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He is most known for his iconic screen roles, like his Academy Award-winning turn as Gordon Gekko Wall Street (1987) as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed films Fatal Attraction (1987), The American President (1995), Basic Instinct (1992), Traffic (2000) and Romancing the Stone (1984).
- January 1, 1
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- New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
49 titles. 1. Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) Approved | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History. 6.3. Rate. In 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.
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Michael Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to actors Diana Douglas (Diana Love Dill) and Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch). His paternal grandparents were Belarusian Jewish immigrants, while his mother was born in Bermuda, the daughter of a local Attorney General, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill; Diana's family had long bee...
After receiving his B.A. degree in 1968, Douglas moved to New York City to continue his dramatic training, studying at the American Place Theatre with Wynn Handman, and at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where he appeared in workshop productions of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976) and Thornton Wilder's Happy Journey (1963). A f...
During the annual breaks in the shooting schedule for The Streets of _San Francisco (1972)_, Douglas devoted most of his time to his film production company, Big Stick Productions, Ltd., which produced several short subjects in the early 1970s. Long interested in producing a film version of Ken Kesey's grimly humorous novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo...
A Michael Douglas-IPC Films co-production, The China Syndrome (1979) starred Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, and 'Michael Douglas' and received Academy Award nominations for Lemmon and Fonda, as well as for Best Screenplay. The National Board of Review named the film one of the best films of the year.
Despite his success as a producer, Douglas resumed his acting career in the late 1970s, starring in Michael Crichton's medical thriller Coma (1978) with Genevieve Bujold, Claudia Weill's feminist comedy It's My Turn (1980) starring Jill Clayburgh, and Peter Hyams' gripping tale of modern-day vigilante justice, \\"The Star Chamber\\" (1983). Douglas a...
Douglas' career as an actor/producer came together again in 1984 with the release of the tongue-in-cheek romantic fantasy \\"Romancing the Stone\\". Douglas had begun developing the project several years earlier, and with Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder, the dowdy writer of gothic romances, Danny DeVito as the feisty comic foil Ralphie and Douglas as ...
\\"Traffic\\" was released by USA Films on December 22, 2000 in New York and Los Angeles went nationwide in January 2001. Douglas played the role of Robert Wakefield, a newly appointed drug czar confronted by the drug war both at home and abroad. Directed by Steven Soderbergh and co-starring Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Amy Irving, Dennis Quaid and...
In 2001, Douglas produced and played a small role in USA Films' outrageous comedy \\"One Night at McCool's\\" starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, and was directed by Harald Zwart. \\"McCool's\\" was the first film by Douglas' company Furthur Films. Also in 2001, Douglas starred in \\"Don't Say A Word\\" for 20th Century Fox. The p...
In 2002, Douglas appeared in a guest role on the hit NBC comedy \\"Will & Grace\\", and received an Emmy Nomination for his performance.
In 2004 Douglas, along with his father Kirk, filmed the intimate HBO documentary \\"A Father, A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\\". Directed by award-winning filmmaker Lee Grant, the documentary examines the professional and personal lives of both men, and the impacts they each made on the motion picture industry.
Douglas had a cameo role in Steven Soderbergh's action thriller \\"Haywire.\\" \\"Behind the Candelabra\\" based on the life of musical '70's/80's icon Liberace and his partner Scott Thorson, directed by Steven Soderbergh costarring Matt Damon, premiered on HBO in May 2013. Douglas won an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award as Best Actor in a television m...
Douglas recently starred in and producing the thriller \\"Beyond The Reach\\" directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti costarring Jeremy Irvine and portrays Dr. Hank Pym in Marvel's \\"Ant Man\\" opposite Paul Rudd. It will be his first venture into the realm of comic book action adventure. Most recently he completed a spy thriller \\"Unlocked\\" co-starring N...
Michael Douglas was recipient of the 2009 AFI Lifetime Achievement as well as the Producers Guild Award that year. In Spring '10 he received the New York Film Society's Charlie Chaplin Award.
Douglas has hosted 11 years of \\"Michael Douglas and Friends\\" Celebrity Golf Event which has raised over $6 million for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. Douglas is very passionate about the organization, and each year he asks his fellow actors and to come out and show that \\"we are an industry that takes care of own\\".
Douglas is married to Catherine Zeta-Jones. The couple has one son, Dylan, and one daughter, Carys. Douglas also has one son, Cameron, from a previous marriage.
- September 25, 1944
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an 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 Best 30 films of Michael Douglas. by jacobyjhn-18-315763 | created - 22 Oct 2011 | updated - 22 Jan 2015 | Public. Talented, confident, brash but likeable actor, Michael Douglas, has created many indelible screen characterizations over his amazing career, always with absolute excellence.
Michael Kirk Danilovich más conocido como Michael Douglas (Nuevo Brunswick, Nueva Jersey; 25 de septiembre de 1944) es un actor y productor de cine estadounidense. Ha recibido numerosos elogios, incluidos dos premios Óscar (uno como productor y otro como mejor actor), cinco premios Globo de Oro , un premio Primetime Emmy , el Premio Cecil B ...
1. Blood Knot. Drama, Family | Filming. A father in an attempt to reconnect with his estranged son, invites him to compete in a father-son fishing competition. Director: Roberto Sneider | Stars: Michael Douglas, David Morse, Walker Scobell, Barry Livingston. 2. Reagan & Gorbachev. Drama, History | Announced.
