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 | 2025-09-03 |
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I Am Curious Johnny | Self | 2025-10-17 |
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America's Burning | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2024-06-09 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Dr. Hank Pym | 2023-02-15 |
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Michael Douglas, le fils prodige | Self - Actor | 2023-05-14 |
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Downwind | 2023-01-20 | |
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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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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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Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone | Self | 2020-12-15 |
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Deauville et le rêve américain | Self | 2020-09-05 |
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It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019-05-03 |
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Forman vs. Forman | Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage) | 2019-07-16 |
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Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
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Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate | Self | 2019-05-14 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Hank Pym | 2019-04-24 |
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Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival | Guest | 2018-04-03 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Hank Pym | 2018-07-04 |
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动物世界 | Anderson | 2018-06-29 |
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Unlocked | Eric Lasch | 2017-04-27 |
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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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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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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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Last Vegas | Billy Gerson | 2013-10-31 |
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Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
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Il était une fois… Vol au dessus d'un nid de coucou | Self | 2011-06-27 |
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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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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Gordon Gekko | 2010-09-20 |
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Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? | Self | 2010-09-28 |
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Mark Hunter | 2009-02-05 |
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Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Self | 2009-02-16 |
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The Day After Peace | Self | 2009-04-01 |
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Solitary Man | Ben Kalmen | 2009-09-07 |
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A Call to Arms | Self (voice) | 2009-03-13 |
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Miloš Forman: Co tě nezabije… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Uncle Wayne | 2009-05-01 |
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King of California | Charlie | 2007-01-24 |
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Fog City Mavericks | Self | 2007-10-24 |
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Trumbo | Self | 2007-09-10 |
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Dinosaurs Alive | Narrator | 2007-03-30 |
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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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You, Me and Dupree | Mr. Thompson | 2006-07-13 |
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Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Self | 2005-09-13 |
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A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Self | 2005-09-02 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2005-03-01 |
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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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The In-Laws | Steve Tobias | 2003-05-23 |
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It Runs in the Family | Alex Gromberg | 2003-04-25 |
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Declaration of Independence | Self | 2003-06-10 |
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Direct Order | Narrator | 2003-04-01 |
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In Search of Peace | Narrator (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
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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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Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' | Self | 2000-12-19 |
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Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp | 2000-02-22 |
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Traffic | Robert Wakefield | 2000-12-27 |
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The Directors: Milos Forman | Self | 2000-08-01 |
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One Day in September | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1999-10-22 |
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Get Bruce! | Self | 1999-01-01 |
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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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The Game | Nicholas Van Orton | 1997-09-12 |
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Completely Cuckoo | Self | 1997-12-16 |
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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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Shining Through | Ed Leland | 1992-01-31 |
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Basic Instinct | Detective Nick Curran | 1992-03-20 |
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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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When Michael Calls | Craig | 1989-12-12 |
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The War of the Roses | Oliver Rose | 1989-12-08 |
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Black Rain | Nick Conklin | 1989-09-22 |
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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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cascadeurs de stars | Self | 1988-03-18 |
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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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The Jewel of the Nile | Jack T. Colton | 1985-08-01 |
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A Chorus Line | Zach | 1985-12-10 |
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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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Running | Michael Andropolis | 1979-10-30 |
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The China Syndrome | Richard Adams | 1979-03-16 |
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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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Napoleon and Samantha | Danny Arlington Williams III | 1972-07-05 |
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The Streets of San Francisco | Steven Keller | 1972-09-16 |
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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 |
