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Michael Douglas

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 received 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. After leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred as the romantic lead. Douglas reprised this role in the sequel in 1985, The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced. He appeared in the musical A Chorus Line (1985) and the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction (1987). 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). His subsequent film roles included: Black Rain (1989); The War of the Roses (1989); Basic Instinct (1992); Falling Down (1993); The American President (1995); The Game (1997); Traffic and Wonder Boys (both 2000); Solitary Man (2009). 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 aging acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and in the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham, in which he voices Guy-Am-I. He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). He also voiced an alternate version of the character in the MCU animated television series What If...?. Besides his acting career, Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.


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Born:
Sep 25, 1944 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
158
First Appeared:
In the series Bambi Awards 1948-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Blood Knot 2025
Known For
Filmography
Movie Blood Knot Unknown 2025
Series Franklin Benjamin Franklin 2024-04-11
Movie Downwind Unknown 2023-01-20
Movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Dr. Hank Pym 2023-02-15
Movie Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son Self - Actor 2023-05-14
Movie Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Self - Dr. Hank Pym 2023-07-19
Series Il était une fois Champs-Élysées Self (archive footage) 2022-12-21
Series Marvel Studios Legends Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) 2021-01-08
Movie Polycephaly in D (archive footage) 2021-09-10
Series What If...? Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice) 2021-08-11
Series Visible: Out On Television Self 2020-02-14
Movie Deauville et le rêve américain Self 2020-09-05
Movie Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood Self 2020-11-19
Movie Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone Self 2020-12-15
Movie Sword-and-Sandal Self (archive footage) 2019-04-14
Movie It Takes a Lunatic Self 2019-05-03
Movie Avengers: Endgame Dr. Hank Pym 2019-04-24
Movie Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate Unknown 2019-05-14
Movie Forman vs. Forman Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage) 2019-07-16
Series Green Eggs and Ham Guy-Am-I (voice) 2019-11-08
Movie Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Film Festival Guest 2018-04-03
Series GRAND PRIX Driver Narrator 2018-02-08
Movie Animal World Anderson 2018-06-29
Series The Kominsky Method Sandy Kominsky 2018-11-16
Movie Ant-Man and the Wasp Dr. Hank Pym 2018-07-04
Movie Head Full of Honey Dr. Amandus Rosenbach 2018-11-30
Movie Unlocked Eric Lasch 2017-04-27
Movie The Untameable Kirk Douglas Self - Actor 2017-06-01
Movie Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry Himself 2016-03-11
Movie Ken San Self 2016-08-20
Series Ocean Vet Narrator (voice) 2016-12-14
Movie Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special Self 2015-02-15
Series The Late Late Show with James Corden Self - Guest 2015-03-23
Movie Ant-Man Dr. Hank Pym 2015-07-14
Series The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Self 2014-02-17
Series Late Night with Seth Meyers Self 2014-02-25
Movie And the Oscar Goes To... Self (archive footage) 2014-02-01
Movie And So It Goes Oren Little 2014-07-17
Series Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Self 2014-12-21
Movie Hollywood Banker Self (archive footage) 2014-10-02
Movie Beyond the Reach Madec 2014-09-06
Movie Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film Self 2014-08-25
Movie Behind the Candelabra Liberace 2013-05-26
Movie Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon Self 2013-09-07
Movie Last Vegas Billy Gerson 2013-10-31
Movie The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers Yitzhak Rabin (voice) 2013-10-18
Movie Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (archive footage) 2012-02-04
Movie Close Up Self (archive footage) 2012-09-30
Series Honest Trailers Hank Pym (archive footage) 2012-02-13
Movie Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Unknown 2011-06-27
Series The Jonathan Ross Show Self 2011-09-03
Movie The Streets of the Invisibles Steve Keller (voice) 2011-10-03
Movie Haywire Alex Coblenz 2011-11-01
Series America: The Story of Us Michael Douglas 2010-04-25
Movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gordon Gekko 2010-09-20
Movie My Last Five Girlfriends No. 3 - Shoe Expert 2010-03-19
Movie Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? Self 2010-09-28
Movie 14 Actors Acting Self 2010-12-08
Movie A Call to Arms Self (voice) 2009-03-13
Movie Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Mark Hunter 2009-02-05
Movie The Day After Peace Self 2009-04-01
Movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Uncle Wayne 2009-05-01
Movie Solitary Man Ben Kalmen 2009-09-07
Movie Miloš Forman - What Doesn't Kill You… Self 2009-10-08
Series The Graham Norton Show Self 2007-02-22
Movie King of California Charlie 2007-01-24
Movie Dinosaurs Alive Narrator 2007-03-30
Movie Trumbo Self 2007-09-10
Movie Fog City Mavericks Himself 2007-10-24
Movie You, Me and Dupree Mr. Thompson 2006-07-13
Movie The Sentinel Pete Garrison 2006-04-19
Movie Black Rain: Making The Film Self 2006-10-10
Series The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Self 2005-01-03
Movie Nos Bastidores de Hollywood Self 2005-03-01
Movie A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Himself 2005-09-02
Movie Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema Self 2005-09-13
Movie The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy Self 2004-10-26
Movie Tell Them Who You Are Self 2004-09-06
Movie The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent Self 2004-10-26
Movie Direct Order Narrator 2003-04-01
Series Jimmy Kimmel Live! Unknown 2003-01-26
Movie It Runs in the Family Alex Gromberg 2003-04-25
Movie The In-Laws Steve Tobias 2003-05-23
Series The Ellen DeGeneres Show Self 2003-09-08
Movie Declaration of Independence Self 2003-06-10
Series Celebrities Uncensored Self 2003-06-04
Series Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Self 2002-06-08
Movie Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. Self 2002-11-26
Movie Don't Say a Word Dr. Nathan Conrad 2001-09-28
Movie One Night at McCool's Mr. Burmeister 2001-04-19
Movie In Search of Peace Narrator (voice) 2001-09-21
Movie Wonder Boys Grady Tripp 2000-02-22
Movie Traffic Self - Guest 2000-12-27
Movie Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' Self 2000-12-19
Movie Forever Hollywood Self 1999-01-01
Movie Get Bruce! Self 1999-01-01
Series Beckmann Self 1999-01-25
Movie One Day in September Himself - Narrator (voice) 1999-10-22
Series The Magic Hour Self 1998-06-08
Movie A Perfect Murder Steven Taylor 1998-06-05
Series Will & Grace Detective Gavin Hatch 1998-09-21
Series Leute heute Self 1997-07-23
Series The View Self 1997-08-11
Movie The Game Nicholas Van Orton 1997-09-12
Movie Completely Cuckoo Himself 1997-12-16
Movie The Ghost and the Darkness Charles Remington 1996-10-11
Movie The American President Andrew Shepherd 1995-11-17
Series Inside the Actors Studio Self 1994-08-14
Movie Disclosure Tom Sanders 1994-12-09
Movie Falling Down D-Fens 1993-02-26
Movie Shining Through Ed Leland 1992-01-31
Series The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Unknown 1992-05-25
Movie Basic Instinct Det. Nick Curran 1992-03-20
Series Pebble Mill Self 1991-10-14
Movie If Dolphins Could Talk Host 1990-02-25
Movie The Earth Day Special Self 1990-04-22
Movie Black Rain Nick Conklin 1989-09-22
Movie The War of the Roses Oliver Rose 1989-12-08
Movie Electric Blue 29 (archive footage) 1988-01-01
Movie The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen Self 1988-01-01
Movie cascadeurs de stars Michael Douglas 1988-03-18
Series LIVE with Kelly and Mark Self - Guest 1988-09-05
Movie Fatal Attraction Dan Gallagher 1987-09-18
Movie Wall Street Gordon Gekko 1987-12-10
Movie Wall Street Gordon Gekko 1987-12-11
Movie The Jewel of the Nile Jack T. Colton 1985-08-01
Movie A Chorus Line Zach 1985-12-10
Movie Romancing the Stone Jack T. Colton 1984-03-30
Movie The Star Chamber Steven Hardin 1983-08-05
Series Champs-Elysées Self 1982-01-16
Series Wetten, dass..? Self 1981-02-14
Movie It's My Turn Ben Lewin 1980-10-24
Movie The China Syndrome Richard Adams 1979-03-16
Movie Running Michael Andropolis 1979-10-30
Movie Coma Dr. Mark Bellows 1978-01-06
Series The Hollywood Greats Unknown 1977-08-04
Movie TVTV Looks at the Oscars Self 1976-03-30
Series Les Rendez-vous du dimanche Self 1975-01-12
Series Saturday Night Live Self 1975-10-11
Series People's Choice Awards Self - Presenter 1975-03-04
Movie Hassles and Hangups Narrator 1973-01-01
Movie When Michael Calls Craig 1972-02-05
Movie Napoleon and Samantha Danny Arlington Williams III 1972-07-05
Series The Streets of San Francisco Steve Keller 1972-09-23
Movie The Streets of San Francisco Steven Keller 1972-09-16
Movie Summertree Jerry 1971-06-06
Series NBC Nightly News Unknown 1970-08-03
Movie Adam at Six A.M. Adam Gaines 1970-09-22
Movie Hail, Hero! Carl Dixon 1969-10-04
Series Goldene Kamera Verleihung Self 1966-01-25
Movie Cast a Giant Shadow Jeep Driver (uncredited) 1966-03-30
Series CBS Playhouse Unknown 1966-12-08
Series The F.B.I. Jerry Williams 1965-09-19
Series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Self 1962-10-01
Series The Mike Douglas Show Self 1961-12-11
Series The Oscars Self 1953-03-19
Series This Is Your Life Self 1952-10-01
Series Bambi Awards Self 1948-01-01