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Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas

1944-09-25 / New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

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.

Appearances

Inside the Actors Studio
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
The F.B.I.
The F.B.I. (1965)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
The View
The View (1997)
The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002)
Will & Grace
Will & Grace (1998)
Celebrities Uncensored
Celebrities Uncensored (2003)
This Is Your Life
This Is Your Life (1952)
CBS Playhouse
CBS Playhouse (1966)
Pebble Mill
Pebble Mill (1991)
The Hollywood Greats
The Hollywood Greats (1977)
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
The Oscars
The Oscars (1953)
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (1975)
What If...?
What If...? (2021)
Marvel Studios Legends
Marvel Studios Legends (2021)
Wetten, dass..?
Wetten, dass..? (1981)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Franklin
Franklin (2024)
GRAND PRIX Driver
GRAND PRIX Driver (2018)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
People's Choice Awards
People's Choice Awards (1975)
Leute heute
Leute heute (1997)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
The Kominsky Method
The Kominsky Method (2018)
America: The Story of Us
America: The Story of Us (2010)
Honest Trailers
Honest Trailers (2012)
Green Eggs and Ham
Green Eggs and Ham (2019)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1984)
BAMBI Awards
BAMBI Awards (1948)
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight (1981)
The Magic Hour
The Magic Hour (1998)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022)
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Ocean Vet
Ocean Vet (2016)
Visible: Out on Television
Visible: Out on Television (2020)
Beckmann
Beckmann (1999)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Tony Awards
Tony Awards (1956)
Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots (2012)
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards (1944)
Real Time with Bill Maher
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)