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Michael Douglas

1944 - Today

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Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film 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 earned his Bachelor of Arts in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), having acquired the rights to the novel from his father and later earned the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Douglas is the 48th most popular actor (up from 56th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from United States (down from 129th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Actor.

Michael Douglas is most famous for his role as Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Michael Douglas ranks 48 out of 13,578. Before him are Nicolas Cage, Debbie Reynolds, Paul Newman, Charles Bronson, Gina Lollobrigida, and Terence Hill. After him are Christopher Lee, Shah Rukh Khan, Ingrid Bergman, Catherine Deneuve, Harrison Ford, and Chuck Norris.

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Among people born in 1944, Michael Douglas ranks 4. Before him are Danny DeVito, Gerhard Schröder, and Jeff Beck. After him are Omar al-Bashir, George Lucas, Ban Ki-moon, Barry White, John Holmes, Alexander Van der Bellen, Sebastião Salgado, and Jairzinho.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Douglas ranks 133 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Bronson (1921), D. W. Griffith (1875), Isadora Duncan (1877), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Henry David Thoreau (1817), and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929). After him are Noam Chomsky (1928), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), Liliʻuokalani (1838), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), John Adams (1735), and Woody Allen (1935).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Michael Douglas ranks 20. Before him are Jack Nicholson (1937), Dustin Hoffman (1937), Nicolas Cage (1964), Debbie Reynolds (1932), Paul Newman (1925), and Charles Bronson (1921). After him are Harrison Ford (1942), Chuck Norris (1940), Meryl Streep (1949), Will Smith (1968), James Dean (1931), and Steven Seagal (1952).

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