Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) is an Oscar-winning American actor and producer, who found fame as Karl Malden's sidekick and college educated police officer, Inspector Steve Keller on The Streets of San Francisco. After he left Streets, like his 2 predecessors (who happened to be Karl Malden, who is his friend), he went on to have a successful movie career. He is the son of actor Kirk Douglas, also a movie actor.

Professional

Douglas starred in the long-running TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976. Michael Douglas also received an Academy Award as producer for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975. Although Douglas was a capable actor on Streets, his career was somewhat stagnant after the series, and he only appeared in occasional movies which were usually less than popular (for example, 1979's Running). His fortunes changed when he starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. His role in this hit movie re-introduced Douglas as a capable and likable leading man and finally made him a super-star at the age of 40. The film was followed a year later in 1985 by a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile. In 1987, Douglas starred in Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close and the film became a world-wide hit. Both Douglas and Close attended the same prep school, Choate Rosemary Hall. In 1988, Douglas received another Academy Award, this time for acting in the leading role of Wall Street.

In 1998, Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. ^*

Douglas continued to be one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood and commands a hefty sum for his roles. After the commercial failure of It Runs in the Family (2003), Douglas did not star in a movie for three years, until "The Sentinel" in 2006.

Personal

Douglas is the son of the celebrated actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian actress Diana Dill. He married Diandra Luker on 20 March 1977. They had one son, Cameron, born on December 13, 1978. In 1980, Douglas was involved in a serious skiing accident which sidelined his acting career for three years. In September of 1992, he underwent treatment for alcohol abuse at Sierra Tucson Center. In 2000, after 23 years of marriage, Diandra divorced Douglas, complaining of his womanizing, absenteeism, and not being a proper father to Cameron. Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on November 18, 2000. She is exactly 25 years younger than Douglas (they were both born on September 25). They have two children, Dylan (born August 8, 2000) and Carys (born April 20, 2003). ^*. Despite his previous marital problems Douglas has been an outspoken critic of other celebrities for their divorces, including Julia Roberts, Renée Zellweger, and Brad Pitt, rebuking him for divorcing actress Jennifer Aniston in order to "go hold orphans with Angelina Jolie". Douglas later apologized for his remarks regarding Pitt and Jolie, claiming he had been misquoted.

Douglas is an advocate of nuclear disarmament and a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

He and Zeta-Jones hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway on December 11, 2003. They acted as co-masters of ceremony in the concert celebrating the award given to Shirin Ebadi.

In the 2004 primary elections, Douglas endorsed the unsuccessful candidacy of Rep. Dick Gephardt.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Mechanic	Kevin Bishop	(announced)
	Smoke & Mirrors	Jean Robert-Houdin	(announced)
	The King of California	Unknown	(pre-production)
2006	Racing the Monsoon	Unknown	(announced)(co-producer)
	The Ride Down Mt. Morgan	Lyman Felt	(announced)
	You, Me and Dupree	Mr. Thompson	(post-production)
	The Sentinel	Pete Garrison	(producer)
2004	The Beautiful Country	Man on TV	minor role
2004	Tell Them Who You Are	Himself	(documentary)
2003	The In-Laws	Steve Tobias
	It Runs in the Family	Alex Gromberg
	Direct Order	Narrator	(documentary)
2001	''Don't Say a Word	Dr. Nathan R. Conrad
	In Search of Peace	Narrator	(documentary)
	One Night at McCool's	Mr. Burmeister	(producer)
2000	Traffic	Robert Wakefield
2000	Wonder Boys	Professor Grady Tripp
1999	One Day in September	Narrator	(documentary)
1999	Get Bruce	Himself	(documentary)
1998	A Perfect Murder	Steven Taylor
1997	The Game	Nicholas van Orton
1996	The Ghost and the Darkness	Charles Remington	(executive producer)
1995	The American President	President Andrew Shepherd
1994	Disclosure	Tom Sanders
1993	Falling Down	William 'D-Fens' Foster
1992	Basic Instinct	Nick Curran
	Shining Through	Ed Leland
	Inside Out	Himself	(documentary)
1989	The War of the Roses	Oliver Rose
1989	''Black Rain	Det. Sgt. Nick Conklin
1987	''Wall Street	Gordon Gekko
1987	Fatal Attraction	Dan Gallagher
1985	A Chorus Line	Zach
1985	The Jewel of the Nile	Jack Colton	(producer)
1984	Romancing the Stone	Jack T. Colten	(producer)
1983	The Star Chamber	Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin
1980	It's My Turn	Ben Lewin
1979	''Running	Michael Andropolis
1979	The China Syndrome	Richard Adams	(producer)
1978	Coma	Dr. Mark Bellows
1972	Napoleon and Samantha	Danny
1971	Summertree	Jerry
1970	Adam at Six A.M.	Adam Gaines
1969	Hail, Hero!	Carl Dixon
1966	Cast a Giant Shadow	Jeep driver	minor role

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