Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. He 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.The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas earned his Bachelor of Arts in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series ''The Streets of San Francisco'', for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations. In 1975, Douglas produced ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, earning Douglas his first Oscar as one of the film's producers.
Douglas went on to produce films including ''The China Syndrome'' (1979) and ''Romancing the Stone'' (1984), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and ''The Jewel of the Nile'' (1985). Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's ''Wall Street'' (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (a role he reprised in the sequel ''Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'' in 2010). Other notable roles include in ''Fatal Attraction'' (1987), ''The War of the Roses'' (1989), ''Basic Instinct'' (1992), ''Falling Down'' (1993), ''The American President'' (1995), ''The Game'' (1997), ''Traffic'' (2000), and ''Wonder Boys'' (2000).
In 2013, for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO film ''Behind the Candelabra'', he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Douglas starred as an aging acting coach in the Netflix comedy series ''The Kominsky Method'' (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy. He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with ''Ant-Man'' (2015).
Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism. He sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, is an honorary board member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund and he was appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998. He has been married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000. Provided by Wikipedia
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12by DOUGLAS, MICHAEL E., DOUGLAS, MARLIS R., SCHUETT, GORDON W., PORRAS, LOUIS W.Get access
Published in Molecular Ecology (2006)
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13by MacAulay, Jamie Donald John, Malinka, Chloe Elizabeth, Gillespie, Douglas Michael, Madsen, Peter T.Get access
Published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2020)
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14by Sveegaad, Signe, Teilmann, Jonas, Berggren, Per, Mouritsen, Kim, Gillespie, Douglas Michael, Tougaard, JakobGet access
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16by MacAulay, Jamie Donald John, Malinka, Chloe Elizabeth, Gillespie, Douglas Michael, Madsen, Peter T.Get access
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17by MacAulay, Jamie Donald John, Malinka, Chloe Elizabeth, Gillespie, Douglas Michael, Madsen, Peter T.Get access
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18by Webber, Thomas, Gillespie, Douglas Michael, Lewis, Timothy, Gordon, Jonathan, Ruchirabha, Tararak, Thompson, Kirsten FrejaGet access
Published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2022)
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19by Webber, Thomas, Gillespie, Douglas Michael, Lewis, Timothy, Gordon, Jonathan, Ruchirabha, Tararak, Thompson, Kirsten FrejaGet access
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20by Boisseau, O, Matthews, J, Gillespie, Douglas Michael, Lacey, C, Moscrop, A, El Ouamari, NGet access
Published in African Journal of Marine Science (2007)
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