Michael Douglas

Acting · 3.7 popularity

Age

Movies

114

Born: September 25, 1944
From: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

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. 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.

Works

114 films

Avengers: Endgame

20198.2

Ant-Man

20157.1

Ant-Man and the Wasp

20186.9

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

20236.2

Basic Instinct

19926.9

The Game

19977.6

Falling Down

19937.4

Traffic

20007.1

Fatal Attraction

19876.8

Wall Street

19877.2

A Perfect Murder

19986.6

The Sentinel

20066.1

Romancing the Stone

19846.8

The War of the Roses

19896.9

Last Vegas

20136.4

Disclosure

19946.3

Don't Say a Word

20016.3

The Ghost and the Darkness

19966.8

Black Rain

19896.6

The Jewel of the Nile

19856.2

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

20106.1

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

20096.0

Haywire

20115.7

Unlocked

20176.3

Beyond the Reach

20145.9

The American President

19956.5

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

20236.2

Behind the Candelabra

20136.6

Wonder Boys

20006.8

The China Syndrome

19797.1

And So It Goes

20146.0

A Chorus Line

19856.2

Coma

19786.8

The In-Laws

20035.6

You, Me and Dupree

20065.6

Get Bruce!

19996.5

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Shining Through

19926.5

One Night at McCool's

20015.9

Looking Through Water

20256.3

Solitary Man

20095.9

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Animal World

20187.0

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

20095.7

King of California

20076.4

Forever Hollywood

19998.3

The Star Chamber

19836.0

Cast a Giant Shadow

19666.4

It Runs in the Family

20036.0

The Earth Day Special

19906.1

Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life

2025

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

White Lies

2026

Napoleon and Samantha

19726.3

Fog City Mavericks

20078.5

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

20197.0

Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

20195.3

The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

20137.5

Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

20203.8

Declaration of Independence

20037.7

The Directors: Milos Forman

2000

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

20096.5

Completely Cuckoo

19975.7

Hollywood Banker

20146.4

Dinosaurs Alive

20075.4

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

20216.8

It's My Turn

19805.8

Close Up

20129.5

Ken San

20166.7

It Takes a Lunatic

20195.3

Black Rain: Making The Film

20067.3

The Untameable Kirk Douglas

20176.0

Downwind

20236.8

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

20007.0

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth

2018

Running

19796.7

The Day After Peace

20094.0

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

20056.6

Deauville et le rêve américain

2020

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

Trumbo

20076.7

Hail, Hero!

19696.5

One Day in September

19997.3

When Michael Calls

19725.7

The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

20047.7

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

20137.1

Adam at Six A.M.

19704.9

Summertree

19716.2

Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'

20016.8

Once upon a time on Wall Street

20176.0

Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son

20238.3

A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

20056.4

The Streets of San Francisco

19727.3

Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

20117.4

Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

20092.0

Tell Them Who You Are

20046.1

The Green Fog

20186.1

Forman vs. Forman

20197.6

Electric Blue 29

1988

The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen

1988

TVTV Looks at the Oscars

19766.3

The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

20048.0

The Streets of the Invisibles

2011

Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival

2018

Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood

20205.0

Direct Order

20036.5

A Call to Arms

20096.0

America's Burning

2024

In Search of Peace

20017.0

cascadeurs de stars

1988

Hassles and Hangups

1973

If Dolphins Could Talk

199010.0

I Am Curious Johnny

20257.0

Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

2010