Michael Douglas
Acting
Born: September 25, 1944 (age 81) · New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Ant-Man
2015
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
The Game
1997
Face/Off
1997
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
What If...?
2021
Basic Instinct
1992
Falling Down
1993
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
Traffic
2000
Photos (8)
Movies (63)
Avengers: Endgame
Hank Pym
Ant-Man
Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dr. Hank Pym
Basic Instinct
Detective Nick Curran
The Game
Nicholas Van Orton
Falling Down
D-Fens
Fatal Attraction
Dan Gallagher
Wall Street
Gordon Gekko
A Perfect Murder
Steven Taylor
The Ghost and the Darkness
Charles Remington
Traffic
Robert Wakefield
Unlocked
Eric Lasch
Black Rain
Nick Conklin
Romancing the Stone
Jack T. Colton
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Uncle Wayne
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Gordon Gekko
Last Vegas
Billy Gerson
Disclosure
Tom Sanders
The Jewel of the Nile
Jack T. Colton
Haywire
Alex Coblenz
The War of the Roses
Oliver Rose
Beyond the Reach
Madec
The American President
Andrew Shepherd
The Sentinel
Pete Garrison
Behind the Candelabra
Liberace
Don't Say a Word
Dr. Nathan Conrad
Coma
Dr. Mark Bellows
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Mark Hunter
Wonder Boys
Grady Tripp
You, Me and Dupree
Mr. Thompson
The In-Laws
Steve Tobias
And So It Goes
Oren Little
One Night at McCool's
Mr. Burmeister
A Chorus Line
Zach
Shining Through
Ed Leland
Solitary Man
Ben Kalmen
The China Syndrome
Richard Adams
King of California
Charlie
When Michael Calls
Craig
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Looking Through Water
William
Animal World
Anderson
Cast a Giant Shadow
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
The Star Chamber
Steven Hardin
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Napoleon and Samantha
Danny Arlington Williams III
It Runs in the Family
Alex Gromberg
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Dinosaurs Alive
Narrator
It's My Turn
Ben Lewin
Running
Michael Andropolis
Hail, Hero!
Carl Dixon
Downwind
2023
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Adam at Six A.M.
Adam Gaines
The Green Fog
2018
Summertree
Jerry
The Streets of San Francisco
Steven Keller
Hassles and Hangups
Narrator
In Search of Peace
Narrator (voice)
Electric Blue 29
(archive footage)
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Guest
TV Shows (14)
Will & Grace
Detective Gavin Hatch · 1 eps
What If...?
Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice) · 1 eps
What If...?
Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice) · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
4 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
Steve Keller · 119 eps
The F.B.I.
Jerry Williams · 1 eps
Marvel Studios Legends
Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited) · 3 eps
Finding Your Roots
1 eps
Green Eggs and Ham
Guy-Am-I (voice) · 23 eps
The Kominsky Method
Sandy Kominsky · 22 eps
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 8 eps
The Hollywood Greats
1 eps
GRAND PRIX Driver
Narrator · 4 eps
Ocean Vet
Narrator (voice) · 11 eps
Self / Appearances (90)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 2 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 3 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · 1 eps
Jeopardy!
Self - Clue Presenter · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · 3 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 4 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self · 6 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Leute heute
Self · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 5 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · 1 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 1 eps
Beckmann
Self · 1 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 3 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 1 eps
Bambi
Self · 1 eps
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
People's Choice Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
This Is Your Life
Self · 1 eps
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self · 1 eps
Entertainment Tonight
Self · 1 eps
Visible: Out on Television
Self · 5 eps
America: The Story of Us
Self · 7 eps
The Magic Hour
Self · 1 eps
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Self
Forever Hollywood
Self
Fog City Mavericks
Self
Get Bruce!
Self
The Earth Day Special
Self
Hollywood Banker
Self (archive footage)
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Self - Actor
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Self
Completely Cuckoo
Self
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self
Trumbo
Self
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Self
Declaration of Independence
Self
Forman vs. Forman
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Black Rain: Making The Film
Self
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Ken San
Self
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Self - Actor
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Self
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Self
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
Self (archive)
One Day in September
Self - Narrator (voice)
Deauville et le rêve américain
Self
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Self
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Self
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Self
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Self
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Self
A Call to Arms
Self (voice)
I Am Curious Johnny
Self
America's Burning
Self - Narrator (voice)
Celebrities Uncensored
Self · 1 eps
Directing (2)
Producing (26)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Producer
Face/Off
Executive Producer
The Kominsky Method
Executive Producer
Double Impact
Co-Producer
Ratched
Executive Producer
The Rainmaker
Producer
The Ghost and the Darkness
Executive Producer
Franklin
Executive Producer
Romancing the Stone
Producer
The Jewel of the Nile
Producer
Starman
Executive Producer
Beyond the Reach
Producer
Flatliners
Producer
Flatliners
Producer
The Sentinel
Producer
Radio Flyer
Executive Producer
Starman
Executive Producer
Stone Cold
Co-Producer
One Night at McCool's
Producer
Made in America
Producer
The China Syndrome
Producer
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Executive Producer
Eyes of an Angel
Executive Producer
It Runs in the Family
Producer
Running
Executive Producer
America's Burning
Executive Producer
