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.
Black Monday,” were watching the 1987 Charlie Sheen headliner “Wall Street” when they realized that there was no limit they could reach in a fictional playground of deep pockets.“Michael Douglas won a best actor [Oscar] for this movie that was billed as a drama, yet his character has a robot butler and he says things like, ‘Lunches are for suckers!’” Cahan recalls. “Looking back, we immediately were like, ‘This silliness is indicative of that era of excess,’ and we felt like we could make fun of that.”The selfish, high-stakes world of stockbrokers let Cahan and Caspe stretch how far their characters would be willing to go for money.
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