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.
Richard Herd, Mr. Wilhelm on 'Seinfeld', dead at 87
torontosun.comSeinfeld actor Richard Herd has died at the age of 87.The Boston, Massachusetts native passed away from cancer-related complications at his Los Angeles home on Tuesday.Herd was a character actor who was famed for starring as Mr.
Wilhelm on the hit TV comedy.Wilhelm was the boss of Jason Alexander’s character, George Costanza, while he worked for the New York Yankees baseball organization.Herd was also known for movie roles in All the President’s Men, alongside Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, The China Syndrome with Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas, and in Jordan Peele’s 2017 horror film Get Out.Among his other TV credits were 1983 miniseries V and its sequel, V: The Final Battle, police drama T.J.
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