🎬Michael Douglas

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Dr. Hank Pym		6.5
2	Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)	Self - Dr. Hank Pym		7
3	Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)	Gordon Gekko (archive footage)		5.8
4	Avengers: Endgame (2019) Top 100 by FilmGator	Hank Pym		8.7
5	It Takes a Lunatic (2019)	Self		3
6	Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate (2019)	Self		4.5
7	Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)	Dr. Hank Pym		7.5
8	Animal World (2018)	Anderson		5
9	Unlocked (2017)	Eric Lasch		6.8
10	Ant-Man (2015)	Dr. Hank Pym		7.7
11	Beyond the Reach (2014)	Madec		6
12	And So It Goes (2014)	Oren Little		5.8
13	Last Vegas (2013)	Billy Gerson		6.9
14	Behind the Candelabra (2013)	Liberace		7.1
15	Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013)	Self		7
16	The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers (2013)	Yitzhak Rabin (voice)	-	-
17	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)	(archive footage)		8
18	Haywire (2011)	Alex Coblenz		5.7
19	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)	Gordon Gekko		6.5
20	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)	Mark Hunter		5.8
21	Solitary Man (2009)	Ben Kalmen		5.4
22	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	Uncle Wayne		5.8
23	Trumbo (2007)	Self	-	-
24	King of California (2007)	Charlie		6.8
25	You, Me and Dupree (2006)	Mr. Thompson		6.1
26	The Sentinel (2006)	Pete Garrison		5.8
27	Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema (2005)	Self		9
28	Declaration of Independence (2003)	Self	-	-
29	It Runs in the Family (2003)	Alex Gromberg	-	-
30	The In-Laws (2003)	Steve Tobias		5
31	One Night at McCool's (2001)	Mr. Burmeister		5.3
32	Don't Say a Word (2001)	Dr. Nathan Conrad		7.2
33	Traffic (2000) Oscars 2001	Robert Wakefield		6.9
34	Wonder Boys (2000) Oscars 2001	Grady Tripp		6.4
35	One Day in September (1999) Oscars 2000	Self - Narrator (voice)		6.5
36	A Perfect Murder (1998)	Steven Taylor		6.4
37	The Game (1997)	Nicholas Van Orton		7.6
38	The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)	Charles Remington		7.5
39	The American President (1995)	Andrew Shepherd		6.6
40	Disclosure (1994)	Tom Sanders		6.1
41	Falling Down (1993)	D-Fens		7.6
42	Shining Through (1992)	Ed Leland		7.5
43	Basic Instinct (1992)	Detective Nick Curran		6.7
44	The War of the Roses (1989)	Oliver Rose		7.1
45	Black Rain (1989)	Nick Conklin		6.1
46	Wall Street (1987)	Gordon Gekko		7.1
47	Fatal Attraction (1987)	Dan Gallagher		7
48	The Jewel of the Nile (1985)	Jack T. Colton		6.3
49	Romancing the Stone (1984)	Jack T. Colton		6.9
50	The Star Chamber (1983)	Steven Hardin		6
51	The China Syndrome (1979)	Richard Adams		7
52	Coma (1978)	Dr. Mark Bellows		6.3
53	When Michael Calls (1972)	Craig	-	-
54	Adam at Six A.M. (1970)	Adam Gaines		7
55	Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)	Jeep Driver (uncredited)	-	-