Michael Douglas
Acting
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
Acting167
movieAmerica's Burning
2024
Self - Narrator (voice)
tvFranklin
2024
Benjamin Franklin
movieMarvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
movieMichael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
2023
Self - Actor
movieAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
Dr. Hank Pym
tvIl était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
Self (archive footage)
tvWhat If...?
2021
Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice) / Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
movieCrack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
tvMarvel Studios Legends
2021
Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
tvGreen Eggs and Ham
2019
Guy-Am-I (voice)
movieForman vs. Forman
2019
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
movieAvengers: Endgame
2019
Hank Pym
movieSword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
Self - Actor (archive footage)
tvThe Kominsky Method
2018
Sandy Kominsky
movieAnt-Man and the Wasp
2018
Dr. Hank Pym
movieAnimal World
2018
Anderson
tvGRAND PRIX Driver
2018
Narrator
movieThe Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
Self - Actor
movieUnlocked
2017
Eric Lasch
tvOcean Vet
2016
Narrator (voice)
movieKen San
2016
Self
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Guest
movieAnt-Man
2015
Dr. Hank Pym
tvThe Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Self / Self - Guest
movieHollywood Banker
2014
Self (archive footage)
movieAnd So It Goes
2014
Oren Little
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self - Guest
movieLast Vegas
2013
Billy Gerson
movieThe Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
2013
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
movieBehind the Candelabra
2013
Liberace
movieClose Up
2012
Self (archive footage)
movieFinal Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
(archive footage)
movieHaywire
2011
Alex Coblenz
The Streets of the Invisibles
2011
Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
movieWall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
Gordon Gekko
movieSolitary Man
2009
Ben Kalmen
movieGhosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
Uncle Wayne
movieA Call to Arms
2009
Self (voice)
movieBeyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
Mark Hunter
movieTrumbo
2007
Self
movieDinosaurs Alive
2007
Narrator
movieKing of California
2007
Charlie
movieYou, Me and Dupree
2006
Mr. Thompson
movieThe Sentinel
2006
Pete Garrison
movieNos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Self (archive footage)
movieThe In-Laws
2003
Steve Tobias
movieIt Runs in the Family
2003
Alex Gromberg
tvJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Self / Self - Guest
movieDon't Say a Word
2001
Dr. Nathan Conrad
movieBlonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
2001
Self (archive)
movieIn Search of Peace
2001
Narrator (voice)
movieOne Night at McCool's
2001
Mr. Burmeister
movieTraffic
2000
Robert Wakefield / Self / Self - Guest
movieWonder Boys
2000
Grady Tripp
movieOne Day in September
1999
Self - Narrator (voice)
tvBeckmann
1999
Self
tvWill & Grace
1998
Detective Gavin Hatch
movieA Perfect Murder
1998
Steven Taylor
movieThe Game
1997
Nicholas Van Orton
tvThe View
1997
Self
movieThe Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Charles Remington
movieThe American President
1995
Andrew Shepherd
movieDisclosure
1994
Tom Sanders
movieFalling Down
1993
D-Fens
movieBasic Instinct
1992
Detective Nick Curran
movieShining Through
1992
Ed Leland
movieThe War of the Roses
1989
Oliver Rose
movieBlack Rain
1989
Nick Conklin
movieElectric Blue 29
1988
(archive footage)
movieWall Street
1987
Gordon Gekko
movieFatal Attraction
1987
Dan Gallagher
movieThe Jewel of the Nile
1985
Jack T. Colton
movieRomancing the Stone
1984
Jack T. Colton
Goldene Kamera
1984
Self / Self - Laudatio
movieThe Star Chamber
1983
Steven Hardin
movieIt's My Turn
1980
Ben Lewin
movieRunning
1979
Michael Andropolis
movieThe China Syndrome
1979
Richard Adams
movieComa
1978
Dr. Mark Bellows
tvSaturday Night Live
1975
Self - Host
tvPeople's Choice Awards
1975
Self - Presenter / Self - Winner
movieHassles and Hangups
1973
Narrator
tvThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
Steve Keller
movieThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
Steven Keller
movieNapoleon and Samantha
1972
Danny Arlington Williams III
movieSummertree
1971
Jerry
movieAdam at Six A.M.
1970
Adam Gaines
movieHail, Hero!
1969
Carl Dixon
CBS Playhouse
1966
Wilson Evans
movieCast a Giant Shadow
1966
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
tvThe F.B.I.
1965
Jerry Williams
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
Self / Self - Co-Host
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Presenter
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvBambi
1948
Self
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
Production26
movieAmerica's Burning
2024
Executive Producer
tvFranklin
2024
Executive Producer
tvRatched
2020
Executive Producer
movieWe Have Always Lived in the Castle
2019
Executive Producer
tvThe Kominsky Method
2018
Executive Producer
movieFlatliners
2017
Producer
movieBeyond the Reach
2014
Producer
movieThe Sentinel
2006
Producer
movieIt Runs in the Family
2003
Producer
movieOne Night at McCool's
2001
Producer
movieThe Rainmaker
1997
Producer
movieFace/Off
1997
Executive Producer
movieThe Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Executive Producer
movieMade in America
1993
Producer
movieRadio Flyer
1992
Executive Producer
movieDouble Impact
1991
Co-Producer
movieEyes of an Angel
1991
Executive Producer
movieStone Cold
1991
Co-Producer
movieFlatliners
1990
Producer
tvStarman
1986
Executive Producer
movieThe Jewel of the Nile
1985
Producer
movieStarman
1984
Executive Producer
movieRomancing the Stone
1984
Producer
movieRunning
1979
Executive Producer
movieThe China Syndrome
1979
Producer
Crew2
Directing2
tvTime Team
1994
Director
Editing1
movieLonely are the Brave
1962
Assistant Editor