Eric Anthony Douglas was an American actor and stand-up comedian.
26 Facts About Eric Douglas
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Eric Douglas pursued a career in show business but did not attain the same level of success as his father and siblings.
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Eric Douglas's career was overshadowed by his numerous run-ins with the law and problems with alcohol and drugs.
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Eric Douglas's father was Jewish and his mother later converted to Judaism.
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Eric Douglas was the younger brother of Peter Douglas, and his older half-brothers were Michael and Joel Douglas.
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Eric Douglas studied at Pitzer College, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the London Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Eric Douglas made his screen debut in 1971 in A Gunfight, starring his father and Johnny Cash.
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In 1982, Eric Douglas appeared in the NBC television film Remembrance of Love, starring his father.
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Eric Douglas portrayed a younger version of his father's character in flashback scenes.
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Eric Douglas appeared in several films in the 1980s including The Flamingo Kid, Tomboy, The Golden Child, and Honor Bound.
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Eric Douglas appeared in a production of Dale Wasserman's Shakespeare and The Indians at the Music Theatre Conference for the Eugene O' Neill Theatre Center in 1981.
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In 1991, Eric Douglas appeared with his father in "Yellow", the Season 3 finale of the television series Tales from the Crypt.
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Eric Douglas performed in New York City comedy clubs with much of his self-deprecating material coming from his status as the black sheep of the Douglas dynasty.
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On October 30,1994, Eric Douglas was arrested in Los Angeles for cocaine possession.
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In May 1996, Eric Douglas was arrested for possession of a controlled substance when police found eleven vials of crack cocaine and 1,085 Xanax pills in his Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan apartment.
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Eric Douglas pleaded guilty to the charges and was placed on probation and was ordered to complete a drug rehab program.
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Two days later, Eric Douglas was arrested in New Canaan, Connecticut, for disorderly conduct after he attempted to kiss a young girl who was a fellow patient at Silver Hill Hospital, a rehab facility he was in at the time.
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Eric Douglas was cleared of the charges in February 1998.
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In February 1997, Eric Douglas was arrested for DUI after crashing his rental car into two parked cars.
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In 2000, Eric Douglas revealed in an interview that he went into an eight-day coma in 1999 after accidentally overdosing on Xanax.
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In May 2001, Eric Douglas sued his former psychiatrist, Dr William Leader, claiming that Leader prescribed him a combination of prescription drugs that are lethal when combined with alcohol.
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Eric Douglas asserted that Leader, who had been treating Eric Douglas for his drug addictions for ten years, failed to consider his alcohol problem when he prescribed Vicodin, Klonopin, and Xanax.
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Eric Douglas claimed the drugs caused him to feel suicidal and caused an episode of cardiac arrest which led him to require constant care and hospitalization.
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Weeks before his death, Eric Douglas was back in a rehab center in upstate New York.
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Eric Douglas is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
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Eric Douglas's father was later interred with him in 2020 and his mother was interred with them in 2021.