure

Uncle Wayne

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Andrew Shepherd

The American President

Steven Hardin

The Star Chamber

Jack T. Colton

Romancing the Stone

Self - Narrator (voice)

One Day in September

Self

The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Narrator

Dinosaurs Alive

Self

TVTV Looks at the Oscars

Ben Kalmen

Solitary Man

Danny Arlington Williams III

Napoleon and Samantha

Self

Trumbo

D-Fens

Falling Down

Self

Get Bruce!

Self

A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Alex Coblenz

Haywire

Self - Actor

Michael Douglas, le fils prodige

Self - Dr. Hank Pym

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Craig

When Michael Calls

Self

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

Jerry

Summertree

(archive footage)

Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim

Adam Gaines

Adam at Six A.M.

Michael Andropolis

Running

Self

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

Liberace

Behind the Candelabra

Billy Gerson

Last Vegas

Ben Lewin

It's My Turn

Narrator

Direct Order

Steven Keller

The Streets of San Francisco

Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

Oren Little

And So It Goes

Self

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

Madec

Beyond the Reach

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Banker

Self

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Looking Through Water

Self

Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

Narrator

Hassles and Hangups

Self (archive footage)

Close Up

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes

Self

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Self - Narrator (voice)

America's Burning

Dr. Hank Pym

Ant-Man

Host

If Dolphins Could Talk

Self

Declaration of Independence

Steve Keller (voice)

The Streets of the Invisibles

Self

The Earth Day Special

Self

Il était une fois... « Wall Street »

Carl Dixon

Hail, Hero!

Eric Lasch

Unlocked

Dr. Hank Pym

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Gordon Gekko (archive footage)

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Self

The Day After Peace

Self

健さん

Self

Completely Cuckoo

Self

Black Rain: Making The Film

Jeep Driver (uncredited)

Cast a Giant Shadow

Anderson

动物世界

Il était une fois… Vol au dessus d'un nid de coucou

Self

Miloš Forman: Co tě nezabije…

Self

Tell Them Who You Are

Self

14 Actors Acting

Self - Actor

Kirk Douglas, l'indompté

Self

Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

Self

Forever Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self

It Takes a Lunatic

Dr. Hank Pym

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

(archive footage)

Electric Blue 29

Self

The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

Self

The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

Guest

Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival

Hank Pym

Avengers: Endgame

Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)

Forman vs. Forman

Self

Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood

Narrator (voice)

In Search of Peace

Self

Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

Self

Deauville et le rêve américain

Self

cascadeurs de stars

Self

Fog City Mavericks

Self

Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Self

The Directors: Milos Forman

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

109

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-09-25

Place of Birth

New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As

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