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Michael Douglas
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Producer, Executive Producer, Actor
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September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, NJ
Biography:Major star, prominent producer, and member of one of Hollywood's most prominent families to boot, "Michael Douglas" is one of Hollywood's biggest movers and shakers. The son of movie icon "Kirk Douglas" and British actress "Diana Dill", Douglas was born September 25, 1944, in New Brunswick, NJ. From the age of eight he was raised in Connecticut by his mother and a stepfather, but spent time with his father during vacations from military school.

It was while on location with his father that the young Douglas began learning about filmmaking. In 1962, he worked as an assistant director on "Lonely Are the Brave", and was so taken with the cinema that he passed up the opportunity to study at Yale for that of studying drama at the University of California at Santa Barbara. At one point he and actor/director/producer "Danny De Vito" roomed together, and have remained friends ever since. Douglas also... Full Biography

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Michael Douglas and Matthew McConaughey attend the Los Angeles premiere of "Ghosts of Girlfriends...
Michael Douglas helps induct Kiefer Sutherland into the 2005 Canada's Walk of Fame at the Elgin...
Catherine Zeta-Jones, left, and Michael Douglas attend the Second Annual A Fine Romance gala in Los...
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas attend the 73rd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on...
Catherine Zeta-Jones, left, and Michael Douglas attend the Ninth Annual Michael Douglas &...
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones attend the BAFTA Awards at Leicester Square in London on...
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones attend the 76th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater...
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