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 Dou ... glas 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.
The Streets of San Francisco
as Steve Keller
Episodes: 119
First Aired: Sep 23, 1972
Green Eggs and Ham
as Guy-Am-I (voice)
Episodes: 23
First Aired: Nov 08, 2019
The Kominsky Method
as Sandy Kominsky
Episodes: 22
First Aired: Nov 16, 2018
Ocean Vet
as Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 11
First Aired: Dec 14, 2016
Franklin
as Benjamin Franklin
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Apr 11, 2024
GRAND PRIX Driver
as Narrator
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Feb 08, 2018
Marvel Studios Legends
as Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jan 08, 2021
The F.B.I.
as Jerry Williams
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1965
Will & Grace
as Detective Gavin Hatch
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1998
What If...?
as Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 11, 2021
What If...?
as Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 11, 2021
Honest Trailers
as Hank Pym (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 13, 2012
America: The Story of Us
as Self
Episodes: 7
First Aired: Apr 25, 2010
The View
as Self
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Aug 11, 1997
The Oscars
as Self
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Mar 19, 1953
Visible: Out on Television
as Self
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Feb 14, 2020
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Episodes: 4
First Aired: May 25, 1992
Champs-Elysées
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jan 16, 1982
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 05, 1988
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 25, 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 22, 2007
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Leute heute
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 23, 1997
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 14, 1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 26, 2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 05, 1988
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 08, 2002
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 04, 2003
This Is Your Life
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
CBS Playhouse
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 08, 1966
Pebble Mill
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 14, 1991
The Hollywood Greats
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 04, 1977
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 03, 2011
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 11, 1975
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 14, 1981
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 03, 2005
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 23, 2015
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 11, 1961
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 23, 2015
People's Choice Awards
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 04, 1975
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 17, 2014
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 25, 1966
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
as Self - Laudatio
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 25, 1966
Bambi Awards
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 1948
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1981
The Magic Hour
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 08, 1998
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 12, 1975
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 09, 2019
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 21, 2022
Beckmann
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 25, 1999
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2015
Saturday Night Live
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 11, 1975
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
Finding Your Roots
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 24, 2012
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 21, 2003
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 21, 2014
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