Allabout... DOUGLAS

Michael Kirk Douglas was born on Sept. 25, 1944, in New Brunswick, N.J., to legendary actor Kirk Douglas and the former Diana Dill. Michael has a brother and, by his father and stepmother Anne, two half-brothers. Among the schools Michael attended was the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received a degree in drama.

Douglas’ movie career began with such films as “Hail, Hero!” and “Summertree,” but he attained his initial stardom on television by starring with Karl Malden in the series “The Streets of San Francisco.” During his four seasons on the show, he earned his first Oscar as a producer of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” to which his father had held the screen rights for many years.

In the late 1970s, Douglas acted in “Coma” and “Running,” and both acted in and produced “The China Syndrome.” His films of the early-to-mid1980s included “It’s My Turn,” “The Star Chamber” and “Romancing the Stone” and its sequel “The Jewel of the Nile,” but 1987 was especially good to him. After playing a husband and father whose one-night stand became a horror story (and launched a national conversation about infidelity) in “Fatal Attraction,” he generated a iconic role as ruthless business-takeover artist Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street,” which earned Douglas an Oscar for best actor.

Douglas returns as the title-character acting coach in the third and final season of the Chuck Lorre-produced Netflix comedy-drama series “The Kominsky Method” when it begins streaming Friday, May 28.