Michael Kirk Douglas was born on September 25,1944 and is an American actor and producer.
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71 Facts About Michael Kirk Douglas
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Michael Kirk Douglas has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions.
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In 1975, Michael Kirk Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father.
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Michael Kirk Douglas won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he starred as the romantic lead.
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Michael Kirk Douglas reprised this role in the sequel in 1985, The Jewel of the Nile, which he produced.
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Michael Kirk Douglas appeared in the musical A Chorus Line and the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction.
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Michael Kirk Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Michael Kirk Douglas starred as an aging acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and in the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham, in which he voices Guy-Am-I.
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Michael Kirk Douglas has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the films Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers: Endgame, and he will again reprise his role in the upcoming film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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Michael Kirk Douglas voiced an alternate version of the character in the MCU animated television series What If.
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Besides his acting career, Michael Kirk Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's parents met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's father was Jewish and was born Issur Danielovitch.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, and had English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Belgian, and Dutch ancestry.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's uncle was politician Sir Nicholas Bayard Dill, and Michael Kirk Douglas's maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda, as a Member of the Parliament of Bermuda, and as commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's great-grandfather, Thomas Newbold Dill, was a merchant, an MCP for Devonshire Parish from 1868 to 1888, a member of the legislative council and an assistant justice from 1888, mayor of the City of Hamilton from 1891 to 1897, served on numerous committees and boards, and was a member of the Devonshire Church and Devonshire Parish vestries.
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Michael Kirk Douglas attended The Allen-Stevenson School in New York City, Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and The Choate Preparatory School in Wallingford, Connecticut.
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Michael Kirk Douglas received his B A in dramatic art from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, where he was the honorary president of the UCSB Alumni Association.
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Michael Kirk Douglas studied acting with Wynn Handman at The American Place Theatre in New York City.
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On November 24,1969, Michael Kirk Douglas formed his first independent film production company, Bigstick Productions, Limited.
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Michael Kirk Douglas later said that Malden became a "mentor" and someone he "admired and loved deeply".
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In 2004, Michael Kirk Douglas presented Malden with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Michael Kirk Douglas went on to produce the film of the same name with Saul Zaentz.
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Kirk Douglas hoped to portray McMurphy himself, having starred in an earlier stage version, but was deemed too old for the part by his son Michael.
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Michael Kirk Douglas relented, and the lead role went instead to Jack Nicholson, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Michael Kirk Douglas won the Award for Best Picture for producing the film.
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In June 1979, Michael Kirk Douglas appointed Jack Brodsky Executive Vice-president of Bigstick Productions.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's acting career was propelled to fame when he produced and starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone.
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Michael Kirk Douglas reprised his role as Gekko in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010, directed by Stone.
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Michael Kirk Douglas starred in the 1989 film The War of the Roses, which starred Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.
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In 1992, Michael Kirk Douglas had another successful starring role when he appeared alongside Sharon Stone in the film Basic Instinct.
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In 1998 Michael Kirk Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
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On November 19,1997, Michael Kirk Douglas formed his fourth film production company, Further Films.
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In 2000, Michael Kirk Douglas starred in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film Traffic, opposite Benicio del Toro and future wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Michael Kirk Douglas was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
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Michael Kirk Douglas starred in Don't Say a Word, filmed shortly before his marriage to Zeta-Jones.
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Michael Kirk Douglas then starred in and produced the action-thriller The Sentinel in 2006.
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Michael Kirk Douglas was approached for Basic Instinct 2, but he declined to participate in the project.
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Michael Kirk Douglas collaborated with Steven Soderbergh again on the 2013 film Behind the Candelabra, playing Liberace, opposite Matt Damon, centered on the pianist's life.
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Michael Kirk Douglas won SAG and Golden Globe Awards for the performance.
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Michael Kirk Douglas played Hank Pym in the films Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers: Endgame, based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name.
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Michael Kirk Douglas is on the board of selectors of the Jefferson Awards for Public Service.
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In March 1977, Michael Kirk Douglas married Diandra Luker, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat.
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Michael Kirk Douglas was not raised with a religious affiliation, but stated in January 2015, that he now identifies as a Reform Jew.
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Michael Kirk Douglas donated the prize money to activities designed to raise awareness about inclusion and diversity in Jewish life, and to finding innovative solutions to pressing global and community problems.
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Michael Kirk Douglas is a US citizen by birth in the United States and has British citizenship with Bermudian Status through his mother's birth in Bermuda.
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Michael Kirk Douglas stated this prompted her to wear baggy clothing at work.
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Michael Kirk Douglas admits to using coarse language, but categorically denied wrongdoing in a statement.
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In 1980, Michael Kirk Douglas was involved in a serious skiing accident which sidelined his acting career for three years.
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In 1992, Michael Kirk Douglas founded the short-lived Atlantic Records distributed label Third Stone Records.
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Michael Kirk Douglas founded the label with record producer Richard Rudolph, who became the company's president and CEO.
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Parker accused Michael Kirk Douglas of hitting him in the groin with an errant golf ball, causing Parker great distress.
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Knight claimed she was in love with Michael Kirk Douglas and admitted to the offenses, which took place between October 2003 and May 2004.
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Michael Kirk Douglas subsequently confirmed that the cancer was at stage IV, an advanced stage.
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Michael Kirk Douglas has since participated in fundraisers for Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, where he was diagnosed, and the McGill University Health Centre with which the hospital is affiliated.
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Michael Kirk Douglas attributed the cancer to stress, his previous alcohol abuse, and years of heavy smoking.
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In November 2010, Michael Kirk Douglas's doctors put him on a weight-gain diet due to excessive weight loss that left him weak.
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Michael Kirk Douglas said he would require monthly screenings because of a high chance of recurrence within three years.
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In June 2013, Michael Kirk Douglas told The Guardian that his type of cancer is caused by the human papilloma virus transmitted by cunnilingus, leading some media to report this as well.
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Michael Kirk Douglas's spokesman denied these reports and portrayed Douglas's conversation with The Guardian as general and not referring specifically to his own diagnosis.
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In October 2013, Michael Kirk Douglas said he suffered from tongue cancer, not throat cancer.
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Michael Kirk Douglas announced it as throat cancer upon the advice of his physician, who felt it would be unwise to reveal that he had tongue cancer given its negative prognosis and potential for disfigurement, particularly because the announcement came immediately before Douglas's promotional tour for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
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Michael Kirk Douglas is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and is an honorary board member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund.
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Michael Kirk Douglas is a notable Democrat and has donated money to Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, and Al Franken.
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Michael Kirk Douglas has been a major supporter of gun control since John Lennon was murdered in 1980.
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In June 2015, during a visit in Israel to receive the Genesis Prize, Michael Kirk Douglas said the boycott movement against that country is an "ugly cancer".
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In 2009, Michael Kirk Douglas joined the project Soldiers of Peace, a movie against all wars and for global peace.
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Michael Kirk Douglas lent his support for the campaign to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman, who after having been convicted of committing adultery, was given a sentence of death by stoning.
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