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.
They then reportedly agreed not to cast Debra in the role. The actor told Variety in 2019 while marking the film’s 35th anniversary that they were scared Debra wouldn’t be fully committed to the role anyway. “We couldn’t get a direct answer whether Debra was committed or not," he claimed. “We had concerns after being down to Mexico with [Ropbert Zemeckis] on locations and seeing how difficult it was going to be. “We were going to need somebody to be a total team player.”Romancing the Stone was released in March 1984.
The film quickly became a box office hit at $115 million worldwide. 1985 saw the release of a sequel called The Jewel of the Nile which saw Michael and Kathleen reprise their roles.
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