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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…
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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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Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
as Self
I Am Curious Johnny
as Self
Looking Through Water
as William
America's Burning
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
as Self - Actor
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Dr. Hank Pym
Downwind
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
as Self
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
as Self
Deauville et le rêve américain
as Self
Forman vs. Forman
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
as Self
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
Avengers: Endgame
as Hank Pym
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Ant-Man and the Wasp
as Dr. Hank Pym
No Poster
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
as Self (archive footage)
Animal World
as Anderson
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
as Guest
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
The Green Fog
Once upon a time on Wall Street
as Self
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
as Self - Actor
Unlocked
as Eric Lasch
Ken San
as Self
Ant-Man
as Dr. Hank Pym
Hollywood Banker
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Reach
as Madec
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
And So It Goes
as Oren Little
Last Vegas
as Billy Gerson
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
as Self
Behind the Candelabra
as Liberace
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Haywire
as Alex Coblenz
No Poster
The Streets of the Invisibles
as Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
No Poster
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
as Self
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Gordon Gekko
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
Solitary Man
as Ben Kalmen
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
as Uncle Wayne
No Poster
The Day After Peace
as Self
A Call to Arms
as Self (voice)
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Mark Hunter
Fog City Mavericks
as Self
Trumbo
as Self
Dinosaurs Alive
as Narrator
King of California
as Charlie
Black Rain: Making The Film
as Self
You, Me and Dupree
as Mr. Thompson
The Sentinel
as Pete Garrison
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
as Self
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
as Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
as Self
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
as Self
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
Declaration of Independence
as Self
The In-Laws
as Steve Tobias
It Runs in the Family
as Alex Gromberg
No Poster
Direct Order
as Narrator
Don't Say a Word
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
as Self (archive footage)
In Search of Peace
as Narrator (voice)
One Night at McCool's
as Mr. Burmeister
Traffic
as Robert Wakefield
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
as Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
Wonder Boys
as Grady Tripp
One Day in September
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
Forever Hollywood
as Self
Get Bruce!
as Self
A Perfect Murder
as Steven Taylor
Completely Cuckoo
as Self
The Game
as Nicholas Van Orton
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Charles Remington
The American President
as Andrew Shepherd
Disclosure
as Tom Sanders
Falling Down
as D-Fens
Basic Instinct
as Detective Nick Curran
Shining Through
as Ed Leland
Lennon: A Tribute
as Host
The Earth Day Special
as Self
No Poster
If Dolphins Could Talk
as Host
The War of the Roses
as Oliver Rose
Black Rain
as Nick Conklin
No Poster
cascadeurs de stars
as Self
No Poster
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
as Self
Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
Wall Street
as Gordon Gekko
Fatal Attraction
as Dan Gallagher
A Chorus Line
as Zach
The Jewel of the Nile
as Jack T. Colton
Romancing the Stone
as Jack T. Colton
The Star Chamber
as Steven Hardin
It's My Turn
as Ben Lewin
Running
as Michael Andropolis
The China Syndrome
as Richard Adams
Coma
as Dr. Mark Bellows
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
as Self
Hassles and Hangups
as Narrator
The Streets of San Francisco
as Steven Keller
Napoleon and Samantha
as Danny Arlington Williams III
When Michael Calls
as Craig
Summertree
as Jerry
Adam at Six A.M.
as Adam Gaines
Hail, Hero!
as Carl Dixon
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
No Poster