Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) is an Oscar-winning American actor and producer who arose to fame as Karl Malden's partner, Insp. Steve Keller in The Streets of San Francisco.
==Biography==
Douglas is the son of the celebrated actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian actress Diana Dill. He married Diandra Luker on March 20, 1977. They had one son, Cameron, born on December 13, 1978. In 1980, Douglas was involved in a serious skiing accident which sidelined his acting career for three years. In September 1992, he underwent treatment for alcohol abuse at Sierra Tucson Center.
 
Michael Douglas after his visit aboard a P-3C Orion, at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, June 19, 2004.
In 2000, after 23 years of marriage, Diandra divorced Douglas, complaining of his womanizing, absenteeism, and not being a proper father to Cameron. Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on November 18, 2000. She is exactly 25 years younger than Douglas (they were both born on September 25). They have two children, Dylan Michael (born August 8, 2000) and Carys Zeta (born April 20, 2003). Despite his previous marital problems Douglas has been an outspoken critic of other celebrities for their divorces, including Julia Roberts, Renée Zellweger, and Brad Pitt, rebuking him for divorcing actress Jennifer Aniston in order to "go hold orphans with Angelina Jolie".[citation needed] Douglas later apologized for his remarks regarding Pitt and Jolie, claiming he had been misquoted.
Douglas is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, is a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and sits on the Board of Directors of the Ploughshares Fund. In 1998 he was appointed UN Messenger of Peace by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
He and Zeta-Jones hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway on December 11, 2003. They acted as co-masters of ceremony in the concert celebrating the award given to Shirin Ebadi.
In 2006, he was awarded an honorary degree (a D.Litt) by the University of St Andrews.
===Career===
Douglas starred in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976. Michael Douglas also received an Academy Award as producer for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975. Although Douglas was a capable actor on Streets, his career was somewhat stagnant after the series, and he only appeared in occasional movies which were usually less than popular (for example, 1979's Running).
 
Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
His fortunes changed when he starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. His role in this hit movie re-introduced Douglas as a capable and likable leading man and finally made him a super-star at the age of 40. The film was followed a year later in 1985 by a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile. In 1987, Douglas starred in Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close and the film became a world-wide hit. Both Douglas and Close attended the same prep school, Choate Rosemary Hall. In 1988, Douglas received another Academy Award, this time for acting in the leading role of Wall Street.
In 1998, Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Douglas continued to be one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood and commands a hefty sum for his roles. After the commercial failure of It Runs in the Family (2003), Douglas did not star in a movie for three years, until The Sentinel in 2006.
==Selected films==
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2007	The Mechanic 	Kevin Bishop 	(announced)
2007	Smoke & Mirrors 	Jean Robert-Houdin 	(announced)
2007	The King of California 	Unknown 	(pre-production)
2006	Racing the Monsoon 	Unknown 	(announced)(co-producer)
2006	The Ride Down Mt. Morgan 	Lyman Felt 	(announced)
2006	You, Me and Dupree 	Mr. Thompson 	
2006	The Sentinel 	Pete Garrison 	(producer)
2004	The Beautiful Country 	Man on TV 	Footage from Wall Street.
2004	Tell Them Who You Are 	Himself 	(documentary)
2003	The In-Laws 	Steve Tobias 	
2003	It Runs in the Family 	Alex Gromberg 	
2003	Direct Order 	Narrator 	(documentary)
2001	Don't Say a Word 	Dr. Nathan R. Conrad 	
2001	In Search of Peace 	Narrator 	(documentary)
2001	One Night at McCool's 	Mr. Burmeister 	(producer)
2000	Traffic 	Robert Wakefield 	
2000	Wonder Boys 	Professor Grady Tripp 	
1999	One Day in September 	Narrator 	(documentary)
1999	Get Bruce 	Himself 	(documentary)
1998	A Perfect Murder 	Steven Taylor 	
1997	The Game 	Nicholas van Orton 	
1996	The Ghost and the Darkness	Charles Remington 	(executive producer)
1995	The American President 	President Andrew Shepherd 	
1994	Disclosure 	Tom Sanders 	
1993	Falling Down 	William "D-Fens" Foster 	
1992	Basic Instinct 	Nick Curran 	
1992	Shining Through 	Ed Leland 	
1992	Oliver Stone: Inside Out 	Himself 	(documentary)
1989	The War of the Roses 	Oliver Rose 	
1989	Black Rain 	Det. Sgt. Nick Conklin 	
1987	Wall Street 	Gordon Gekko 	
1987	Fatal Attraction 	Dan Gallagher 	
1985	A Chorus Line 	Zach 	
1985	The Jewel of the Nile 	Jack Colton 	(producer)
1984	Romancing the Stone 	Jack Colton 	(producer)
1983	The Star Chamber 	Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin	
1980	It's My Turn 	Ben Lewin 	
1979	Running 	Michael Andropolis 	
1979	The China Syndrome 	Richard Adams 	(producer)
1978	Coma 	Dr. Mark Bellows 	
1972	Napoleon and Samantha 	Danny 	
1971	Summertree 	Jerry 	
1970	Adam at Six A.M. 	Adam Gaines 	
1969	Hail, Hero! 	Carl Dixon 	
1966	Cast a Giant Shadow 	Jeep driver 	minor role
==Film quotes==
* "It’s not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another." - as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.
* "You're so sad. You know that, Alex? Lonely and very sad." - as Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction.
==External links==
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*Personal papers of Michael Douglas at the Wisconsin Historical Society - Roughly 45,000 documents on Douglas's personal and professional life
*Michael Douglas at TriviaTribute.com
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