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.
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 (Movies)
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Character:Self
Release Date:21/12/2025
I Am Curious Johnny
Character:Self
Release Date:17/10/2025
Looking Through Water
Character:William
Release Date:03/09/2025
America's Burning
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:09/06/2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Character:Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Release Date:19/07/2023
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Character:Self - Actor
Release Date:14/05/2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Character:Dr. Hank Pym
Release Date:15/02/2023
Downwind
Character:
Release Date:20/01/2023
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Character:Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Release Date:11/01/2021
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Character:Self
Release Date:15/12/2020
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:19/11/2020
Deauville et le rêve américain
Character:Self
Release Date:05/09/2020
Forman vs. Forman
Character:Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Release Date:16/07/2019
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Character:Self
Release Date:14/05/2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Character:Self
Release Date:03/05/2019
Avengers: Endgame
Character:Hank Pym
Release Date:24/04/2019
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Character:Self - Actor (archive footage)
Release Date:14/04/2019
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Character:Dr. Hank Pym
Release Date:04/07/2018
Animal World
Character:Anderson
Release Date:29/06/2018
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Character:Guest
Release Date:03/04/2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Character:
Release Date:01/03/2018
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Character:Self
Release Date:05/11/2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Character:Self - Actor
Release Date:01/06/2017
Unlocked
Character:Eric Lasch
Release Date:27/04/2017
Ken San
Character:Self
Release Date:20/08/2016
Ant-Man
Character:Dr. Hank Pym
Release Date:14/07/2015
Hollywood Banker
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/10/2014
Beyond the Reach
Character:Madec
Release Date:06/09/2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Character:Self
Release Date:25/08/2014
And So It Goes
Character:Oren Little
Release Date:10/07/2014
Last Vegas
Character:Billy Gerson
Release Date:31/10/2013
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Character:Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Release Date:18/10/2013
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Character:Self
Release Date:07/09/2013
Behind the Candelabra
Character:Liberace
Release Date:26/05/2013
Close Up
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:30/09/2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:04/02/2012
Haywire
Character:Alex Coblenz
Release Date:01/11/2011
The Streets of the Invisibles
Character:Steve Keller (voice)
Release Date:03/10/2011
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Character:Self
Release Date:27/06/2011
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Character:Self
Release Date:28/09/2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Character:Gordon Gekko
Release Date:20/09/2010
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Character:Self
Release Date:08/10/2009
Solitary Man
Character:Ben Kalmen
Release Date:07/09/2009
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Character:Uncle Wayne
Release Date:01/05/2009
The Day After Peace
Character:Self
Release Date:01/04/2009
A Call to Arms
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:13/03/2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Character:Self
Release Date:16/02/2009
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Character:Mark Hunter
Release Date:05/02/2009
Fog City Mavericks
Character:Self
Release Date:24/10/2007
Trumbo
Character:Self
Release Date:10/09/2007
Dinosaurs Alive
Character:Narrator
Release Date:30/03/2007
King of California
Character:Charlie
Release Date:24/01/2007
Black Rain: Making The Film
Character:Self
Release Date:10/10/2006
You, Me and Dupree
Character:Mr. Thompson
Release Date:13/07/2006
The Sentinel
Character:Pete Garrison
Release Date:19/04/2006
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:13/09/2005
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:02/09/2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/03/2005
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Character:Self
Release Date:26/10/2004
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Character:Self
Release Date:26/10/2004
Tell Them Who You Are
Character:Self
Release Date:06/09/2004
Declaration of Independence
Character:Self
Release Date:10/06/2003
The In-Laws
Character:Steve Tobias
Release Date:23/05/2003
It Runs in the Family
Character:Alex Gromberg
Release Date:25/04/2003
Direct Order
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/04/2003
Don't Say a Word
Character:Dr. Nathan Conrad
Release Date:28/09/2001
In Search of Peace
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:21/09/2001
One Night at McCool's
Character:Mr. Burmeister
Release Date:19/04/2001
Traffic
Character:Robert Wakefield
Release Date:27/12/2000
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Character:Self
Release Date:19/12/2000
The Directors: Milos Forman
Character:Self
Release Date:01/08/2000
Wonder Boys
Character:Grady Tripp
Release Date:22/02/2000
One Day in September
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:22/10/1999
Get Bruce!
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1999
Forever Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1999
A Perfect Murder
Character:Steven Taylor
Release Date:05/06/1998
Completely Cuckoo
Character:Self
Release Date:16/12/1997
The Game
Character:Nicholas Van Orton
Release Date:12/09/1997
The Ghost and the Darkness
Character:Charles Remington
Release Date:11/10/1996
The American President
Character:Andrew Shepherd
Release Date:17/11/1995
Disclosure
Character:Tom Sanders
Release Date:09/12/1994
Falling Down
Character:D-Fens
Release Date:26/02/1993
Basic Instinct
Character:Detective Nick Curran
Release Date:20/03/1992
Shining Through
Character:Ed Leland
Release Date:31/01/1992
The Earth Day Special
Character:Self
Release Date:22/04/1990
If Dolphins Could Talk
Character:Host
Release Date:25/02/1990
The War of the Roses
Character:Oliver Rose
Release Date:08/12/1989
Black Rain
Character:Nick Conklin
Release Date:22/09/1989
cascadeurs de stars
Character:Self
Release Date:18/03/1988
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1988
Electric Blue 29
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1988
Wall Street
Character:Gordon Gekko
Release Date:10/12/1987
Fatal Attraction
Character:Dan Gallagher
Release Date:18/09/1987
A Chorus Line
Character:Zach
Release Date:10/12/1985
The Jewel of the Nile
Character:Jack T. Colton
Release Date:01/08/1985
Romancing the Stone
Character:Jack T. Colton
Release Date:30/03/1984
The Star Chamber
Character:Steven Hardin
Release Date:05/08/1983
It's My Turn
Character:Ben Lewin
Release Date:24/10/1980
Running
Character:Michael Andropolis
Release Date:30/10/1979
The China Syndrome
Character:Richard Adams
Release Date:16/03/1979
Coma
Character:Dr. Mark Bellows
Release Date:06/01/1978
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Character:Self
Release Date:30/03/1976
Hassles and Hangups
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/1973
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:Steven Keller
Release Date:16/09/1972
Napoleon and Samantha
Character:Danny Arlington Williams III
Release Date:05/07/1972
When Michael Calls
Character:Craig
Release Date:05/02/1972
Summertree
Character:Jerry
Release Date:06/06/1971
Adam at Six A.M.
Character:Adam Gaines
Release Date:22/09/1970
Hail, Hero!
Character:Carl Dixon
Release Date:04/10/1969
Cast a Giant Shadow
Character:Jeep Driver (uncredited)
Release Date:30/03/1966
Television Appearances
Franklin
Character:Benjamin Franklin
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character:Self (archive footage)
What If...?
Character:Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
What If...?
Character:Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
Marvel Studios Legends
Character:Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
Visible: Out on Television
Character:Self
Green Eggs and Ham
Character:Guy-Am-I (voice)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character:Self
The Kominsky Method
Character:Sandy Kominsky
GRAND PRIX Driver
Character:Narrator
Ocean Vet
Character:Narrator (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Character:Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Character:Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Character:Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character:Self
Finding Your Roots
Character:
The Jonathan Ross Show
Character:Self
America: The Story of Us
Character:Self
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character:Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character:Self
Celebrities Uncensored
Character:Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Character:Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character:Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character:Self - Guest
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Character:Self
Beckmann
Character:Self
Will & Grace
Character:Detective Gavin Hatch
The Magic Hour
Character:Self
The View
Character:Self
Leute heute
Character:Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Character:Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Character:
Pebble Mill
Character:Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Character:Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Character:Self - Guest
Goldene Kamera
Character:Self
Goldene Kamera
Character:Self - Laudatio
Champs-Elysées
Character:Self
Entertainment Tonight
Character:Self
Wetten, dass..?
Character:Self
The Hollywood Greats
Character:
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Host
People's Choice Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
People's Choice Awards
Character:Self - Winner
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character:Self
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:Steve Keller
CBS Playhouse
Character:
The F.B.I.
Character:Jerry Williams
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Character:Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self - Co-Host
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
The Oscars
Character:Self
This Is Your Life
Character:Self
Bambi
Character:Self
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Audience Member
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
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