Michael Douglas
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 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 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. 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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The streets of San Francisco.
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The streets of San Francisco. Paramount Pictures.
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The streets of San Francisco. Paramount Pictures ; produced by Quinn Martin.
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The streets of San Francisco. Paramount Pictures ; produced by Quinn Martin.
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One day in September / Sony Pictures Classics ; a Passion Pictures production ; an Arthur Cohn production ; produced by John Battsek & Arthur Cohn ; directed by Kevin MacDonald.
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The game / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents a Propaganda Films production ; a film by David Fincher.
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The game / Universal ; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents ; a Propaganda Films production ; directed by David Fincher ; written by John Brancato & Michael Ferris ; produced by Steve Golin and Ceán Chaffin.
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Romancing the stone / 20th Century Fox ; a Michael Douglas production, a Robert Zemeckis film ; produced by Michael Douglas, Jack Brodsky, Joel Douglas ; written by Diane Thomas ; directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Wall Street / 20th Century Fox ; an Edward R. Pressman production ; an Oliver Stone film ; written by Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone ; produced by Edward R. Pressman ; directed by Oliver Stone.
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The China syndrome / Columbia Pictures presents a Michael Douglas/IPC Films production ; a James Bridges film ; written by Mike Gray & T.S. Cook and James Bridges ; produced by Michael Douglas ; directed by James Bridges.
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The jewel of the Nile / 20th Century Fox ; a Michael Douglas production ; a Lewis Teague film ; produced by Michael Douglas, Joel Douglas, Jack Brodsky ; written by Mark Rosenthal & Lawrence Konner ; directed by Lewis Teague. by Nitzsche, Jack
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Basic instinct / Mario Kassar presents a Carolco/Le Studio Canal+ production, a Paul Verhoeven film ; produced by Alan Marshall ; written by Joe Eszterhas ; directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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Shining through / Twentieth Century Fox ; produced by Howard Rosenman and Carol Baum ; written for the screen and directed by David Seltzer.
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Coma / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Martin Erlichman production ; a Michael Crichton film ; screenplay by Michael Crichton ; produced by Martin Erlichman ; directed by Michael Crichton.
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Wall Street / Twentieth Century Fox presents an Edward R. Pressman production, an Oliver Stone film ; produced in association with American Films and Entertainment Partners L.P. ; produced by Edward R. Pressman ; written by Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone ; directed by Oliver Stone.
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Fantasy Films presents a Milos Forman Film.
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The war of the Roses / Twentieth Century Fox Film Entertainment presents a Gracie Films production ; screenplay by Michael Leeson ; produced by James L. Brooks and Arnon Milchan ; directed by Danny DeVito.
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The American president / Castle Rock Entertainment and Universal Pictures present a Wildwood Enterprises, Inc. production ; a Rob Reiner film ; written by Aaron Sorkin ; produced and directed by Rob Reiner.
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Disclosure / Warner Bros. presents a Baltimore Pictures, Constant C production ; producers, Barry Levinson and Michael Crichton ; director, Barry Levinson ; screenplay, Paul Attanasio.
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Ocean vet. written, directed, filmed & edited, Andrew Smith & Dan Radford ; series producer, Andrew Smith.
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