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]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow | Jeep Driver | Uncredited | [1] |
1969 | Hail, Hero! | Carl Dixon | [13] | |
1970 | Adam at 6 A.M. | Adam Gaines | [14] | |
1971 | Summertree | Jerry | [15] | |
1972 | Napoleon and Samantha | Danny | [16] | |
1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | — | Producer only | [5] [17] |
1978 | Coma | Dr. Mark Bellows | [18] | |
1979 | The China Syndrome | Richard Adams | Also producer | [5] [19] |
Running | Michael Andropolis | [20] | ||
1980 | It's My Turn | Ben Lewin | [21] | |
1983 | The Star Chamber | Judge Steven R. Hardin | [22] | |
1984 | Romancing the Stone | Jack Colton | Also producer | [23] [24] |
Starman | — | Executive producer only | [17] | |
1985 | The Jewel of the Nile | Jack Colton | Also producer | [24] [25] |
A Chorus Line | Zach | [26] | ||
1987 | Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher | [27] | |
Wall Street | Gordon Gekko | [28] | ||
1989 | Black Rain | Nick Conklin | [29] | |
The War of the Roses | Oliver Rose | [30] | ||
1990 | Flatliners | — | Producer only | [31] |
1991 | Stone Cold | — | Producer only; uncredited | [32] |
Double Impact | — | Producer only | [33] | |
Eyes of an Angel | — | Executive producer only | [34] | |
1992 | Shining Through | Ed Leland | [35] | |
Radio Flyer | — | Executive producer only | [36] | |
Basic Instinct | Detective Nick Curran | [37] | ||
1993 | Falling Down | William "D-Fens" Foster | [38] | |
Made in America | — | Producer only | [39] | |
1994 | Disclosure | Tom Sanders | [40] | |
1995 | The American President | President Andrew Shepherd | [41] | |
1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness | Charles Remington | Also executive producer | [42] |
1997 | Face/Off | — | Executive producer only | [17] |
The Game | Nicholas Van Orton | [43] | ||
The Rainmaker | — | Producer only | [44] | |
1998 | A Perfect Murder | Steven Taylor | [45] | |
2000 | Wonder Boys | Professor Grady Tripp | [46] | |
Traffic | Robert Wakefield | [47] | ||
2001 | One Night at McCool's | Mr. Burmeister | Also producer | [48] |
Don't Say a Word | Nathan Conrad | [49] | ||
2003 | It Runs in the Family | Alex Gromberg | Also producer | [50] |
The In-Laws | Steve Tobias | [51] | ||
2006 | The Sentinel | Pete Garrison | Also producer | [52] [53] |
You, Me and Dupree | Mr. Thompson | [54] | ||
2008 | King of California | Charlie | [55] | |
2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Wayne Mead | [56] | |
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Mark Hunter | [57] | ||
Solitary Man | Ben Kalmen | [58] | ||
2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Gordon Gekko | [28] | |
2011 | Haywire | Alex Coblenz | [59] | |
2013 | Last Vegas | Billy Gherson | [60] | |
2014 | And So It Goes | Oren Little | [61] | |
Beyond the Reach | John Madec | Also producer | [62] | |
2015 | Ant-Man | Hank Pym / Ant-Man | [63] | |
2017 | Unlocked | Eric Lasch | [64] | |
Flatliners | — | Producer only | [65] | |
2018 | Animal World | Anderson | ||
We Have Always Lived in the Castle | — | Producer only | [66] | |
Ant-Man and the Wasp | Hank Pym / Ant-Man | [67] | ||
2019 | Avengers: Endgame | [68] | ||
2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | [69] | ||
2025 | Looking Through Water † | William | Post-production | [70] |
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1972 | American Revolution: The Impossible War | John Laurens | Short film | [71] |
American Heritage: The Cause of Liberty | [71] | |||
1997 | Completely Cuckoo | Himself | Documentary | [72] |
1999 | Get Bruce | |||
1999 | One Day in September | Narrator | [73] | |
2007 | Dinosaurs Alive! | [74] | ||
2010 | Nuclear Tipping Point | [75] | ||
2013 | Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | [76] | ||
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | Yitzhak Rabin | Voice; documentary | [77] | |
2024 | America's Burning | Narrator | Documentary | [78] |
Year(s) | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1969 | CBS Playhouse | Young Scientist | Episode: "The Experiment"; credited as M. K. Douglas | [79] |
1971 | The F.B.I. | Jerry | Episode: "The Hitchhiker" | [80] |
Medical Center | Jonathan Crowley | Episode: "The Albatross" | [81] | |
1972 | When Michael Calls | Craig | Television film | [82] |
1972–1976 | The Streets of San Francisco | Inspector Steve Keller | Main role; also directed episode: "Spooks for Sale" (1975) | [83] [84] |
1980 | Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes | Himself | Season 4 | [85] |
1984 | Saturday Night Live | Host; episode: "Michael Douglas/Deniece Williams" | [86] | |
1986–1987 | Starman | — | Executive producer only | [87] |
1988 | World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood's Stuntmen | Himself | Television documentary | [88] |
1990 | If Dolphins Could Talk | Narrator | [89] | |
That's What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert | Himself | [90] | ||
Tribute to John Lennon | Host | [91] | ||
The Earth Day Special | Himself | Television special | [92] | |
1992 | Oliver Stone: Inside Out | Television documentary | [93] | |
1993 | Rock the Vote | Television film | [94] | |
1997 | Burt Lancaster | [95] | ||
1998 | To Life! America Celebrates Israel's 50th | Co-host | Television special | [96] |
Where It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union | Himself | Television documentary | [97] | |
2000 | We All Dream of Oz | [98] | ||
2001 | Independence Day 2001 | Television film | [99] | |
2002 | Will & Grace | Detective Gavin Hatch | Episode: "Fagel Attraction" | [100] |
Liberty's Kids | Patrick Henry | Voice; episodes: "Liberty or Death" & "United We Stand" | [101] | |
2003 | What's Going On? | Host | Episode: "Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone"; documentary series | [102] |
Freedom: A History of US | Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin French | Episodes: "Revolution" as Benjamin Franklin & "A War to End Slavery" as Benjamin French | [103] | |
2005 | ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Himself | Television documentary | [104] |
2011 | Phineas and Ferb | Waylon | Voice; episode: "That's the Spirit/The Curse of Candace" | [105] |
2013 | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace | Television film | [106] [107] |
2014 | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Himself | Documentary | [108] |
2018–2021 | The Kominsky Method | Sandy Kominsky | Main role | [109] |
2019–2022 | Green Eggs and Ham | Guy-Am-I | Voice; main role | |
2020 | Ratched | — | Executive producer only | [110] |
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?" | [111] |
2023 | Marvel Studios: Assembled | Himself | Episode: "The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" | |
2024 | Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | Miniseries | [112] |
Year(s) | Production | Theater | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1966 | Bedford Forrest | Eugene O'Neill Theater Center | Soldier | [113] [114] | |
1969–1970 | The Whistling Wizard and the Sultan of Tuffet | Bil Baird Marionette Theater | — | Understudy | [115] |
1970–1971 | Pinkville | The American Place Theatre | Jerry the Naz | [15] [116] |
Year | Title | Artist | Note(s) | Ref. |
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1985 | "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" | Billy Ocean | [117] | |
2000 | "Things Have Changed" | Bob Dylan | [118] |