Quick Facts
- NAME: Michael Douglas
- OCCUPATION: Actor
- BIRTH DATE: September 25, 1944 (Age: 67)
- EDUCATION: University of California, Santa Barbara
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New Brunswick, New Jersey
- ZODIAC SIGN: Libra
Best Known For
Actor Michael Douglas starred in TV's Streets of San Francisco before hitting the big screen with roles in Wall Street, Fatal Attraction and Wonder Boys.
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Synopsis
Michael Douglas was born September 25, 1944, son of movie star Kirk Douglas. He gained fame starring in the cop show Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977). Then his film career took off, with The China Syndrome (1979), Romancing the Stone (1984) and Wall Street (1987),
Quotes
As Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: "Greed is good."
for which he won an Academy Award. Later films include Fatal Attraction (1987), Basic Instinct (1992) and Wonder Boys (2000).
Early Career
Actor, producer, director. Born Michael Kirk Douglas, on September 25, 1944, to actor Kirk Douglas and mother Diana Dill. He is the brother of Joel, Peter, and Eric.
Douglas studied drama at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the American Place Theatre. He began his Hollywood career as an assistant director on some of father Kirk Douglas' 1960s films. After roles in several TV dramas, he gained notoriety by costarring with Karl Malden in the 1970s television series The Streets of San Francisco (ABC, 1972-77). He also directed two episodes of the show. In 1975, Douglas was executive producer for Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which won five Academy Awards including Best Picture. In 1979 he co-produced and starred with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome.
Career Highlights
Douglas landed his first leading man role in Romancing the Stone (1984), portraying Jack Colton, an Indiana Jones-type adventurer. This successful teaming of Douglas with Danny DeVito and Kathleen Turner led to a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile (1985). The three worked again in The War of the Roses (1989), a black comedy about an ugly divorce.
He made two films in 1987 which reflected a much darker side: Fatal Attraction, in which he played an adulterer stalked by an ex-lover (played by Glenn Close); and co-starred in Oliver Stone's Wall Street as the corporate raider Gordon Gekko, whose trademark slogan is "Greed is good." Douglas won a Best Actor Academy Award for this role. In 1992 he continued exploring his dark side by co-starring with Sharon Stone in the thriller Basic Instinct.
In 1988, Douglas formed a production company, Stonebridge Entertainment, Inc., which produced Joel Schumacher's Flatliners (1990) and Richard Donner's Radio Flyer (1992). In 1993 he produced Made in America, then starred as a sexually harassed man in Michael Crichton's Disclosure (1994), and as the titular Chief Executive Officer in Rob Reiner's The American President (1995), co-starring Annette Bening.
He signed a development deal at Paramount in 1994, which included The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), The Game (1997) and A Perfect Murder (1998). He executive-produced The Rainmaker (1997) starring Matt Damon, and John Woo's action film Face/Off (1997). Douglas earned critical acclaim for his starring role as a rumpled novelist and English professor in Wonder Boys (2000). In the fall of 2001, Douglas headlined the thriller Don't Say a Word. Two years later, Douglas starred in It Runs in the Family (2003), alongside his dad, Kirk; his mom, Diana; and his son, Cameron. The film, which fared poorly at the box
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