Michael Douglas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 25, 1944 (age 82)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
White Lies
Movie
Sock It to Me: The Legend of George Schlatter
Movie · as Self
Looking Through Water
Movie · as William
I Am Curious Johnny
Movie · as Self
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Movie · as Self
America's Burning
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Franklin
TV · as Benjamin Franklin · 8 eps
Downwind
Movie
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Movie · as Self - Actor
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Movie · as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Movie · as Dr. Hank Pym
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Movie · as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
What If...?
TV · as Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice), Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice) · 1 ep
Marvel Studios Legends
TV · as Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited) · 3 eps
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Movie · as Self
Deauville et le rêve américain
Movie · as Self
Visible: Out on Television
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Movie · as Self
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie · as Self
Avengers: Endgame
Movie · as Hank Pym
Forman vs. Forman
Movie · as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Green Eggs and Ham
TV · as Guy-Am-I (voice) · 23 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Movie · as Dr. Hank Pym
Animal World
Movie · as Anderson
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Movie · as Guest
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Movie
The Green Fog
Movie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
GRAND PRIX Driver
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
The Kominsky Method
TV · as Sandy Kominsky · 22 eps
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Movie · as Self
Unlocked
Movie · as Eric Lasch
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Movie · as Self - Actor
Ken San
Movie · as Self
Ocean Vet
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 11 eps
Ant-Man
Movie · as Dr. Hank Pym
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
And So It Goes
Movie · as Oren Little
Beyond the Reach
Movie · as Madec
Hollywood Banker
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Movie · as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Behind the Candelabra
Movie · as Liberace
Last Vegas
Movie · as Billy
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Movie · as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Movie · as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie · as (archive footage)
Close Up
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Finding Your Roots
TV · 1 ep
Haywire
Movie · as Alex Coblenz
The Streets of the Invisibles
Movie · as Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Movie · as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Movie · as Gordon Gekko
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Movie · as Self
America: The Story of Us
TV · as Self · 7 eps
A Call to Arms
Movie · as Self (voice)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Movie · as Mark Hunter
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Movie · as Uncle Wayne
Solitary Man
Movie · as Ben Kalmen
The Day After Peace
Movie · as Self
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Movie · as Self
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Movie · as Self
King of California
Movie · as Charlie
Dinosaurs Alive
Movie · as Narrator
Trumbo
Movie · as Self
Fog City Mavericks
Movie · as Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
You, Me and Dupree
Movie · as Mr. Thompson
The Sentinel
Movie · as Pete Garrison
Black Rain: Making The Film
Movie · as Self
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Movie · as Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tell Them Who You Are
Movie · as Self
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Movie · as Self
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Movie · as Self
The In-Laws
Movie · as Steve Tobias
It Runs in the Family
Movie · as Alex Gromberg
Direct Order
Movie · as Narrator
Declaration of Independence
Movie · as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 2 eps
Celebrities Uncensored
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
TV · as Self · 1 ep
One Night at McCool's
Movie · as Mr. Burmeister
Don't Say a Word
Movie · as Dr. Nathan Conrad
In Search of Peace
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Traffic
Movie · as Robert Wakefield
Wonder Boys
Movie · as Grady Tripp
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Movie · as Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
Movie · as Self
One Day in September
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Get Bruce!
Movie · as Self
Forever Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Movie · as Self
Beckmann
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Perfect Murder
Movie · as Steven Taylor
Will & Grace
TV · as Detective Gavin Hatch · 1 ep
The Magic Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Game
Movie · as Nicholas Van Orton
Completely Cuckoo
Movie · as Self
The View
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Leute heute
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Ghost and the Darkness
Movie · as Charles Remington
The American President
Movie · as Andrew Shepherd
Disclosure
Movie · as Tom Sanders
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Falling Down
Movie · as D-Fens
Basic Instinct
Movie · as Detective Nick Curran
Shining Through
Movie · as Ed Leland
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 4 eps
Pebble Mill
TV · as Self · 1 ep
If Dolphins Could Talk
Movie · as Host
The Earth Day Special
Movie · as Self
Lennon: A Tribute
Movie · as Host
The War of the Roses
Movie · as Oliver Rose
Black Rain
Movie · as Nick Conklin
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Movie · as Self
Electric Blue 29
Movie · as (archive footage)
cascadeurs de stars
Movie · as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 1 ep
Wall Street
Movie · as Gordon Gekko
Fatal Attraction
Movie · as Dan Gallagher
A Chorus Line
Movie · as Zach
The Jewel of the Nile
Movie · as Jack T. Colton
Romancing the Stone
Movie · as Jack T. Colton
Goldene Kamera
TV · as Self, Self - Laudatio · 1 ep
Jeopardy!
TV · as Self - Clue Presenter · 2 eps
The Star Chamber
Movie · as Steven Hardin
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Wetten, dass..?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Entertainment Tonight
TV · as Self · 1 ep
It's My Turn
Movie · as Ben Lewin
The China Syndrome
Movie · as Richard Adams
Running
Movie · as Michael Andropolis
Coma
Movie · as Dr. Mark Bellows
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep
The Hollywood Greats
TV · 1 ep
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Movie · as Self
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
People's Choice Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter, Self - Winner · 1 ep
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hassles and Hangups
Movie · as Narrator
Napoleon and Samantha
Movie · as Danny Arlington Williams III
When Michael Calls
Movie · as Craig
The Streets of San Francisco
Movie · as Steven Keller
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Steve Keller · 119 eps
Summertree
Movie · as Jerry
Film '72
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Adam at Six A.M.
Movie · as Adam Gaines
Hail, Hero!
Movie · as Carl Dixon
Cast a Giant Shadow
Movie · as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
CBS Playhouse
TV · as Wilson Evans · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as Jerry Williams · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self, Self - Co-Host · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 5 eps
This Is Your Life
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Bambi
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self - Audience Member, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award · 3 eps