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.
James Henerson, Writer on 'I Dream of Jeannie' and 'Bewitched,' Dies at 84
hollywoodreporter.comJames Henerson, an Emmy-nominated writer and producer who worked on such shows asI Dream of Jeannie,BewitchedandThe Flying Nun, has died.
He was 84. Henerson died Thursday in his sleep at his home in Sherman Oaks, his sons, Matthew and Evan, announced. A staff writer for the famed TV studio Screen Gems, Henerson also wrote episodes ofThe Partridge Family, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries,Combat!,National Velvet,Love on a Rooftop,Bob & Carol & Ted & AliceandThe Second Hundred Years.
With partners Jim Hirsch and Michael Douglas, he produced the 1986-87 ABC seriesStarman,which starred Robert Hays and was based on the John Carpenter-directed film.
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