1944-09-25 ( 80 years old ) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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.
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Movies
America's Burning
2024-06-09
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
2023-05-14
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023-02-15
Downwind
2023-01-20
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021-01-11
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
2020-12-15
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
2020-11-19
Deauville et le rêve américain
2020-09-05
Forman vs. Forman
2019-07-16
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
2019-05-14
It Takes a Lunatic
2019-05-03
Avengers: Endgame
2019-04-24
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018-07-04
Animal World
2018-06-29
Once upon a time on Wall Street
2017-11-05
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017-06-01
Unlocked
2017-04-27
Ken San
2016-08-20
Ant-Man
2015-07-14
Hollywood Banker
2014-10-02
Beyond the Reach
2014-09-06
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014-08-25
And So It Goes
2014-07-10
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Last Vegas
2013-10-31
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
2013-10-18
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013-09-07
Behind the Candelabra
2013-05-26
Close Up
2012-09-30
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012-02-04
Haywire
2011-11-01
The Streets of the Invisibles
2011-10-03
14 Actors Acting
2010-12-08
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
2010-09-28
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010-09-20
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009-10-08
Solitary Man
2009-09-07
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009-05-01
The Day After Peace
2009-04-01
A Call to Arms
2009-03-13
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009-02-16
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009-02-05
Fog City Mavericks
2007-10-24
Trumbo
2007-09-10
Dinosaurs Alive
2007-03-30
King of California
2007-01-24
Black Rain: Making The Film
2006-10-10
You, Me and Dupree
2006-07-13
The Sentinel
2006-04-19
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005-09-13
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005-03-01
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004-10-26
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004-10-26
Tell Them Who You Are
2004-09-06
Declaration of Independence
2003-06-10
The In-Laws
2003-05-23
It Runs in the Family
2003-04-25
Direct Order
2003-04-01
Don't Say a Word
2001-09-28
In Search of Peace
2001-09-21
One Night at McCool's
2001-04-19
Traffic
2000-12-27
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000-12-19
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000-08-01
Wonder Boys
2000-02-22
One Day in September
1999-10-22
Get Bruce!
1999-01-01
Forever Hollywood
1999-01-01
A Perfect Murder
1998-06-05
Completely Cuckoo
1997-12-16
The Game
1997-09-12
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996-10-11
The American President
1995-11-17
Disclosure
1994-12-09
Falling Down
1993-02-26
Basic Instinct
1992-03-20
Shining Through
1992-01-31
The Earth Day Special
1990-04-22
If Dolphins Could Talk
1990-02-25
The War of the Roses
1989-12-08
Black Rain
1989-09-22
cascadeurs de stars
1988-03-18
Electric Blue 29
1988-01-01
Wall Street
1987-12-10
Fatal Attraction
1987-09-18
A Chorus Line
1985-12-10
The Jewel of the Nile
1985-08-01
Romancing the Stone
1984-03-30
The Star Chamber
1983-08-05
It's My Turn
1980-10-24
Running
1979-10-30
The China Syndrome
1979-03-16
Coma
1978-01-06
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976-03-30
Hassles and Hangups
1973-01-01
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-09-16
Napoleon and Samantha
1972-07-05
When Michael Calls
1972-02-05
Summertree
1971-06-06
Adam at Six A.M.
1970-09-22
Hail, Hero!
1969-10-04
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966-03-30
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