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

• Basic Instinct as Detective Nick Curran
• The China Syndrome as Richard Adams
• Traffic as Robert Wakefield
• Wall Street as Gordon Gekko
• The Game as Nicholas Van Orton
• Falling Down as D-Fens
• Ant-Man as Dr. Hank Pym
• Animal World as Anderson
• Avengers: Endgame as Hank Pym
• The War of the Roses as Oliver Rose

TV

• What If...? as Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
• What If...? as Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• The F.B.I. as Jerry Williams
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
• The View as Self
• The Streets of San Francisco as Steve Keller
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno