Michael Douglas

Acting · Born 1944-09-25 in 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…

Filmography

• The War of the Roses as Oliver Rose
• Basic Instinct as Detective Nick Curran
• A Call to Arms as Self (voice)
• The China Syndrome as Richard Adams
• One Night at McCool's as Mr. Burmeister
• Downwind
• A Chorus Line as Zach
• You, Me and Dupree as Mr. Thompson
• The Ghost and the Darkness as Charles Remington
• The Jewel of the Nile as Jack T. Colton