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.
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director, philanthropist and author. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.
Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films. Douglas was known for his explosive acting style, which he displayed as a criminal defense attorney in Town Without Pity (1961).
Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael have paid a beautiful tribute following the death of Anne Douglas.
The wife of late Hollywood great Kirk Douglas, died peacefully at her Beverly Hills home less than a week after her 102nd birthday.
The German-born star celebrated her final birthday on April 23. Kirk, who she married in 1954, died in February last year aged 103.
In a statement, her stepson, Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, said: "She brought out the best in all of us, especially our father. "Dad would never have had the career he did without Anne's support and partnership.
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