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.
Movie | Downwind | Unknown | 2023-01-20 |
Movie | The God Four | Coach Channing | 2023 |
Movie | Deauville et le rêve américain | Self | 2020-09-05 |
Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Dr. Hank Pym | 2019-04-24 |
Movie | Sword-and-Sandal | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
Movie | It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019-05-03 |
Movie | Animal World | Anderson | 2018-06-29 |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Hank Pym | 2018-07-04 |
Movie | Unlocked | Eric Lasch | 2017-04-27 |
Movie | The Untameable Kirk Douglas | Self - Actor | 2017-06-01 |
Movie | Ken San | Self | 2016-08-20 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special | Himself | 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 |
Movie | Making of an Ant-Sized Heist: A How-To Guide | Himself | 2015-12-08 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | And So It Goes | Oren Little | 2014-07-17 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
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 |
Movie | Haywire | Alex Coblenz | 2011-11-01 |
Series | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self | 2011-09-03 |
Movie | The Streets of the Invisibles | Steve Keller (voice) | 2011-10-03 |
Movie | My Last Five Girlfriends | No. 3 - Shoe Expert | 2010-03-19 |
Movie | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Gordon Gekko | 2010-09-20 |
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 | Miloš Forman - What Doesn't Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
Movie | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Uncle Wayne | 2009-05-01 |
Movie | Solitary Man | Ben Kalmen | 2009-09-07 |
Movie | King of California | Charlie | 2007-01-24 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Fog City Mavericks | Self | 2007-10-24 |
Movie | Dinosaurs Alive | Narrator | 2007-03-30 |
Movie | Trumbo | Self | 2007-09-10 |
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 | 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 | Tell Them Who You Are | Self | 2004-09-06 |
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 |
Series | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | 2003-06-04 |
Movie | The In-Laws | Steve Tobias | 2003-05-23 |
Movie | Declaration of Independence | Self | 2003-06-10 |
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 | Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp | 2000-02-22 |
Movie | Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' | Self | 2000-12-19 |
Movie | Traffic | Self - Guest | 2000-12-27 |
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 |
Movie | A Perfect Murder | Steven Taylor | 1998-06-05 |
Series | Will & Grace | Detective Gavin Hatch | 1998-09-21 |
Movie | Completely Cuckoo | Himself | 1997-12-16 |
Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | The Game | Nicholas Van Orton | 1997-09-12 |
Movie | The Ghost and the Darkness | Charles Remington | 1996-10-11 |
Movie | The American President | Andrew Shepherd | 1995-11-17 |
Movie | Disclosure | Tom Sanders | 1994-12-09 |
Movie | Falling Down | D-Fens | 1993-02-26 |
Movie | Shining Through | Ed Leland | 1992-01-31 |
Movie | Basic Instinct | Det. Nick Curran | 1992-03-20 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
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 | The War of the Roses | Oliver Rose | 1989-12-08 |
Movie | Black Rain | Nick Conklin | 1989-09-22 |
Movie | Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher | 1987-09-18 |
Movie | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko | 1987-12-10 |
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 | Entertainment Tonight | Self | 1981-09-15 |
Series | Wetten, dass..? | Self | 1981-02-14 |
Movie | It's My Turn | Ben Lewin | 1980-10-24 |
Movie | Running | Michael Andropolis | 1979-10-30 |
Movie | Coma | Dr. Mark Bellows | 1978-01-06 |
Movie | TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Self | 1975-10-11 |
Movie | Napoleon and Samantha | Danny Arlington Williams III | 1972-07-05 |
Movie | When Michael Calls | Craig | 1972-02-05 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Steve Keller | 1972-09-23 |
Movie | Summertree | Jerry | 1971-06-06 |
Movie | Adam at Six A.M. | Adam Gaines | 1970-09-22 |
Movie | Hail, Hero! | Carl Dixon | 1969-10-04 |
Movie | Cast a Giant Shadow | Jeep Driver (uncredited) | 1966-03-30 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Jerry Williams | 1965-09-19 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 1962-10-01 |
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