Michael Douglas
Known for Acting · 164 credits
- Born
- 1944-09-25 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Michael Kirk Douglas
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (53)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self / Self - Co-Host
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self / Self - Guest
The View
1997
as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self / Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
Will & Grace
1998
as Detective Gavin Hatch
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self / Self - Guest
Leute heute
1997
as Self
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
What If...?
2021
as Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice) / Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
The F.B.I.
1965
as Jerry Williams
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Bambi
1948
as Self
Beckmann
1999
as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Steve Keller
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Oscars
1953
as Self
People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self / Self - Laudatio
Green Eggs and Ham
2019
as Guy-Am-I (voice)
This Is Your Life
1952
as Self
The Kominsky Method
2018
as Sandy Kominsky
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Wilson Evans
Franklin
2024
as Benjamin Franklin
America: The Story of Us
2010
as Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic Hour
1998
as Self
Visible: Out on Television
2020
as Self
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
GRAND PRIX Driver
2018
as Narrator
Ocean Vet
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
Movies (111)
Avengers: Endgame
2019
as Hank Pym
Basic Instinct
1992
as Detective Nick Curran
Ant-Man
2015
as Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
as Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
as Dr. Hank Pym
The Game
1997
as Nicholas Van Orton
Falling Down
1993
as D-Fens
Romancing the Stone
1984
as Jack T. Colton
Traffic
2000
as Robert Wakefield
Disclosure
1994
as Tom Sanders
A Perfect Murder
1998
as Steven Taylor
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Fatal Attraction
1987
as Dan Gallagher
Wall Street
1987
as Gordon Gekko
Last Vegas
2013
as Billy Gerson
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
as Charles Remington
Unlocked
2017
as Eric Lasch
Black Rain
1989
as Nick Conklin
The American President
1995
as Andrew Shepherd
Haywire
2011
as Alex Coblenz
Beyond the Reach
2014
as Madec
The Jewel of the Nile
1985
as Jack T. Colton
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
as Gordon Gekko
The Sentinel
2006
as Pete Garrison
Coma
1978
as Dr. Mark Bellows
The War of the Roses
1989
as Oliver Rose
Don't Say a Word
2001
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
as Uncle Wayne
Wonder Boys
2000
as Grady Tripp
Behind the Candelabra
2013
as Liberace
And So It Goes
2014
as Oren Little
Solitary Man
2009
as Ben Kalmen
The China Syndrome
1979
as Richard Adams
A Chorus Line
1985
as Zach
Shining Through
1992
as Ed Leland
The In-Laws
2003
as Steve Tobias
The Earth Day Special
1990
as Self
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
as Mark Hunter
Animal World
2018
as Anderson
You, Me and Dupree
2006
as Mr. Thompson
One Night at McCool's
2001
as Mr. Burmeister
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The Star Chamber
1983
as Steven Hardin
Trumbo
2007
as Self
King of California
2007
as Charlie
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966
as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
Declaration of Independence
2003
as Self
It Runs in the Family
2003
as Alex Gromberg
Get Bruce!
1999
as Self
Fog City Mavericks
2007
as Self
Napoleon and Samantha
1972
as Danny Arlington Williams III
Looking Through Water
2025
as William
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
1988
as Self
Running
1979
as Michael Andropolis
Black Rain: Making The Film
2006
as Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005
as Self
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
2020
as Self
Ken San
2016
as Self
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013
as Self
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
as Self
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009
as Self
The Green Fog
2018
Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
2019
as Self
It's My Turn
1980
as Ben Lewin
Summertree
1971
as Jerry
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Dinosaurs Alive
2007
as Narrator
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
as Self
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
as Self
Downwind
2023
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
as Self
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
2025
as Self
In Search of Peace
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
as Self
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
2013
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
as Adam Gaines
When Michael Calls
1972
as Craig
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
as Self
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2011
as Self
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
2020
as Self
Hollywood Banker
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
as Self - Actor
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004
as Self
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
as Self
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005
as Self
Electric Blue 29
1988
as (archive footage)
The Day After Peace
2009
as Self
One Day in September
1999
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hail, Hero!
1969
as Carl Dixon
Completely Cuckoo
1997
as Self
Forman vs. Forman
2019
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Steven Keller
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
2023
as Self - Actor
America's Burning
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Deauville et le rêve américain
2020
as Self
Once upon a time on Wall Street
2017
as Self
cascadeurs de stars
1988
as Self
I Am Curious Johnny
2025
as Self
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
2010
as Self
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
2018
as Guest
The Streets of the Invisibles
2011
as Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
If Dolphins Could Talk
1990
as Host
A Call to Arms
2009
as Self (voice)
Direct Order
2003
as Narrator
Hassles and Hangups
1973
as Narrator
About 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… With 164 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, Michael Douglas has appeared in 111 films and 53 TV shows.
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Most Popular Michael Douglas Movies
- Avengers: Endgame (2019) — as Hank Pym
- Basic Instinct (1992) — as Detective Nick Curran
- Ant-Man (2015) — as Dr. Hank Pym
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) — as Dr. Hank Pym
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) — as Dr. Hank Pym
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