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.
Jane Fonda disses Robert Redford: ‘Has an issue with women’
nypost.comsting.Jane Fonda revealed Friday she “was in love with” Robert Redford, her on-screen partner for four films — but the “Ordinary People” director, 86, “did not like to kiss” and “has an issue with women.”“He’s always in a bad mood, and I always thought it was my fault,” said Fonda, 85, but added that “he’s a very good person.”The two-time Oscar winner dropped tidbits about her famous male co-stars during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival.
Fonda and Redford co-starred in “The Chase” (1966), “Barefoot in the Park” (1967), “The Electric Horseman” (1979) and “Our Souls at Night” (2017).“The last movie I made with him was six years ago,” Fonda said, referring to the Netflix film “Our Souls at Night.”“What was I, about 80 years old or something like that?
And I finally knew I had grown up. When he would come on the set three hours late in a bad mood, I knew it wasn’t my fault.” Nonetheless, she said, “We always had a good time.”Elsewhere in the conversation, the “Monster-in-Law” alum speculated that her “China Syndrome” co-star Michael Douglas, 78, “probably doesn’t like me.”As for fellow “Cat Ballou” cast member Lee Marvin, she offered kind words. “He was very funny.
He was always drunk. We stayed at the same motel, and they had to carry him up the stairs,” Fonda remembered of the “tough guy” actor, who died in 1987.Fonda also lent her acting chops to the 1972 French-Italian film “Tout Va Bien,” directed by Jean-Luc Godard.She called him “a great filmmaker.
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