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.
164 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 164
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Will & Grace
1998
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Leute heute
1997
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Champs-Elysées
1982
Tony Awards
1956
What If...?
2021
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The F.B.I.
1965
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Bambi
1948
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Beckmann
1999
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Oscars
1953
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
People's Choice Awards
1975
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Goldene Kamera
1984
Pebble Mill
1991
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
Green Eggs and Ham
2019
Basic Instinct
1992
This Is Your Life
1952
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
Ant-Man
2015
The Kominsky Method
2018
Entertainment Tonight
1981
CBS Playhouse
1966
Franklin
2024
The Game
1997
America: The Story of Us
2010
Falling Down
1993
Romancing the Stone
1984
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
Traffic
2000
Wall Street
1987
A Perfect Murder
1998
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Visible: Out on Television
2020
The Magic Hour
1998
Unlocked
2017
Fatal Attraction
1987
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Disclosure
1994
The American President
1995
Black Rain
1989
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Last Vegas
2013
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
The Sentinel
2006
Haywire
2011
The War of the Roses
1989
Don't Say a Word
2001
The Jewel of the Nile
1985
Coma
1978
And So It Goes
2014
Solitary Man
2009
Beyond the Reach
2014
Behind the Candelabra
2013
Wonder Boys
2000
The In-Laws
2003
The China Syndrome
1979
A Chorus Line
1985
Animal World
2018
The Earth Day Special
1990
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
GRAND PRIX Driver
2018
Close Up
2012
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
Shining Through
1992
One Night at McCool's
2001
You, Me and Dupree
2006
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Star Chamber
1983
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
King of California
2007
Trumbo
2007
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966
Declaration of Independence
2003
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
1988
Ocean Vet
2016
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
Fog City Mavericks
2007
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
2019
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005
Napoleon and Samantha
1972
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
2020
Black Rain: Making The Film
2006
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013
Get Bruce!
1999
The Green Fog
2018
Hollywood Banker
2014
Ken San
2016
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2011
It's My Turn
1980
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
Forever Hollywood
1999
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
2025
Summertree
1971
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
Looking Through Water
2025
Dinosaurs Alive
2007
Downwind
2023
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
Running
1979
It Runs in the Family
2003
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
Hail, Hero!
1969
In Search of Peace
2001
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
2020
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
The Day After Peace
2009
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
Completely Cuckoo
1997
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
2013
Electric Blue 29
1988
When Michael Calls
1972
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Forman vs. Forman
2019
One Day in September
1999
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
2023
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
2010
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
Once upon a time on Wall Street
2017
Deauville et le rêve américain
2020
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
2018
America's Burning
2024
cascadeurs de stars
1988
I Am Curious Johnny
2025
A Call to Arms
2009
Direct Order
2003
If Dolphins Could Talk
1990
The Streets of the Invisibles
2011
Hassles and Hangups
1973
