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.
TV Shows(52)
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
2024
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
2022
What If...?
Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Visible: Out on Television
Self
2020
Green Eggs and Ham
Guy-Am-I (voice)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
The Kominsky Method
Sandy Kominsky
2018
GRAND PRIX Driver
Narrator
2018
Ocean Vet
Narrator (voice)
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
2011
America: The Story of Us
Self
2010
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self
2002
Beckmann
Self
1999
Will & Grace
Detective Gavin Hatch
1998
The Magic Hour
Self
1998
The View
Self
1997
Leute heute
Self
1997
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Pebble Mill
Self
1991
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
The Streets of San Francisco
Steve Keller
1972
CBS Playhouse
Wilson Evans
1966
The F.B.I.
Jerry Williams
1965
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
This Is Your Life
Self
1952
Bambi
Self
1948
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
Movies(111)
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Self
2025
I Am Curious Johnny
Self
2025
Looking Through Water
William
2025
America's Burning
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Self - Actor
2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Downwind
2023
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
2021
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Self
2020
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Self
2020
Deauville et le rêve américain
Self
2020
Forman vs. Forman
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
2019
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Self
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
2019
Avengers: Endgame
Hank Pym
2019
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Hank Pym
2018
Animal World
Anderson
2018
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Guest
2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
The Green Fog
2018
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Self
2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Self - Actor
2017
Unlocked
Eric Lasch
2017
Ken San
Self
2016
Ant-Man
Dr. Hank Pym
2015
Hollywood Banker
Self (archive footage)
2014
Beyond the Reach
Madec
2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
And So It Goes
Oren Little
2014
Last Vegas
Billy Gerson
2013
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2013
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Self
2013
Behind the Candelabra
Liberace
2013
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
Haywire
Alex Coblenz
2011
The Streets of the Invisibles
Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
2011
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
2011
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Self
2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Gordon Gekko
2010
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
2009
Solitary Man
Ben Kalmen
2009
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Uncle Wayne
2009
The Day After Peace
Self
2009
A Call to Arms
Self (voice)
2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
2009
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Mark Hunter
2009
Fog City Mavericks
Self
2007
Trumbo
Self
2007
Dinosaurs Alive
Narrator
2007
King of California
Charlie
2007
Black Rain: Making The Film
Self
2006
You, Me and Dupree
Mr. Thompson
2006
The Sentinel
Pete Garrison
2006
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self
2005
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Self
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2005
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Self
2004
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Self
2004
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
2004
Declaration of Independence
Self
2003
The In-Laws
Steve Tobias
2003
It Runs in the Family
Alex Gromberg
2003
Direct Order
Narrator
2003
Don't Say a Word
Dr. Nathan Conrad
2001
In Search of Peace
Narrator (voice)
2001
One Night at McCool's
Mr. Burmeister
2001
Traffic
Robert Wakefield
2000
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Self
2000
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
2000
Wonder Boys
Grady Tripp
2000
One Day in September
Self - Narrator (voice)
1999
Get Bruce!
Self
1999
Forever Hollywood
Self
1999
A Perfect Murder
Steven Taylor
1998
Completely Cuckoo
Self
1997
The Game
Nicholas Van Orton
1997
The Ghost and the Darkness
Charles Remington
1996
The American President
Andrew Shepherd
1995
Disclosure
Tom Sanders
1994
Falling Down
D-Fens
1993
Basic Instinct
Detective Nick Curran
1992
Shining Through
Ed Leland
1992
The Earth Day Special
Self
1990
If Dolphins Could Talk
Host
1990
The War of the Roses
Oliver Rose
1989
Black Rain
Nick Conklin
1989
cascadeurs de stars
Self
1988
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Self
1988
Electric Blue 29
(archive footage)
1988
Wall Street
Gordon Gekko
1987
Fatal Attraction
Dan Gallagher
1987
A Chorus Line
Zach
1985
The Jewel of the Nile
Jack T. Colton
1985
Romancing the Stone
Jack T. Colton
1984
The Star Chamber
Steven Hardin
1983
It's My Turn
Ben Lewin
1980
Running
Michael Andropolis
1979
The China Syndrome
Richard Adams
1979
Coma
Dr. Mark Bellows
1978
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Self
1976
Hassles and Hangups
Narrator
1973
The Streets of San Francisco
Steven Keller
1972
Napoleon and Samantha
Danny Arlington Williams III
1972
When Michael Calls
Craig
1972
Summertree
Jerry
1971
Adam at Six A.M.
Adam Gaines
1970
Hail, Hero!
Carl Dixon
1969
Cast a Giant Shadow
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
1966