Michael Douglas
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
Jeopardy!
Self - Clue Presenter
1984
Series
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005
Series
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Series
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
1961
Series
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self
2015
Series
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Film
Avengers: Endgame
Hank Pym
2019
Series
The View
Self
1997
Series
What If...?
Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
2021
Series
What If...?
Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
2021
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
1944
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Series
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self
1988
Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Series
Will & Grace
Detective Gavin Hatch
1998
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Film
Ant-Man
Dr. Hank Pym
2015
Series
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Series
Leute heute
Self
1997
Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Film
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Hank Pym
2018
Series
Bambi
Self
1948
Film
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Series
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Self - Guest
2016
Series
The F.B.I.
Jerry Williams
1965
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Film
Basic Instinct
Detective Nick Curran
1992
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1975
Series
People's Choice Awards
Self - Winner
1975
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Film
The Game
Nicholas Van Orton
1997
Series
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
2011
Series
Marvel Studios Legends
Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Series
Green Eggs and Ham
Guy-Am-I (voice)
2019
Series
Beckmann
Self
1999
Series
The Streets of San Francisco
Steve Keller
1972
Series
Finding Your Roots
2012
Film
Falling Down
D-Fens
1993
Pebble Mill
Self
1991
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Goldene Kamera
Self - Laudatio
1984
Series
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self
2002
Series
This Is Your Life
Self
1952
Series
The Kominsky Method
Sandy Kominsky
2018
Film
A Perfect Murder
Steven Taylor
1998
Series
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
2024
Film
Romancing the Stone
Jack T. Colton
1984
Film
Fatal Attraction
Dan Gallagher
1987
Film
The Sentinel
Pete Garrison
2006
Film
Traffic
Robert Wakefield
2000
Film
The War of the Roses
Oliver Rose
1989
Film
Black Rain
Nick Conklin
1989
Film
Wall Street
Gordon Gekko
1987
Film
Disclosure
Tom Sanders
1994
Film
Last Vegas
Billy Gerson
2013
Film
The Ghost and the Darkness
Charles Remington
1996
Series
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Film
Don't Say a Word
Dr. Nathan Conrad
2001
Film
The Jewel of the Nile
Jack T. Colton
1985
Film
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Gordon Gekko
2010
CBS Playhouse
Wilson Evans
1966
Series
Visible: Out on Television
Self
2020
Film
Unlocked
Eric Lasch
2017
Film
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Uncle Wayne
2009
Film
Haywire
Alex Coblenz
2011
Series
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
The American President
Andrew Shepherd
1995
Film
Beyond the Reach
Madec
2014
Film
Behind the Candelabra
Liberace
2013
Film
A Chorus Line
Zach
1985
Series
The Magic Hour
Self
1998
Series
America: The Story of Us
Self
2010
Film
The In-Laws
Steve Tobias
2003
Film
Wonder Boys
Grady Tripp
2000
Film
And So It Goes
Oren Little
2014
Series
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Film
You, Me and Dupree
Mr. Thompson
2006
Film
Coma
Dr. Mark Bellows
1978
Film
The China Syndrome
Richard Adams
1979
Film
Shining Through
Ed Leland
1992
Film
Looking Through Water
William
2025
Film
One Night at McCool's
Mr. Burmeister
2001
Film
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
Film
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
Get Bruce!
Self
1999
Film
King of California
Charlie
2007
Film
Forever Hollywood
Self
1999
Film
Solitary Man
Ben Kalmen
2009
Film
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Mark Hunter
2009
Film
The Star Chamber
Steven Hardin
1983
Series
GRAND PRIX Driver
Narrator
2018
Film
Animal World
Anderson
2018
Film
The Earth Day Special
Self
1990
Film
Cast a Giant Shadow
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
1966
Film
Fog City Mavericks
Self
2007
Film
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2013
Film
Declaration of Independence
Self
2003
Film
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Film
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Film
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
White Lies
Film
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Self
2025
Film
Dinosaurs Alive
Narrator
2007
Film
It Runs in the Family
Alex Gromberg
2003
Film
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Self
2019
Film
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Self
2020
Film
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
2021
Film
Napoleon and Samantha
Danny Arlington Williams III
1972
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Ken San
Self
2016
The Day After Peace
Self
2009
Film
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
2009
Film
Hollywood Banker
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Completely Cuckoo
Self
1997
Film
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Self - Actor
2017
Film
It's My Turn
Ben Lewin
1980
Film
Black Rain: Making The Film
Self
2006
Film
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Self
2013
Film
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
2000
Film
Trumbo
Self
2007
Film
Running
Michael Andropolis
1979
Film
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self
2005
Film
One Day in September
Self - Narrator (voice)
1999
Film
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
2019
Film
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Self
2004
Film
Deauville et le rêve américain
Self
2020
Film
Summertree
Jerry
1971
Film
When Michael Calls
Craig
1972
Film
Downwind
2023
Film
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
Film
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Self
2005
Series
Ocean Vet
Narrator (voice)
2016
Film
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Self
2017
Film
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
2004
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
Adam at Six A.M.
Adam Gaines
1970
Film
Hail, Hero!
Carl Dixon
1969
Film
The Green Fog
2018
Film
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Self
1976
Film
Forman vs. Forman
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
2019
Film
Hassles and Hangups
Narrator
1973
Film
Electric Blue 29
(archive footage)
1988
Film
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Self
2000
Film
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Guest
2018
Film
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
Self (archive)
2001
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Self
1988
The Streets of the Invisibles
Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
2011
Film
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
2011
Film
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Self
2020
Film
A Call to Arms
Self (voice)
2009
Film
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Self
2004
Direct Order
Narrator
2003
Film
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
2009
Film
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Self - Actor
2023
Film
The Streets of San Francisco
Steven Keller
1972
cascadeurs de stars
Self
1988
Film
In Search of Peace
Narrator (voice)
2001
Film
America's Burning
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Self
2010
If Dolphins Could Talk
Host
1990
Series
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003
Film
I Am Curious Johnny
Self
2025