American actor and producer Michael Douglas began his film career with a brief uncredited role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966). 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. 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.

Douglas' role of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987) won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. 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. 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.

He shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with his co-actors in Traffic (2000). 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. 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.

For his contributions to the film industry, Douglas won the 2004 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and the 2009 AFI Life Achievement Award.

Film

Feature film Year Title Role Notes 1966Cast a Giant Shadow Jeep Driver Uncredited 1969 Hail, Hero! 1970 Adam at 6 A.M. 1971 Summertree Jerry 1972 Napoleon and Samantha Danny 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Producer only 1978 Coma 1979 Also producer Running 1980 It's My Turn 1983 1984 Romancing the Stone Also producer Starman Executive producer only1985 Also producer A Chorus Line Zach1987 Fatal Attraction Wall Street1989 Black Rain 1990 Flatliners Producer only1991 Stone Cold Producer only; uncredited Double Impact Producer only Eyes of an Angel Executive producer only1992 Shining Through Radio Flyer Executive producer only Basic Instinct 1993 Falling Down Made in America Producer only 1994 Disclosure 1995 1996 Also executive producer1997 Face/Off Executive producer only The Rainmaker Producer only 1998 2000 Wonder Boys Traffic 2001 One Night at McCool's Also producer Don't Say a Word 2003 It Runs in the Family Also producer 2006 Also producer You, Me and Dupree 2007 King of California Charlie2009 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Solitary Man 2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2011 Haywire 2013 Last Vegas 2014And So It Goes Beyond the Reach Also producer 2015 Ant-Man / Ant-Man2017 UnlockedFlatliners Producer only2018Animal WorldAndersonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle Producer onlyAnt-Man and the Wasp / Ant-Man 2019Avengers: Endgame 2023Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2025 Looking Through Water William McKay TBA Post-production

Documentary and short film Year Title Role Notes 1972 American Revolution: The Impossible WarJohn LaurensShort film American Heritage: The Cause of Liberty 1997 Completely Cuckoo HimselfDocumentary 1999 Get Bruce One Day in SeptemberNarrator 2007 Dinosaurs Alive! TrumboHimself 2010 Nuclear Tipping PointNarrator 2013 Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon Yitzhak Rabin Voice; documentary 2024 America's Burning Narrator Documentary

Television

Year(s) Title Role Notes 1969 CBS Playhouse Young Scientist Episode: "The Experiment"; credited as M. K. Douglas 1971The F.B.I. Jerry Episode: "The Hitchhiker" Medical Center Jonathan Crowley Episode: "The Albatross" 1972 When Michael Calls Craig Television film 1972–1976The Streets of San Francisco Inspector Steve Keller Main role; also directed episode: "Spooks for Sale" (1975) 1980Celebrity Challenge of the SexesHimself Season 4 1984Saturday Night Live Host; episode: "Michael Douglas/Deniece Williams" 1986–1987Starman Executive producer only 1988World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood's Stuntmen HimselfTelevision documentary1990If Dolphins Could Talk NarratorThat's What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert HimselfTribute to John Lennon HostHimself Television special 1992Oliver Stone: Inside Out Television documentary 1993Rock the VoteTelevision film 1997Burt Lancaster1998To Life! America Celebrates Israel's 50th Co-host Television specialWhere It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the UnionHimselfTelevision documentary 2000We All Dream of Oz 2001Independence Day 2001 Television film2002Will & Grace Detective Gavin Hatch Episode: "Fagel Attraction"Liberty's Kids Patrick Henry Voice; episodes: "Liberty or Death" & "United We Stand"2003What's Going On? Host Episode: "Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone"; documentary seriesFreedom: A History of US Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin French Episodes: "Revolution" as Benjamin Franklin & "A War to End Slavery" as Benjamin French 2005... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Himself Television documentary 2011Phineas and Ferb Waylon Voice; episode: "That's the Spirit/The Curse of Candace" 2013 Behind the Candelabra Liberace Television film 2014 Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film Himself Documentary 2018–2021 The Kominsky Method Sandy Kominsky Main role 2019–2022Green Eggs and Ham Guy-Am-I Voice; main role 2020 Ratched Executive producer only 2021–2023 What If...? Hank Pym / Yellowjacket / Ant-Man Voice; episodes: "What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?" & "What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?" 2023 Marvel Studios: Assembled Himself Episode: "The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" 2024 Franklin Benjamin Franklin Miniseries; Also executive producer

Stage Year(s) Production Theater Role Notes 1966Bedford Forrest Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Soldier 1969–1970The Whistling Wizard and the Sultan of Tuffet Bil Baird Marionette Theater Understudy 1970–1971Pinkville The American Place Theatre Jerry the Naz

Music video Year Title Artist Note(s) 1985"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"Billy Ocean 2000"Things Have Changed"Bob Dylan

See also List of awards and nominations received by Michael Douglas

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