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.
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Dr. Hank Pym | 2023-02-15 |
Movie | The God Four | Coach Channing | 2023 |
Movie | Downwind | Unknown | 2023-01-20 |
Movie | Deauville et le rêve américain | Self | 2020-09-05 |
Movie | Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood | Self | 2020-11-19 |
Movie | Sword-and-Sandal | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Hank Pym | 2019-04-24 |
Movie | Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate | Self | 2019-05-14 |
Movie | It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019-05-03 |
Movie | Animal World | Anderson | 2018-06-29 |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Hank Pym | 2018-07-04 |
Movie | The Untameable Kirk Douglas | Self - Actor | 2017-06-01 |
Movie | Unlocked | Eric Lasch | 2017-04-27 |
Movie | Once upon a time on Wall Street | Self | 2017-11-05 |
Movie | Ken San | Self | 2016-08-20 |
Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest | 2015-03-23 |
Movie | Ant-Man | Dr. Hank Pym | 2015-07-14 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | Making of an Ant-Sized Heist: A How-To Guide | Himself | 2015-12-08 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | Beyond the Reach | Madec | 2014-09-06 |
Movie | Hollywood Banker | Self (archive footage) | 2014-10-02 |
Movie | And So It Goes | Oren Little | 2014-07-17 |
Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
Movie | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace | 2013-05-26 |
Movie | Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | Self | 2013-09-07 |
Movie | The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | Last Vegas | Billy Gerson | 2013-10-31 |
Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
Series | Finding Your Roots | Unknown | 2012-03-24 |
Movie | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
Series | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self | 2011-09-03 |
Movie | The Streets of the Invisibles | Steve Keller (voice) | 2011-10-03 |
Movie | Haywire | Alex Coblenz | 2011-11-01 |
Movie | My Last Five Girlfriends | No. 3 - Shoe Expert | 2010-03-19 |
Movie | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Gordon Gekko | 2010-09-20 |
Movie | 14 Actors Acting | Self | 2010-12-08 |
Movie | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Mark Hunter | 2009-02-05 |
Movie | A Call to Arms | Self (voice) | 2009-03-13 |
Movie | The Day After Peace | Self | 2009-04-01 |
Movie | Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
Movie | Solitary Man | Ben Kalmen | 2009-09-07 |
Movie | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Uncle Wayne | 2009-05-01 |
Movie | King of California | Charlie | 2007-01-24 |
Movie | Dinosaurs Alive | Narrator | 2007-03-30 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Trumbo | Self | 2007-09-10 |
Movie | Fog City Mavericks | Self | 2007-10-24 |
Movie | The Sentinel | Pete Garrison | 2006-04-19 |
Movie | Black Rain: Making The Film | Self | 2006-10-10 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | 2005-01-03 |
Movie | A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Self | 2005-09-02 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Self | 2005-09-13 |
Movie | The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent | Self | 2004-10-26 |
Movie | Tell Them Who You Are | Self | 2004-09-06 |
Movie | The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy | Self | 2004-10-26 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Movie | It Runs in the Family | Alex Gromberg | 2003-04-25 |
Movie | Direct Order | Narrator | 2003-04-01 |
Movie | The In-Laws | Steve Tobias | 2003-05-23 |
Series | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | 2003-06-04 |
Movie | Declaration of Independence | Self | 2003-06-10 |
Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Self | 2002-06-08 |
Movie | Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. | Self | 2002-11-26 |
Movie | Don't Say a Word | Dr. Nathan Conrad | 2001-09-28 |
Movie | One Night at McCool's | Mr. Burmeister | 2001-04-19 |
Movie | Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' | Self | 2000-12-19 |
Movie | Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp | 2000-02-22 |
Movie | Traffic | Self - Guest | 2000-12-27 |
Movie | Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Get Bruce! | Self | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | One Day in September | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 1999-10-22 |
Series | Beckmann | Self | 1999-01-25 |
Movie | A Perfect Murder | Steven Taylor | 1998-06-05 |
Series | Will & Grace | Detective Gavin Hatch | 1998-09-21 |
Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | Completely Cuckoo | Self | 1997-12-16 |
Movie | The Game | Nicholas Van Orton | 1997-09-12 |
Movie | The Ghost and the Darkness | Charles Remington | 1996-10-11 |
Movie | The American President | Andrew Shepherd | 1995-11-17 |
Movie | Disclosure | Tom Sanders | 1994-12-09 |
Movie | Falling Down | D-Fens | 1993-02-26 |
Movie | Basic Instinct | Det. Nick Curran | 1992-03-20 |
Movie | Shining Through | Ed Leland | 1992-01-31 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Series | Pebble Mill | Self | 1991-10-14 |
Movie | If Dolphins Could Talk | Host | 1990-02-25 |
Movie | The Earth Day Special | Self | 1990-04-22 |
Movie | Black Rain | Nick Conklin | 1989-09-22 |
Movie | The War of the Roses | Oliver Rose | 1989-12-08 |
Movie | Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher | 1987-09-18 |
Movie | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko | 1987-12-10 |
Movie | The Jewel of the Nile | Jack T. Colton | 1985-08-01 |
Movie | A Chorus Line | Zach | 1985-12-10 |
Movie | Romancing the Stone | Jack T. Colton | 1984-03-30 |
Movie | The Star Chamber | Steven Hardin | 1983-08-05 |
Series | Wetten, dass..? | Self | 1981-02-14 |
Series | Entertainment Tonight | Self | 1981-09-15 |
Movie | It's My Turn | Ben Lewin | 1980-10-24 |
Movie | The China Syndrome | Richard Adams | 1979-03-16 |
Movie | Running | Michael Andropolis | 1979-10-30 |
Movie | Coma | Dr. Mark Bellows | 1978-01-06 |
Movie | TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Self | 1975-10-11 |
Movie | When Michael Calls | Craig | 1972-02-05 |
Movie | Napoleon and Samantha | Danny Arlington Williams III | 1972-07-05 |
Movie | The Streets of San Francisco | Steven Keller | 1972-09-16 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Steve Keller | 1972-09-23 |
Movie | Summertree | Jerry | 1971-06-06 |
Movie | Adam at Six A.M. | Adam Gaines | 1970-09-22 |
Movie | Hail, Hero! | Carl Dixon | 1969-10-04 |
Movie | Cast a Giant Shadow | Jeep Driver (uncredited) | 1966-03-30 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Jerry Williams | 1965-09-19 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 1962-10-01 |
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