Michael Douglas
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.
Born: 25 September 1944
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Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
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I Am Curious Johnny
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Looking Through Water
William
America's Burning
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Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dr. Hank Pym
Downwind
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
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What If...?
Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
What If...?
Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Legends
Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
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Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
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Deauville et le rêve américain
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Visible: Out on Television
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Green Eggs and Ham
Guy-Am-I (voice)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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Forman vs. Forman
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
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It Takes a Lunatic
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Avengers: Endgame
Hank Pym
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
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The Kominsky Method
Sandy Kominsky
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Hank Pym
Animal World
Anderson
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
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Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
GRAND PRIX Driver
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The Green Fog
Once upon a time on Wall Street
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The Untameable Kirk Douglas
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Unlocked
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Ocean Vet
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Ken San
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Ant-Man
Dr. Hank Pym
The Late Late Show with James Corden
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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Hollywood Banker
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Beyond the Reach
Madec
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
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And So It Goes
Oren Little
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Last Vegas
Billy Gerson
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
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Behind the Candelabra
Liberace
Close Up
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Finding Your Roots
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
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Haywire
Alex Coblenz
The Streets of the Invisibles
Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
The Jonathan Ross Show
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Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Gordon Gekko
America: The Story of Us
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Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
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Solitary Man
Ben Kalmen
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Uncle Wayne
The Day After Peace
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A Call to Arms
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Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Mark Hunter
Fog City Mavericks
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Trumbo
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Dinosaurs Alive
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The Graham Norton Show
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King of California
Charlie
Black Rain: Making The Film
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You, Me and Dupree
Mr. Thompson
The Sentinel
Pete Garrison
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
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A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
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The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
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Tell Them Who You Are
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Declaration of Independence
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Celebrities Uncensored
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The In-Laws
Steve Tobias
It Runs in the Family
Alex Gromberg
Direct Order
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Real Time with Bill Maher
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
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Don't Say a Word
Dr. Nathan Conrad
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
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In Search of Peace
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One Night at McCool's
Mr. Burmeister
Traffic
Robert Wakefield
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
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The Directors: Milos Forman
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Wonder Boys
Grady Tripp
One Day in September
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Beckmann
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Get Bruce!
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Forever Hollywood
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Will & Grace
Detective Gavin Hatch
The Magic Hour
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A Perfect Murder
Steven Taylor
Completely Cuckoo
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The Game
Nicholas Van Orton
The View
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Leute heute
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The Ghost and the Darkness
Charles Remington
The American President
Andrew Shepherd
Disclosure
Tom Sanders
Inside the Actors Studio
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Falling Down
D-Fens
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Basic Instinct
Detective Nick Curran
Shining Through
Ed Leland
Pebble Mill
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The Earth Day Special
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If Dolphins Could Talk
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The War of the Roses
Oliver Rose
Black Rain
Nick Conklin
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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cascadeurs de stars
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The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
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Electric Blue 29
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Wall Street
Gordon Gekko
Fatal Attraction
Dan Gallagher
A Chorus Line
Zach
The Jewel of the Nile
Jack T. Colton
Romancing the Stone
Jack T. Colton
Goldene Kamera
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Goldene Kamera
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The Star Chamber
Steven Hardin
Champs-Elysées
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Entertainment Tonight
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Wetten, dass..?
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It's My Turn
Ben Lewin
Running
Michael Andropolis
The China Syndrome
Richard Adams
Coma
Dr. Mark Bellows
The Hollywood Greats
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
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Saturday Night Live
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People's Choice Awards
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People's Choice Awards
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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Hassles and Hangups
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The Streets of San Francisco
Steve Keller
The Streets of San Francisco
Steven Keller
Napoleon and Samantha
Danny Arlington Williams III
When Michael Calls
Craig
Summertree
Jerry
Adam at Six A.M.
Adam Gaines
Hail, Hero!
Carl Dixon
CBS Playhouse
Wilson Evans
Cast a Giant Shadow
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
The F.B.I.
Jerry Williams
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Merv Griffin Show
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The Mike Douglas Show
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The Mike Douglas Show
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Tony Awards
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The Oscars
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This Is Your Life
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Bambi
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
White Lies