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.
Michael Douglas' 1983 Movie 'The Star Chamber' Being Turned Into a Series with a Gender Twist!
justjared.comThe 1983 movie The Star Chamber, which starred Michael Douglas in the lead role, is being turned into a television series with a gender twist!
Oscar-nominated writer Sheldon Turner is developing the thriller drama for Amazon Studios and he’s producing the series with his Vendetta Productions partner Jennifer Klein.
Deadline reports that the series will follow “a revered female federal appellate court judge in San Francisco. She leads a shadowy group of judges that decide to right the wrongs of the broken legal system as she struggles to balance her obligations to law, to religion and to her family.” In the movie, Michael played a judge in Los Angeles who got involved with a modern-day Star Chamber.
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