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.
‘The Kominsky Method’: Michael Douglas & Chuck Lorre Talk Hope, Relationships, Prostate Exams & Retirement
deadline.comPeter White Television EditorLast week, Netflix revealed that The Kominsky Method was being retired after its upcoming third season.
But, as discussed in a chat with Deadline, retirement is not something that creator Chuck Lorre or star Michael Douglas are considering.The pair discussed the evolution of the half-hour comedy, which stars Douglas as aging former actor-turned-acting coach Sandy Kominsky and his agent and friend Norman Newlander, played by Alan Arkin from their homes in New York and California.Lorre reveals that the second season storyline of Arkin’s Newland’s budding relationship with Jane Seymour’s Madelyn was based on Tom Poston’s relationship with Suzanne Pleshette, while Douglas talks method acting, having just returned.
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