1944-09-25 New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is a retired 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. In July 2025, Douglas said that he was largely retired from acting, saying "I realized I had to stop [...] I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set". He added that while he was attached to one additional project and did not fully rule out future projects "if something special came up", he had no plans to work regularly again.
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Looking Through Water | William | 2025-09-05 |
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America's Burning | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2024-06-09 |
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Self - Dr. Hank Pym | 2023-07-19 |
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Downwind | 2023-01-20 | |
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Michael Douglas, le fils prodige | Self - Actor | 2023-05-14 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Dr. Hank Pym | 2023-02-15 |
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy | Gordon Gekko (archive footage) | 2021-01-11 |
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Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood | Self | 2020-11-19 |
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Deauville et le rêve américain | Self | 2020-09-05 |
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Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone | Self | 2020-12-15 |
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Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Hank Pym | 2019-04-24 |
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Forman vs. Forman | Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage) | 2019-07-16 |
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It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019-05-03 |
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Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate | Self | 2019-05-14 |
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动物世界 | Anderson | 2018-06-29 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Hank Pym | 2018-07-04 |
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Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival | Guest | 2018-04-03 |
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Il était une fois... « Wall Street » | Self | 2017-11-05 |
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Kirk Douglas, l'indompté | Self - Actor | 2017-06-01 |
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Unlocked | Eric Lasch | 2017-04-27 |
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健さん | Self | 2016-08-20 |
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Ant-Man | Dr. Hank Pym | 2015-07-14 |
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And So It Goes | Oren Little | 2014-07-10 |
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Beyond the Reach | Madec | 2014-09-06 |
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Hollywood Banker | Self (archive footage) | 2014-10-02 |
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
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The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | 2013-10-18 |
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Last Vegas | Billy Gerson | 2013-10-31 |
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Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | Self | 2013-09-07 |
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Behind the Candelabra | Liberace | 2013-05-26 |
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
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Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
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The Streets of the Invisibles | Steve Keller (voice) | 2011-10-03 |
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Haywire | Alex Coblenz | 2011-11-01 |
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Il était une fois… Vol au dessus d'un nid de coucou | 2011-06-27 | |
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Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? | Self | 2010-09-28 |
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Gordon Gekko | 2010-09-20 |
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A Call to Arms | Self (voice) | 2009-03-13 |
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Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Self | 2009-02-16 |
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Uncle Wayne | 2009-05-01 |
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The Day After Peace | Self | 2009-04-01 |
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Mark Hunter | 2009-02-05 |
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Solitary Man | Ben Kalmen | 2009-09-07 |
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Miloš Forman: Co tě nezabije… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
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Fog City Mavericks | Self | 2007-10-24 |
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King of California | Charlie | 2007-01-24 |
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Dinosaurs Alive | Narrator | 2007-03-30 |
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Trumbo | Self | 2007-09-10 |
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You, Me and Dupree | Mr. Thompson | 2006-07-13 |
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Black Rain: Making The Film | Self | 2006-10-10 |
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The Sentinel | Pete Garrison | 2006-04-19 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2005-03-01 |
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A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Self | 2005-09-02 |
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Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Self | 2005-09-13 |
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The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy | Self | 2004-10-26 |
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The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent | Self | 2004-10-26 |
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Tell Them Who You Are | Self | 2004-09-06 |
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It Runs in the Family | Alex Gromberg | 2003-04-25 |
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The In-Laws | Steve Tobias | 2003-05-23 |
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Direct Order | Narrator | 2003-04-01 |
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Declaration of Independence | Self | 2003-06-10 |
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One Night at McCool's | Mr. Burmeister | 2001-04-19 |
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Don't Say a Word | Dr. Nathan Conrad | 2001-09-28 |
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In Search of Peace | Narrator (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
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Traffic | Robert Wakefield | 2000-12-27 |
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Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp | 2000-02-22 |
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The Directors: Milos Forman | Self | 2000-08-01 |
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Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' | Self | 2000-12-19 |
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Get Bruce! | Self | 1999-01-01 |
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One Day in September | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1999-10-22 |
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Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
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A Perfect Murder | Steven Taylor | 1998-06-05 |
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Completely Cuckoo | Self | 1997-12-16 |
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The Game | Nicholas Van Orton | 1997-09-12 |
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The Ghost and the Darkness | Charles Remington | 1996-10-11 |
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The American President | Andrew Shepherd | 1995-11-17 |
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Disclosure | Tom Sanders | 1994-12-09 |
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Falling Down | D-Fens | 1993-02-26 |
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Basic Instinct | Detective Nick Curran | 1992-03-20 |
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Shining Through | Ed Leland | 1992-01-31 |
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If Dolphins Could Talk | Host | 1990-02-25 |
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The Earth Day Special | Self | 1990-04-22 |
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Black Rain | Nick Conklin | 1989-09-22 |
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The War of the Roses | Oliver Rose | 1989-12-08 |
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cascadeurs de stars | Self | 1988-03-18 |
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The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen | Self | 1988-01-01 |
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Electric Blue 29 | (archive footage) | 1988-01-01 |
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Wall Street | Gordon Gekko | 1987-12-10 |
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Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher | 1987-09-18 |
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A Chorus Line | Zach | 1985-12-10 |
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The Jewel of the Nile | Jack T. Colton | 1985-08-01 |
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Romancing the Stone | Jack T. Colton | 1984-03-30 |
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The Star Chamber | Steven Hardin | 1983-08-05 |
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It's My Turn | Ben Lewin | 1980-10-24 |
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The China Syndrome | Richard Adams | 1979-03-16 |
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Running | Michael Andropolis | 1979-10-30 |
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Coma | Dr. Mark Bellows | 1978-01-06 |
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 |
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Hassles and Hangups | Narrator | 1973-01-01 |
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When Michael Calls | Craig | 1972-02-05 |
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The Streets of San Francisco | Steven Keller | 1972-09-16 |
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Napoleon and Samantha | Danny Arlington Williams III | 1972-07-05 |
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Summertree | Jerry | 1971-06-06 |
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Adam at Six A.M. | Adam Gaines | 1970-09-22 |
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Hail, Hero! | Carl Dixon | 1969-10-04 |
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Cast a Giant Shadow | Jeep Driver (uncredited) | 1966-03-30 |
