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.
Peter White Television EditorChuck Lorre, who is currently writing the third and final season of Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method, was “delighted” to find out that the Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin-fronted series scored an Emmy nod for Outstanding Comedy Series.“It’s a wonderful moment of gratitude in these dark days,” he told Deadline. “I was delighted, I was really happy, it’s terrific to be acknowledged for the work.
It’s been a labor of love, it’s very personal, it means a lot to me.”Lorre has had a “couple of chances at bat” with shows like The Big Bang Theory, which was nominated in the main comedy category four times, but has yet to pick up the main comedy award. “I know it’s a cliché, but it’s nice to be nominated, but it really.
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