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 elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received 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. After leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred as the romantic lead. Douglas reprised this role in the sequel in 1985, The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced. He appeared in the musical A Chorus Line (1985) and the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction (1987). 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). His subsequent film roles included: Black Rain (1989); The War of the Roses (1989); Basic Instinct (1992); Falling Down (1993); The American President (1995); The Game (1997); Traffic and Wonder Boys (both 2000); Solitary Man (2009). 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 aging acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and in the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham, in which he voices Guy-Am-I. He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). He also voiced an alternate version of the character in the MCU animated television series What If...?. Besides his acting career, Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Movie | Blood Knot | 2025 | |
Series | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | 2024-04-11 |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Dr. Hank Pym | 2023-02-15 |
Movie | Downwind | 2023-01-20 | |
Movie | Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son | Self - Actor | 2023-05-14 |
Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Self - Dr. Hank Pym | 2023-07-19 |
Series | Il était une fois Champs-Élysées | Self (archive footage) | 2022-12-21 |
Series | What If...? | Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice) | 2021-08-11 |
Series | Marvel Studios Legends | Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) | 2021-01-08 |
Series | Visible: Out On Television | Self | 2020-02-14 |
Movie | Deauville et le rêve américain | Self | 2020-09-05 |
Movie | Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood | Self | 2020-11-19 |
Movie | Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone | Self | 2020-12-15 |
Movie | Sword-and-Sandal | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
Movie | Avengers: Endgame | Dr. Hank Pym | 2019-04-24 |
Movie | It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019-05-03 |
Series | Green Eggs and Ham | Guy-Am-I (voice) | 2019-11-08 |
Movie | Forman vs. Forman | Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage) | 2019-07-16 |
Movie | Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate | 2019-05-14 | |
Series | GRAND PRIX Driver | Narrator | 2018-02-08 |
Movie | Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Film Festival | Guest | 2018-04-03 |
Movie | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Hank Pym | 2018-07-04 |
Series | The Kominsky Method | Sandy Kominsky | 2018-11-16 |
Movie | Animal World | Anderson | 2018-06-29 |
Movie | Unlocked | Eric Lasch | 2017-04-27 |
Movie | The Untameable Kirk Douglas | Self - Actor | 2017-06-01 |
Movie | Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Himself | 2016-03-11 |
Series | Ocean Vet | Narrator (voice) | 2016-12-14 |
Movie | Ken San | Self | 2016-08-20 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special | Self | 2015-02-15 |
Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest | 2015-03-23 |
Movie | Ant-Man | Dr. Hank Pym | 2015-07-14 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | And So It Goes | Oren Little | 2014-07-17 |
Movie | Hollywood Banker | Self (archive footage) | 2014-10-02 |
Movie | Beyond the Reach | Madec | 2014-09-06 |
Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
Movie | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace | 2013-05-26 |
Movie | Last Vegas | Billy Gerson | 2013-10-31 |
Movie | Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | Self | 2013-09-07 |
Movie | The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
Movie | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 2011-06-27 | |
Movie | The Streets of the Invisibles | Steve Keller (voice) | 2011-10-03 |
Movie | Haywire | Alex Coblenz | 2011-11-01 |
Series | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self | 2011-09-03 |
Movie | My Last Five Girlfriends | No. 3 - Shoe Expert | 2010-03-19 |
Series | America: The Story of Us | Self | 2010-04-25 |
Movie | 14 Actors Acting | Self | 2010-12-08 |
Movie | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Gordon Gekko | 2010-09-20 |
Movie | Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? | Self | 2010-09-28 |
Movie | A Call to Arms | Self (voice) | 2009-03-13 |
Movie | The Day After Peace | Self | 2009-04-01 |
Movie | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Mark Hunter | 2009-02-05 |
Movie | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Uncle Wayne | 2009-05-01 |
Movie | Miloš Forman - What Doesn't Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
Movie | Solitary Man | Ben Kalmen | 2009-09-07 |
Movie | King of California | Charlie | 2007-01-24 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Trumbo | Self | 2007-09-10 |
Movie | Fog City Mavericks | Himself | 2007-10-24 |
Movie | Dinosaurs Alive | Narrator | 2007-03-30 |
Movie | The Sentinel | Pete Garrison | 2006-04-19 |
Movie | Black Rain: Making The Film | Self | 2006-10-10 |
Movie | You, Me and Dupree | Mr. Thompson | 2006-07-13 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | 2005-01-03 |
Movie | A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Himself | 2005-09-02 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Self | 2005-09-13 |
Movie | Tell Them Who You Are | Self | 2004-09-06 |
Movie | The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy | Self | 2004-10-26 |
Movie | The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent | Self | 2004-10-26 |
Movie | Direct Order | Narrator | 2003-04-01 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Movie | It Runs in the Family | Alex Gromberg | 2003-04-25 |
Series | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | 2003-06-04 |
Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 2003-09-08 |
Movie | Declaration of Independence | Self | 2003-06-10 |
Movie | The In-Laws | Steve Tobias | 2003-05-23 |
Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Self | 2002-06-08 |
Movie | Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. | Self | 2002-11-26 |
Movie | One Night at McCool's | Mr. Burmeister | 2001-04-19 |
Movie | In Search of Peace | Narrator (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
Movie | Don't Say a Word | Dr. Nathan Conrad | 2001-09-28 |
Movie | Wonder Boys | Grady Tripp | 2000-02-22 |
Movie | Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' | Self | 2000-12-19 |
Movie | Traffic | Robert Wakefield | 2000-12-27 |
Movie | Get Bruce! | Self | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
Series | Beckmann | Self | 1999-01-25 |
Movie | One Day in September | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 1999-10-22 |
Movie | A Perfect Murder | Steven Taylor | 1998-06-05 |
Series | The Magic Hour | Self | 1998-06-08 |
Series | Will & Grace | Detective Gavin Hatch | 1998-09-21 |
Series | Leute heute | self | 1997-07-23 |
Movie | Completely Cuckoo | Himself | 1997-12-16 |
Movie | The Game | Nicholas Van Orton | 1997-09-12 |
Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
Movie | The Ghost and the Darkness | Charles Remington | 1996-10-11 |
Movie | The American President | Andrew Shepherd | 1995-11-17 |
Movie | Disclosure | Tom Sanders | 1994-12-09 |
Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | 1994-08-14 |
Movie | Falling Down | D-Fens | 1993-02-26 |
Movie | Shining Through | Ed Leland | 1992-01-31 |
Movie | Basic Instinct | Det. Nick Curran | 1992-03-20 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Series | Pebble Mill | Self | 1991-10-14 |
Movie | The Earth Day Special | Self | 1990-04-22 |
Movie | If Dolphins Could Talk | Host | 1990-02-25 |
Movie | The War of the Roses | Oliver Rose | 1989-12-08 |
Movie | Black Rain | Nick Conklin | 1989-09-22 |
Movie | The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen | Self | 1988-01-01 |
Movie | cascadeurs de stars | Michael Douglas | 1988-03-18 |
Movie | Electric Blue 29 | (archive footage) | 1988-01-01 |
Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest | 1988-09-05 |
Movie | Wall Street | Gordon Gekko | 1987-12-10 |
Movie | Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher | 1987-09-18 |
Movie | The Jewel of the Nile | Jack T. Colton | 1985-08-01 |
Movie | A Chorus Line | Zach | 1985-12-10 |
Movie | Romancing the Stone | Jack T. Colton | 1984-03-30 |
Movie | The Star Chamber | Steven Hardin | 1983-08-05 |
Series | Champs-Elysées | Self | 1982-01-16 |
Series | Wetten, dass..? | Self | 1981-02-14 |
Movie | It's My Turn | Ben Lewin | 1980-10-24 |
Movie | Running | Michael Andropolis | 1979-10-30 |
Movie | The China Syndrome | Richard Adams | 1979-03-16 |
Movie | Coma | Dr. Mark Bellows | 1978-01-06 |
Series | The Hollywood Greats | Unknown | 1977-08-04 |
Movie | TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 |
Series | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self | 1975-01-12 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Self | 1975-10-11 |
Movie | When Michael Calls | Craig | 1972-02-05 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Steve Keller | 1972-09-23 |
Movie | The Streets of San Francisco | Steven Keller | 1972-09-16 |
Movie | Napoleon and Samantha | Danny Arlington Williams III | 1972-07-05 |
Movie | Summertree | Jerry | 1971-06-06 |
Movie | Adam at Six A.M. | Adam Gaines | 1970-09-22 |
Series | NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt | Unknown | 1970-08-03 |
Movie | Hail, Hero! | Carl Dixon | 1969-10-04 |
Series | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self - Laudatio | 1966-01-25 |
Series | CBS Playhouse | Unknown | 1966-12-08 |
Movie | Cast a Giant Shadow | Jeep Driver (uncredited) | 1966-03-30 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Jerry Williams | 1965-09-19 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 1962-10-01 |
Series | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 1961-12-11 |
Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Self | 1952-10-01 |
Series | Bambi Awards | Self | 1948-01-01 |