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.
Chris Chesser Dies: ‘Major League’, ‘The Color Of War’ Producer Was 74
deadline.comChris Chesser, the independent film and documentary producer whose credits include the hit Charlie Sheen 1989 comedy Major League, died suddenly at his home in Los Angeles on February 2.
He was 74. His death was announced today by his brothers Alan and Steve Chesser. A cause of death was not disclosed. Chesser began his film career in New York in 1974 as an executive in international sales for Columbia Pictures.
He became General Manager of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in 1976. In 1978 he became executive assistant at the newly formed Orion Pictures to co-founder Mike Medavoy, and from 1980 to 1983 he served as Vice President of Production for Marble Arch Productions and head of production for Filmways under George Litto and Bobby Meyers, until the company was acquired by Orion.
As a production executive, Chesser supervised such films as Orion’s Sharkey’s Machine, The Great Santini, Caddyshack, Wolfen, Arthur, Excalibur and Universal’s On Golden Pond.
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