American actor and producer Michael Douglas began his film career with a brief uncredited role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966).[1] In the same year he played a small role in the play Bedford Forrest. His performance in Hail, Hero! (1969) earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer.[2] He won the 1971 Theatre World Award for Pinkville. During 1972–76, he played the lead role in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco. In 1975, Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe for Best Picture and BAFTA Award for Best Film.[3][4]
Douglas' role of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987) won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.[5] For his portrayal of a fictional American president in the 1995 comedy The American President, he was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[6] His performance in Wonder Boys (2000) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.[7]
He shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with his co-actors in Traffic (2000).[8] He reprised the role of Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for the same.[9] Douglas' portrayal of Liberace in Behind the Candelabra (2013) earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.[10]
For his contributions to the film industry, Douglas won the 2004 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and the 2009 AFI Life Achievement Award.[11][12]
^Fisher, Lise (April 23, 2003). "Douglases team up in 'Family'". The Gainesville Sun. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
^Mulkerrins, Jane (January 13, 2014). "Golden Globes 2014: Over-60s steal the show when it comes to TV". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^"The 48th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^"1977 BAFTA Awards". BAFTA Awards. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^Booker 2011, p. 110.
^"Presidential Movies for Presidents' Day". Golden Globes Awards. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^Walsh, John (May 24, 2013). "Michael Douglas: Hollywood studios didn't believe he could impersonate the outrageously camp Liberace in Behind the Candelabra. They were wrong". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^Pond, Steve (December 14, 2010). "Golden Globes Noms Galore for 'King's Speech' 'The Fighter' & 'Social Network'". TheWrap. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^Singh, Sonalee (July 24, 2015). "'Ant-Man': Find Out How Michael Douglas Was De-Aged For His Newest Film". International Business Times. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^"Past Cecil B. DeMille Winners". Golden Globes Awards. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
^"2009 Michael Douglas Tribute". American Film Institute. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
and 28 Related for: Michael Douglas on stage and screen information
American actor and producer MichaelDouglas began his film career with a brief uncredited role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966). In the same year he played...
with Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls (2000) MichaelDouglasonstageandscreen "MichaelDouglas Realizes Six Year-Old Dream". The Terre Haute Tribune...
television, theatre, and radio credits of Irish-British actor Sir Michael Gambon. Vivaldi – The Four Seasons – Music and Sonnetts (2011) – Michael Gambon, Robert...
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards...
star-studded, high crime promo for On the Run Tour". Daily News. Retrieved May 18, 2014. Jake Gyllenhaal onscreenandstage at IMDb Jake Gyllenhaal at Rotten...
English actor of the stageandscreen. "The Man With The Stolen Heart". Charlotte Film Festival. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved...
Screen Daily. Retrieved January 28, 2015. Miller, Julie (July 26, 2012). "Justin Bartha on Dark Horse, His Dinner Party with Christopher Walken, and The...
American actor and producer Morgan Freeman has had a prolific career on film, television andon the stage. His film debut was as an uncredited character...
(September 27, 2021). "Robert Schwentke's 'Seneca - On The Creation Of Earthquakes' adds international cast". ScreenDaily. Retrieved November 8, 2022. D'Alessandro...
original on March 31, 2019. Yamato, Jen (August 28, 2014). "Jena Malone, Douglas Smith Lead 'Bottom Of The World'; Nick Braun Heads To 'Stanford'; David...
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. He is known for his leading roles in a wide...
Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor who made his screen debut in the 2001 war drama miniseries Band of Brothers as Burton Christenson. Fassbender...
in Law & Order. Waterston went on to become the show's second longest-running cast member. The role won him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding...
2020. Newton, Michael (December 13, 2014). "Charade: The last sparkle of Hollywood". The Guardian. London. Retrieved June 4, 2020. "Screen: 'Father Goose';...
the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020. Johnston, Sheila. "About a Boy". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020...
before being taken on in 1925 by Sybil Thorndike and her husband, Lewis Casson, as a bit-part player, understudy and assistant stage manager for their...
Douglas “Dougie” James Henshall (born 19 November 1965) is a Scottish television, film andstage actor. He is best known for his roles as Professor Nick...
Douglas William Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, director, and musician who has had an extensive career in theatre, as well as television...
The Carry On series is a long-running British sequence of comedy films, stage shows and television programmes produced between 1958 and 1992. Distributed...
American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television andstage. Hanks made his professional acting debut onstage, playing Grumio...
appeared in 22 feature films from 1945 to 1972. In addition to stageand radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s. Lizabeth Scott...
was actor and producer MichaelDouglas. Douglas pursued a career in show business but did not attain the same level of success as his father and siblings...
films. Douglas helped to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit. He produced and starred...
" In between his stage roles, Holloway had a successful film career. He made his silent film debut in 1921 in The Rotters and went on to star in over 60...
Chase. In December 1985, it was reported that Peter DouglasandMichael Phillips were working on developing a film from Isaac Asimov's novel The End of...
Garfield trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and began his career on the UK stageand in television productions. He made his feature film...
Global Information