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.
‘The Nanny’ and ‘Romancing the Stone’ actor Zack Norman dead at 83
nypost.compaid tribute to her father in a Facebook post.“Wherever you drifted off to, I know everything just got livelier,” she wrote. “You were the most enigmatic person wherever you went.
The best father, husband, grandfather and friend, you brought so many laughs and so much enrichment to all of our lives.”Born Howard Jerrold Zuker in Boston, Mass., Norman was a renaissance man, having been a musician, comedian, actor, producer and art collector over the course of a six-decade-long career.
After appearing in off-Broadway plays during the 1960s, and then forging a successful career as a touring stand-up comic, he segued into films — especially those of director Henry Jaglom, such as “Tracks” (1977), “Sitting Ducks” (1980) and “Babyfever.” Most famously, he played antiques dealer Cousin Ira in Robert Zemeckis’ “Romancing the Stone,” with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and Harry in 1990’s “Cadillac Man,” with Robin Williams and Fran Drescher.Several years later, Norman guest starred three times on Drescher’s popular sit-com “The Nanny.” He also appeared on episodes of “The A-Team” and “Baywatch.”As a producer and financier, Norman worked on “Hearts and Minds,” the 1974 film that won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, which was a personal highlight of his lengthy and varied resume.“My most proud movie was 1975’s Academy Award [winner] for the Best Documentary called ‘Hearts and Minds’, which is really very, very, very important and part of the reason that the Vietnam War was stopped,” he told the “Not Real Art” podcast in January 2023. “What a life.” In the 1970s, Norman also developed a passion for art.
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