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.
Hollywood's greatest movie stars - from Meryl Streep and Al Pacino to Michael Douglas
mirror.co.ukOur film critic Chris Hunneysett sparked a heated debate among Mirror movie buffs when he revealed his Top 30 pick of Hollywood actors and screen goddesses.
Scores of you wrote to say you disagreed with his choice of greats, which failed to mention the likes of James Stewart, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford or Sophia Loren.
Here, in no particular order, are your selections of the greatest stars of the silver screen... Sophia Loren No list of screen goddesses can be complete without the No1 actress of all time – the gorgeous, beautiful and talented Sophia Loren.
Ask most men to look at this list and they would be sure to point out this glaring omission. Roger Francis, Gravesend, Kent William Holden I’d like to have seen William Holden
Read more on mirror.co.uk
