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 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · America's Burning as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Franklin as Benjamin Franklin
- 2023 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
- 2023 · Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son as Self - Actor
- 2023 · Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Dr. Hank Pym
- 2023 · Downwind as
- 2022 · Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · What If...? as Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
- 2021 · What If...? as Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
- 2021 · Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Legends as Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 · Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone as Self
- 2020 · Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood as Self
- 2020 · Deauville et le rêve américain as Self
- 2020 · Visible: Out on Television as Self
- 2019 · Green Eggs and Ham as Guy-Am-I (voice)
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Forman vs. Forman as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
- 2019 · Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate as Self
- 2019 · It Takes a Lunatic as Self
- 2019 · Avengers: Endgame as Hank Pym
- 2019 · Sword-and-Sandal as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · The Kominsky Method as Sandy Kominsky
- 2018 · Ant-Man and the Wasp as Dr. Hank Pym
- 2018 · Animal World as Anderson
- 2018 · Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival as Guest
- 2018 · GRAND PRIX Driver as Narrator
- 2017 · Once upon a time on Wall Street as Self
- 2017 · The Untameable Kirk Douglas as Self - Actor
- 2017 · Unlocked as Eric Lasch
- 2016 · Ocean Vet as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Ken San as Self
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Ant-Man as Dr. Hank Pym
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Hollywood Banker as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · Beyond the Reach as Madec
- 2014 · Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film as Self
- 2014 · And So It Goes as Oren Little
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Last Vegas as Billy Gerson
- 2013 · The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 2013 · Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon as Self
- 2013 · Behind the Candelabra as Liberace
- 2012 · Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Hank Pym (archive footage)
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · Haywire as Alex Coblenz
- 2011 · The Streets of the Invisibles as Steve Keller (voice)
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as
- 2010 · 14 Actors Acting as Self
- 2010 · Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? as Self
- 2010 · Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Gordon Gekko
- 2010 · America: The Story of Us as Self
- 2009 · Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 2009 · Solitary Man as Ben Kalmen
- 2009 · Ghosts of Girlfriends Past as Uncle Wayne
- 2009 · The Day After Peace as Self
- 2009 · A Call to Arms as Self (voice)
- 2009 · Beyond a Reasonable Doubt as Mark Hunter
- 2007 · Fog City Mavericks as Self
- 2007 · Trumbo as Self
- 2007 · Dinosaurs Alive as Narrator
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · King of California as Charlie
- 2006 · Black Rain: Making The Film as Self
- 2006 · You, Me and Dupree as Mr. Thompson
- 2006 · The Sentinel as Pete Garrison
- 2005 · Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema as Self
- 2005 · A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Self
- 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy as Self
- 2004 · The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent as Self
- 2004 · Tell Them Who You Are as Self
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Declaration of Independence as Self
- 2003 · The In-Laws as Steve Tobias
- 2003 · It Runs in the Family as Alex Gromberg
- 2003 · Direct Order as Narrator
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2002 · Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as Self
- 2001 · Don't Say a Word as Dr. Nathan Conrad
- 2001 · One Night at McCool's as Mr. Burmeister
- 2000 · Traffic as Robert Wakefield
- 2000 · Wonder Boys as Grady Tripp
- 1999 · One Day in September as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Beckmann as Self
- 1999 · Get Bruce! as Self
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Detective Gavin Hatch
- 1998 · The Magic Hour as Self
- 1998 · A Perfect Murder as Steven Taylor
- 1997 · The Game as Nicholas Van Orton
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1996 · The Ghost and the Darkness as Charles Remington
- 1995 · The American President as Andrew Shepherd
- 1994 · Disclosure as Tom Sanders
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Falling Down as D-Fens
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1992 · Basic Instinct as Detective Nick Curran
- 1992 · Shining Through as Ed Leland
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1990 · The Earth Day Special as Self
- 1989 · The War of the Roses as Oliver Rose
- 1989 · Black Rain as Nick Conklin
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1988 · cascadeurs de stars as Self
- 1987 · Wall Street as Gordon Gekko
- 1987 · Fatal Attraction as Dan Gallagher
- 1985 · A Chorus Line as Zach
- 1985 · The Jewel of the Nile as Jack T. Colton
- 1984 · Romancing the Stone as Jack T. Colton
- 1983 · The Star Chamber as Steven Hardin
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1980 · It's My Turn as Ben Lewin
- 1979 · The China Syndrome as Richard Adams
- 1978 · Coma as Dr. Mark Bellows
- 1977 · The Hollywood Greats as
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self
- 1975 · People's Choice Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as Steve Keller
- 1972 · Napoleon and Samantha as Danny Arlington Williams III
- 1972 · When Michael Calls as Craig
- 1969 · Hail, Hero! as Carl Dixon
- 1966 · CBS Playhouse as
- 1966 · Cast a Giant Shadow as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self - Laudatio
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Jerry Williams
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · This Is Your Life as Self
- 1948 · Bambi Awards as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- Future · Blood Knot as
- 2003 · Celebrities Uncensored as Self
- 2001 · In Search of Peace as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' as Self
- 1999 · Forever Hollywood as Self
- 1997 · Completely Cuckoo as Self
- 1990 · If Dolphins Could Talk as Host
- 1988 · The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen as Self
- 1988 · Electric Blue 29 as (archive footage)
- 1979 · Running as Michael Andropolis
- 1976 · TVTV Looks at the Oscars as Self
- 1973 · Hassles and Hangups as Narrator
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as Steven Keller
- 1971 · Summertree as Jerry
- 1970 · Adam at Six A.M. as Adam Gaines