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.
Hero sisters tell of dramatic moment they chased knife thug out of family ice cream shop with chair and pool cue
dailyrecord.co.ukknife- wielding robber from their family ice cream shop armed with a chair and a pool cue.Brave Rosa and Franca Orlandi, aged 61 and 65, saw out masked thug Michael Douglas with the household items after he presented the blade and told Rosa to empty the till.Franca came rushing out the back of the Orlandi and Son parlour in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, holding the chair aloft before the coward scarpered out the door.In a lucky twist police just happened to be outside and gave chase as they were after the cowardly 25-year-old for earlier incidents in which he had robbed a 12-year-old boy and attempted to rob a 16-year-old.Rosa told the Record: "It was near the end of the day this guy just walked in quite friendly with a mask on and said 'hello'.
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