Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and 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 received 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.
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director, philanthropist and author. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.
Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films. Douglas was known for his explosive acting style, which he displayed as a criminal defense attorney in Town Without Pity (1961).
Catherine Zeta-Jones gushes about late father-in-law Kirk Douglas: 'A man of such strength'
foxnews.comCatherine Zeta-Jones is opening up about what it was like to be the daughter-in-law of the late Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas.
The beloved actor, producer and humanitarian died at the age of 103 on Feb. 5. In a recent video interview with British television show Lorraine, the actress, who is married to Kirk's son Michael, gushed about her memories spent with the star. "He was such a man of strength," Zeta-Jones said of Kirk Douglas.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas on the red carpet at the 2019 Golden Globes. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) "When you meet him he's one of those men that he's everything you expect a movie star to be," she continued.
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