Cast
Michael Douglas
Acting
Cast
Michael Douglas
Known for
Acting
Born
1944-09-25
From
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Also known as Michael Kirk Douglas
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.
★8.2
MOVIE2019
Avengers: Endgame
as Hank Pym
★6.9
MOVIE1992
Basic Instinct
as Detective Nick Curran
★7.1
MOVIE2015
Ant-Man
as Dr. Hank Pym
★6.2
MOVIE2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Dr. Hank Pym
★7.6
MOVIE1997
The Game
as Nicholas Van Orton
★6.9
MOVIE2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp
as Dr. Hank Pym
★7.4
MOVIE1993
Falling Down
as D-Fens
★6.8
MOVIE1984
Romancing the Stone
as Jack T. Colton
★6.5
MOVIE1998
A Perfect Murder
as Steven Taylor
★7.1
MOVIE2000
Traffic
as Robert Wakefield
★6.8
MOVIE1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Charles Remington
★5.7
MOVIE2011
Haywire
as Alex Coblenz
★6.8
MOVIE1987
Fatal Attraction
as Dan Gallagher
★6.4
MOVIE2013
Last Vegas
as Billy Gerson
★6.1
MOVIE2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Gordon Gekko
★6.2
MOVIE1994
Disclosure
as Tom Sanders
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
as Uncle Wayne
★6.9
MOVIE1989
The War of the Roses
as Oliver Rose
★6.2
MOVIE1985
The Jewel of the Nile
as Jack T. Colton
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Black Rain
as Nick Conklin
★6.3
MOVIE2017
Unlocked
as Eric Lasch
★5.9
MOVIE2014
Beyond the Reach
as Madec
★7.2
MOVIE1987
Wall Street
as Gordon Gekko
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Behind the Candelabra
as Liberace
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Get Bruce!
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2001
Don't Say a Word
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
★6.5
MOVIE1995
The American President
as Andrew Shepherd
★6.1
MOVIE2006
The Sentinel
as Pete Garrison
★5.6
MOVIE2006
You, Me and Dupree
as Mr. Thompson
★8.3
MOVIE1999
Forever Hollywood
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1985
A Chorus Line
as Zach
★5.9
MOVIE2001
One Night at McCool's
as Mr. Burmeister
★6.1
MOVIE1990
The Earth Day Special
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2014
And So It Goes
as Oren Little
★7.1
MOVIE1979
The China Syndrome
as Richard Adams
★6.8
MOVIE1978
Coma
as Dr. Mark Bellows
★5.5
MOVIE2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
★7.6
MOVIE2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE2007
King of California
as Charlie
★5.7
MOVIE2009
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Mark Hunter
★6.5
MOVIE1992
Shining Through
as Ed Leland
★6.8
MOVIE2000
Wonder Boys
as Grady Tripp
★5.7
MOVIE1997
Completely Cuckoo
as Self
MOVIETBA
White Lies
★10.0
MOVIE2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1983
The Star Chamber
as Steven Hardin
★6.4
MOVIE1966
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE2003
It Runs in the Family
as Alex Gromberg
★5.4
MOVIE2007
Dinosaurs Alive
as Narrator
★6.0
MOVIE2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
as Self - Actor
★6.3
MOVIE1972
Napoleon and Samantha
as Danny Arlington Williams III
★7.0
MOVIE2018
Animal World
as Anderson
★8.5
MOVIE2007
Fog City Mavericks
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2003
The In-Laws
as Steve Tobias
★6.4
MOVIE2014
Hollywood Banker
as Self (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE2025
Looking Through Water
as William
★6.1
MOVIE2004
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
★3.8
MOVIE2020
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
as Self
★4.9
MOVIE1970
Adam at Six A.M.
as Adam Gaines
★5.3
MOVIE2019
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE2016
Ken San
as Self
MOVIE2000
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
MOVIE2024
America's Burning
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1979
Running
as Michael Andropolis
★5.8
MOVIE1980
It's My Turn
as Ben Lewin
MOVIE2025
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE2009
Solitary Man
as Ben Kalmen
★6.7
MOVIE2007
Trumbo
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2019
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
★6.5
MOVIE2003
Direct Order
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2001
In Search of Peace
as Narrator (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
★7.1
MOVIE2013
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
as Self
★2.0
MOVIE2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE2009
The Day After Peace
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1971
Summertree
as Jerry
★6.6
MOVIE2005
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
as Self
MOVIE1973
Hassles and Hangups
as Narrator
★5.3
MOVIE2019
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE1972
When Michael Calls
as Craig
★7.3
MOVIE2006
Black Rain: Making The Film
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE2023
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
★7.7
MOVIE2003
Declaration of Independence
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1999
One Day in September
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2004
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE2005
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1972
The Streets of San Francisco
as Steven Keller
★6.1
MOVIE2018
The Green Fog
MOVIE1988
Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
★6.5
MOVIE1969
Hail, Hero!
as Carl Dixon
★7.5
MOVIE2013
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
MOVIE1988
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1976
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2025
I Am Curious Johnny
as Self
★7.7
MOVIE2004
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2023
Downwind
MOVIE1988
cascadeurs de stars
as Self
★9.5
MOVIE2012
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
as Self
★7.6
MOVIE2019
Forman vs. Forman
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
★6.8
MOVIE2001
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
as Self (archive)
★4.8
MOVIE2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
MOVIE2020
Deauville et le rêve américain
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2020
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE2011
The Streets of the Invisibles
as Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Once upon a time on Wall Street
as Self
MOVIE2018
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
as Guest
★10.0
MOVIE1990
If Dolphins Could Talk
as Host
★7.4
MOVIE2011
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2009
A Call to Arms
as Self (voice)
MOVIE2010
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
as Self
★8.3
MOVIE2023
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
as Self - Actor
MOVIE2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
as Self (archive footage)