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Michael Douglas

Acting

🎂 1944-09-25

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.

Cast credits(170)

Self

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Self

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Self - Guest

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Self - Guest

1988

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1981

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1961

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1992

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1975

Self

1948

Self - Presenter

1944

Self - Nominee

1944

Self - Audience Member

1944

Self - Winner

1944

Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award

1944

Guy-Am-I (voice)

2019

Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)

2021

Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)

2021

Jerry Williams

1965

Self

2014

Self

2011

Self - Host

1975

Self - Presenter

1956

Self

2003

2012

Detective Gavin Hatch

1998

Self

1991

Steve Keller

1972

Self

1953

Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021

Self

2020

Self

2010

Benjamin Franklin

2024

Self

2002

Sandy Kominsky

2018

Hank Pym (archive footage)

2012

Self - Presenter

1975

1977

Self

1998

Hank Pym

2019

Self

1997

Self

1981

Dr. Hank Pym

2023

Self

1984

Self - Laudatio

1984

Narrator

2018

Self (archive footage)

2022

Detective Nick Curran

1992

Dr. Hank Pym

2015

Dr. Hank Pym

2018

Narrator (voice)

2016

Nicholas Van Orton

1997

1966

D-Fens

1993

Self

1994

Robert Wakefield

2000

Dan Gallagher

1987

Gordon Gekko

2010

Charles Remington

1996

Gordon Gekko

1987

Jack T. Colton

1984

Steven Taylor

1998

Billy Gerson

2013

Eric Lasch

2017

Jack T. Colton

1985

Pete Garrison

2006

Alex Coblenz

2011

Oliver Rose

1989

Nick Conklin

1989

Madec

2014

Tom Sanders

1994

Uncle Wayne

2009

Andrew Shepherd

1995

Grady Tripp

2000

Mr. Thompson

2006

Gordon Gekko (archive footage)

2021

Dr. Nathan Conrad

2001

Liberace

2013

Ed Leland

1992

Dr. Mark Bellows

1978

Oren Little

2014

Self

2003

Anderson

2018

Richard Adams

1979

Zach

1985

Mark Hunter

2009

Charlie

2007

Jeep Driver (uncredited)

1966

Steve Tobias

2003

Self

1990

Self (archive footage)

2014

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2012

Ben Kalmen

2009

Steven Hardin

1983

Craig

1972

Mr. Burmeister

2001

Alex Gromberg

2003

Self - Dr. Hank Pym

2023

Self

2005

Ben Lewin

1980

Self

1999

Danny Arlington Williams III

1972

Self

2016

2011

Self (archive footage)

2014

Self

2007

Narrator

2007

Self (archive footage)

2012

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1988

Michael Andropolis

1979

Self

2010

Self - Actor

2017

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2019

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2004

Self - Narrator (voice)

1999

Self

2019

Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

2013

2023

Self

2009

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1976

Jerry

1971

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2004

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2005

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1997

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2004

Narrator (voice)

2001

Self

2007

Carl Dixon

1969

Self

2013

Self

2005

Self

2017

Self

1988

Self

1999

Adam Gaines

1970

Self - Narrator (voice)

2024

Self

2014

Self

1988

Self - Actor (archive footage)

2019

Steven Keller

1972

Self

2020

Self

2000

Self (voice)

2009

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2003

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2009

Self

2000

Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)

2019

Self - Actor

2023

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2020

Self

2009

Steve Keller (voice)

2011

Self

2020

Narrator

2003

Host

1990

Self

2006

Narrator

1973

Guest

2018

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2010

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Directing (2)

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