Michael Douglas 1944 81
Michael Douglas 1944 81
Michael Kirk Douglas 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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2025 Looking Through Water as William
2024 America's Burning as Self - Narrator (voice) Executive Producer
2023 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
2023 Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son as Self - Actor
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Dr. Hank Pym
2023 Downwind
2021 Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
2020 Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone as Self
2020 Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood as Self
2020 Deauville et le rêve américain as Self
2019 Earthquake Bird Thanks
2019 Forman vs. Forman as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
2019 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Executive Producer
2019 Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate as Self
2019 It Takes a Lunatic as Self
2019 Avengers: Endgame as Hank Pym
2019 Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp as Dr. Hank Pym
2018 Animal World as Anderson
2018 Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival as Guest
2017 Once upon a time on Wall Street as Self
2017 Flatliners Producer
2017 The Untameable Kirk Douglas as Self - Actor Thanks
2017 Unlocked as Eric Lasch
2016 Ken San as Self
2015 Ant-Man as Dr. Hank Pym
2014 Hollywood Banker as Self (archive footage)
2014 Beyond the Reach as Madec Producer
2014 Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film as Self
2014 And So It Goes as Oren Little
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 Last Vegas as Billy Gerson
2013 The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2013 Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon as Self
2013 Behind the Candelabra as Liberace
2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 Haywire as Alex Coblenz
2011 The Streets of the Invisibles as Steve Keller (voice)
2011 Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2010 14 Actors Acting as Self
2010 Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? as Self
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Gordon Gekko
2009 Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2009 Solitary Man as Ben Kalmen
2009 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past as Uncle Wayne
2009 The Day After Peace as Self
2009 A Call to Arms as Self (voice)
2009 Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Self
2009 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt as Mark Hunter
2007 Fog City Mavericks as Self
2007 Trumbo as Self
2007 Dinosaurs Alive as Narrator
2007 King of California as Charlie
2006 Black Rain: Making The Film as Self
2006 You, Me and Dupree as Mr. Thompson
2006 The Sentinel as Pete Garrison Producer
2005 Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema as Self
2005 A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Self
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2004 The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy as Self
2004 The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent as Self
2004 Tell Them Who You Are as Self
2003 Declaration of Independence as Self
2003 The In-Laws as Steve Tobias
2003 It Runs in the Family as Alex Gromberg Producer
2003 Direct Order as Narrator
2001 Don't Say a Word as Dr. Nathan Conrad
2001 In Search of Peace as Narrator (voice)
2001 One Night at McCool's as Mr. Burmeister Producer
2000 Traffic as Robert Wakefield
2000 Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' as Self
2000 The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
2000 Wonder Boys as Grady Tripp
1999 One Day in September as Self - Narrator (voice)
1999 Forever Hollywood as Self
1999 Get Bruce! as Self
1998 A Perfect Murder as Steven Taylor
1997 Completely Cuckoo as Self
1997 The Rainmaker Producer
1997 The Game as Nicholas Van Orton
1997 Face/Off Executive Producer
1996 The Ghost and the Darkness as Charles Remington Executive Producer
1995 The American President as Andrew Shepherd
1994 Disclosure as Tom Sanders
1993 Falling Down as D-Fens
1993 Made in America Producer
1992 Basic Instinct as Detective Nick Curran
1992 Radio Flyer Executive Producer
1992 Shining Through as Ed Leland
1991 Double Impact Co-Producer
1991 Eyes of an Angel Executive Producer
1991 Stone Cold Co-Producer
1990 Flatliners Producer
1990 The Earth Day Special as Self
1990 If Dolphins Could Talk as Host
1989 When Michael Calls as Craig
1989 The War of the Roses as Oliver Rose
1989 Black Rain as Nick Conklin
1988 cascadeurs de stars as Self
1988 Electric Blue 29 as (archive footage)
1988 The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen as Self
1987 Wall Street as Gordon Gekko
1987 Fatal Attraction as Dan Gallagher
1985 A Chorus Line as Zach
1985 The Jewel of the Nile as Jack T. Colton Producer
1984 Starman Executive Producer
1984 Romancing the Stone as Jack T. Colton Producer
1983 The Star Chamber as Steven Hardin
1980 It's My Turn as Ben Lewin
1979 Running as Michael Andropolis Executive Producer
1979 The China Syndrome as Richard Adams Producer
1978 Coma as Dr. Mark Bellows
1976 TVTV Looks at the Oscars as Self
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Producer
1973 Hassles and Hangups as Narrator
1972 The Streets of San Francisco as Steven Keller
1972 Napoleon and Samantha as Danny Arlington Williams III
1971 Summertree as Jerry
1970 Adam at Six A.M. as Adam Gaines
1969 Hail, Hero! as Carl Dixon
1966 Cast a Giant Shadow as Jeep Driver (uncredited)