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.
Edward Hume Dies: ‘The Day After’ Writer, ‘Barnaby Jones’, ‘Streets Of San Francisco’ Creator Was 87
deadline.comEdward Hume, a prolific TV writer who created or developed such 1970s episodic crime classics as The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon and Barnaby Jones, and was Emmy-nominated for the startlingly realistic, much-watched 1983 nuclear holocaust drama The Day After, has died.
He was 87. According to an obituary posted this week by his family, Hume died July 13. A cause was not stated. With his first TV credit coming in 1967 (an episode of The Fugitive), Hume would go on to develop such popular detective and cop fare as Toma (1973); Cannon, the 1971-76 series starring William Conrad; the 1972-77 series The Streets of San Francisco, starring Karl Malden and a young Michael Douglas; and Barnaby Jones, the 1973-80 series starring a post-Beverly Hillbillies Buddy Ebsen as an elderly private eye who comes out of retirement following the murder of his son.
While Hume would write many TV movies in the 1970s and ’80s, including The Terry Fox Story (1983) and John And Yoko: A Love Story (1985), by far his most celebrated was The Day After, a TV movie broadcast on ABC on Nov.
20, 1983, about nuclear war. The film because a cultural touchstone, drawing more than 100 million U.S. viewers. Directed by Nicholas Meyer, The Day After starred Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams and John Lithgow as American survivors of a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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