Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
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 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.
Known For
Actor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Benjamin Franklin
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
as Self - Actor
as Dr. Hank Pym
as Self (archive footage)
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
as Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
as Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
as Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
as Self
as Hank Pym
as Self (archive footage)
as Guy-Am-I (voice)
as Self
as Dr. Hank Pym
as Anderson
as Sandy Kominsky
as Narrator
as Self
as Self - Actor
as Eric Lasch
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Dr. Hank Pym
as Self - Guest
as Self (archive footage)
as Madec
as Oren Little
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Billy Gerson
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
as Liberace
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Hank Pym (archive footage)
as Alex Coblenz
as Steve Keller (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Gordon Gekko
as Self
as Ben Kalmen
as Uncle Wayne
as Self
as Self (voice)
as Mark Hunter
as Self
as Self
as Narrator
as Charlie
as Self
as Self
as Mr. Thompson
as Pete Garrison
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Steve Tobias
as Alex Gromberg
as Narrator
as Self
as Self
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
as Narrator (voice)
as Mr. Burmeister
as Robert Wakefield
as Grady Tripp
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Steven Taylor
as Detective Gavin Hatch
as Self
as Himself
as Nicholas Van Orton
as Self
as Self
as Charles Remington
as Andrew Shepherd
as Tom Sanders
as Self
as D-Fens
as Det. Nick Curran
as Ed Leland
as Self
as Self
as Host
as Oliver Rose
as Nick Conklin
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self - Guest
as Gordon Gekko
as Dan Gallagher
as Zach
as Jack T. Colton
as Jack T. Colton
as Steven Hardin
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Ben Lewin
as Michael Andropolis
as Richard Adams
as Dr. Mark Bellows
as Self
as Self - Host
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Narrator
as Steven Keller
as Danny Arlington Williams III
as Craig
as Steve Keller
as Jerry
as Adam Gaines
as Carl Dixon
as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
as Self
as Self - Laudatio
as Jerry Williams
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self
as Self
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Co-Producer
as Executive Producer
as Co-Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
Crew
as Thanks
as Thanks
Director
as Director
as Director