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.
Star Trek series, has died, aged 74. The actor portrayed Genghis Khan in the episode titled “The Savage Curtain”, which launched his career in 1969 and made him one of the franchise’s best-loved cult figures.
His cause of death has not been disclosed. The news was announced by his close friend and attorney, Timothy Tau. Following his role in the seminal science-fiction series, Jung appeared in numerous US shows, including M*A*S*H*, Starsky & Hutch and Kung Fu.
He also appeared in John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, Michael Douglas film Black Rain and Darkman, which was directed by Sam Raimi.
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