10.0
10.0
Declaration of Independence
2003
as Self
Michael Douglas
Also known as: Michael Kirk Douglas
Acting
Born:September 25, 1944(age 81)
Birthplace:New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:University of California, Santa Barbara, Choate Rosemary Hall, Eaglebrook School, Allen-Stevenson School
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CommunityBiography
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.
Notable Works
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestWall Street
Filmography (113 movies)
10.0
10.0
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
10.0
10.0
If Dolphins Could Talk
1990
as Host
9.5
9.5
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
8.5
8.5
Fog City Mavericks
2007
as Self
8.4
8.4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
Producer
8.3
8.3
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
2023
as Self - Actor
8.0
8.0
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
as Self
8.0
8.0
Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self
8.0
8.0
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Steven Keller
7.7
7.7
Forman vs. Forman
2019
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
7.6
7.6
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2011
7.6
7.6
The Game
1997
as Nicholas Van Orton
7.5
7.5
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
2013
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
7.4
7.4
Falling Down
1993
as D-Fens
7.3
7.3
One Day in September
1999
as Self - Narrator (voice)
7.3
7.3
Black Rain: Making The Film
2006
as Self
7.2
7.2
Wall Street
1987
as Gordon Gekko
7.2
7.2
The China Syndrome
1979
Producer
7.1
7.1
Traffic
2000
as Robert Wakefield
7.1
7.1
Ant-Man
2015
as Dr. Hank Pym
7.0
7.0
Face/Off
1997
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013
as Self
7.0
7.0
The Rainmaker
1997
Producer
7.0
7.0
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
I Am Curious Johnny
2025
as Self
7.0
7.0
Radio Flyer
1992
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Animal World
2018
as Anderson
6.9
6.9
Basic Instinct
1992
as Detective Nick Curran
6.9
6.9
Starman
1984
Executive Producer
6.9
6.9
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
as Dr. Hank Pym
6.9
6.9
The War of the Roses
1989
as Oliver Rose
6.9
6.9
Eyes of an Angel
1991
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Fatal Attraction
1987
as Dan Gallagher
6.8
6.8
Downwind
2023
6.8
6.8
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Hollywood Banker
2014
as Self (archive footage)
6.8
6.8
Wonder Boys
2000
as Grady Tripp
6.8
6.8
Romancing the Stone
1984
Producer
6.7
6.7
Coma
1978
as Dr. Mark Bellows
6.6
6.6
Trumbo
2007
as Self
6.6
6.6
Behind the Candelabra
2013
as Liberace
6.6
6.6
Running
1979
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
as Self
6.6
6.6
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005
as Self
6.6
6.6
Black Rain
1989
as Nick Conklin
6.5
6.5
A Perfect Murder
1998
as Steven Taylor
6.5
6.5
The American President
1995
as Andrew Shepherd
6.5
6.5
Shining Through
1992
as Ed Leland
6.5
6.5
In Search of Peace
2001
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
as Self
6.5
6.5
Flatliners
1990
Producer
6.4
6.4
King of California
2007
as Charlie
6.4
6.4
Last Vegas
2013
as Billy Gerson
6.4
6.4
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005
as Self
6.3
6.3
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
as Dr. Hank Pym
6.3
6.3
Disclosure
1994
as Tom Sanders
6.3
6.3
Don't Say a Word
2001
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
6.2
6.2
Unlocked
2017
as Eric Lasch
6.2
6.2
A Chorus Line
1985
as Zach
6.2
6.2
The Jewel of the Nile
1985
Producer
6.2
6.2
Napoleon and Samantha
1972
as Danny Arlington Williams III
6.2
6.2
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
6.2
6.2
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
as Self - Actor
6.2
6.2
Get Bruce!
1999
as Self
6.1
6.1
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
as Gordon Gekko
6.1
6.1
The Sentinel
2006
Producer
6.0
6.0
And So It Goes
2014
as Oren Little
6.0
6.0
Direct Order
2003
as Narrator
6.0
6.0
The Star Chamber
1983
as Steven Hardin
6.0
6.0
Ken San
2016
as Self
6.0
6.0
Hail, Hero!
1969
as Carl Dixon
6.0
6.0
Once upon a time on Wall Street
2017
as Self
6.0
6.0
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004
as Self
6.0
6.0
A Call to Arms
2009
as Self (voice)
6.0
6.0
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
as Self
6.0
6.0
It Runs in the Family
2003
Producer
6.0
6.0
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
as Uncle Wayne
5.9
5.9
Solitary Man
2009
as Ben Kalmen
5.9
5.9
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
as Self
5.9
5.9
Beyond the Reach
2014
Producer
5.9
5.9
One Night at McCool's
2001
Producer
5.7
5.7
Haywire
2011
as Alex Coblenz
5.7
5.7
Summertree
1971
as Jerry
5.7
5.7
Completely Cuckoo
1997
as Self
5.7
5.7
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
as Mark Hunter
5.7
5.7
It's My Turn
1980
as Ben Lewin
5.6
5.6
Flatliners
2017
Producer
5.6
5.6
The In-Laws
2003
as Steve Tobias
5.6
5.6
You, Me and Dupree
2006
as Mr. Thompson
5.5
5.5
Made in America
1993
Producer
5.5
5.5
When Michael Calls
1989
as Craig
5.5
5.5
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
2019
Executive Producer
5.4
5.4
Dinosaurs Alive
2007
as Narrator
5.3
5.3
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
as Self
5.3
5.3
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
2019
as Self
5.2
5.2
Looking Through Water
2025
as William
5.0
5.0
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
2020
as Self
4.8
4.8
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
4.5
4.5
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
as Adam Gaines
4.0
4.0
The Day After Peace
2009
as Self
3.8
3.8
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
2020
as Self
2.0
2.0
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009
as Self
Hassles and Hangups
1973
as Narrator
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
1988
as Self
America's Burning
2024
Executive Producer
Electric Blue 29
1988
as (archive footage)
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
2018
as Guest
Deauville et le rêve américain
2020
as Self
cascadeurs de stars
1988
as Self
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
2010
as Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
as Self
The Streets of the Invisibles
2011
as Steve Keller (voice)
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