he won an Oscar for telling us that
greed is good
greed is right greed works welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at the career of Michael Douglas
showdown between the sheriff from the
bad guy dispute
Michael Kirk Douglas was born September
25th 1944 in New Brunswick New Jersey he
was the eldest son of actress Diana dill
and film legend Kirk Douglas but the
pair divorce in his youth
Douglas was then raised by his mother
and spent little time with his father
because of their turbulent relationship
reluctance and stage fright almost
derailed Douglass’s acting career before
he began but he eventually earned a BA
in drama from the University of
California and spent time with his
father on movie sets to learn valuable
talents
Douglas then continued his acting
studies in New York upon graduating
there he secured minor parts in several
small films at the end of the 60s and
into the 1970s in 1972 Douglas landed
his first significant role he spent the
next four years beside Karl Malden on
the television police drama the streets
of San Francisco playing the part of
inspector Steve Keller Mike you ever
stop to think maybe I want to see
someone with a face a little prettier
than yours once in a while aside from
earning him three Emmy Awards that show
allowed him to step behind the camera as
well and this set him up for his next
great success in 1975 Kirk Douglas gave
his son the film rights to Ken Kesey’s
novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
though the younger Douglas decided
against playing the film’s main role he
did co-produced the adaptation that year
with Jack Nicholson as its star the
movie swept all five major categories at
the Academy Awards and this included
Douglass’s Best Picture Oscar Douglas
then stepped back in front of the camera
for a few more films however it was his
producing and acting efforts alongside
Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon in 1979 s the
China Syndrome that earned him further
acclaim
accident and we could have been killed
don’t you think that’s stretching it a
little bit well that’s stretching it a
bit thank you
that smart and highly praised thriller
told the tale of a nuclear power plant
disaster and was ironically released
just 12 days before the Three Mile
Island nuclear meltdown in New York
State the next year Douglas was
seriously injured in a skiing accident
and was unable to work for three years
he made his comeback in the 1984
adventure comedy romance in the stone
and secured his reputation both as a
leading man and as a solid producer I
ain’t sheep I can’t be had a minimum
price for taking a stranded woman to a
telephone is $400 he and his co-stars
Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito
returned for the sequel Jewel of the
Nile the next year
Douglas then rocked the box office in
the horror thriller fatal attraction
before he took on his medius acting role
to that point the point is ladies and
gentlemen that greed for lack of a
better word is good in 1987 Douglas
played stockmarket mogul Gordon Gekko in
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and this
career-defining performance earned him
an Oscar for Best Actor
Douglas continued his winning ways into
the 90s both as a producer and as an
actor however around this time he was
treated for alcohol abuse
despite this his career soon rose to
even higher heights when he starred
opposite Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
and Demi Moore in disclosure never seen
you play the victim before it’s probably
the only good quality you had only
playing the game that way you guys set
it up and I’m being punished for it
throughout the 1990s he chose diverse
projects including acting roles and
falling down the American president the
ghost and the darkness and a game as
well as numerous production credits in
1997 his 23-year marriage came to an
abrupt end he soon became involved with
his traffic co-star Catherine Zeta Jones
who was 25 years younger and the pair
married in 2000 meanwhile Douglas was
praised for his role as a professor and
Wonderboys and appeared alongside his
family in it runs in the family
you slip me all the way down here at
least give me a way that I can drink
that’s that’s a point we’ll take and dad
did you give me a tequila why her Anna
Douglas remained busy but his biggest
victory in recent years came when he
returned to the role of Gordon Gekko in
the sequel Wall Street money Never
Sleeps someone reminded me the other
evening that I once said greed is good
now it seems it’s legal however shortly
before that film’s big screen release
the actor revealed he was battling
throat cancer and had shifted his energy
to focus on family health and
humanitarian causes though he was
originally labeled the next Kirk Douglas
this actor and producer defied critics
by avoiding the macho and all-american
hero performances his father was famous
for instead Michael Douglas spent his
career playing sensitive quiet and
morally compromised roles and this
earned him his own legacy and identity
in Hollywood and greed you mark my words
well not only save Teldar paper but that
other malfunctioning corporation called
the USA thank you very much
greed is good
greed is right greed works welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at the career of Michael Douglas
showdown between the sheriff from the
bad guy dispute
Michael Kirk Douglas was born September
25th 1944 in New Brunswick New Jersey he
was the eldest son of actress Diana dill
and film legend Kirk Douglas but the
pair divorce in his youth
Douglas was then raised by his mother
and spent little time with his father
because of their turbulent relationship
reluctance and stage fright almost
derailed Douglass’s acting career before
he began but he eventually earned a BA
in drama from the University of
California and spent time with his
father on movie sets to learn valuable
talents
Douglas then continued his acting
studies in New York upon graduating
there he secured minor parts in several
small films at the end of the 60s and
into the 1970s in 1972 Douglas landed
his first significant role he spent the
next four years beside Karl Malden on
the television police drama the streets
of San Francisco playing the part of
inspector Steve Keller Mike you ever
stop to think maybe I want to see
someone with a face a little prettier
than yours once in a while aside from
earning him three Emmy Awards that show
allowed him to step behind the camera as
well and this set him up for his next
great success in 1975 Kirk Douglas gave
his son the film rights to Ken Kesey’s
novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
though the younger Douglas decided
against playing the film’s main role he
did co-produced the adaptation that year
with Jack Nicholson as its star the
movie swept all five major categories at
the Academy Awards and this included
Douglass’s Best Picture Oscar Douglas
then stepped back in front of the camera
for a few more films however it was his
producing and acting efforts alongside
Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon in 1979 s the
China Syndrome that earned him further
acclaim
accident and we could have been killed
don’t you think that’s stretching it a
little bit well that’s stretching it a
bit thank you
that smart and highly praised thriller
told the tale of a nuclear power plant
disaster and was ironically released
just 12 days before the Three Mile
Island nuclear meltdown in New York
State the next year Douglas was
seriously injured in a skiing accident
and was unable to work for three years
he made his comeback in the 1984
adventure comedy romance in the stone
and secured his reputation both as a
leading man and as a solid producer I
ain’t sheep I can’t be had a minimum
price for taking a stranded woman to a
telephone is $400 he and his co-stars
Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito
returned for the sequel Jewel of the
Nile the next year
Douglas then rocked the box office in
the horror thriller fatal attraction
before he took on his medius acting role
to that point the point is ladies and
gentlemen that greed for lack of a
better word is good in 1987 Douglas
played stockmarket mogul Gordon Gekko in
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and this
career-defining performance earned him
an Oscar for Best Actor
Douglas continued his winning ways into
the 90s both as a producer and as an
actor however around this time he was
treated for alcohol abuse
despite this his career soon rose to
even higher heights when he starred
opposite Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
and Demi Moore in disclosure never seen
you play the victim before it’s probably
the only good quality you had only
playing the game that way you guys set
it up and I’m being punished for it
throughout the 1990s he chose diverse
projects including acting roles and
falling down the American president the
ghost and the darkness and a game as
well as numerous production credits in
1997 his 23-year marriage came to an
abrupt end he soon became involved with
his traffic co-star Catherine Zeta Jones
who was 25 years younger and the pair
married in 2000 meanwhile Douglas was
praised for his role as a professor and
Wonderboys and appeared alongside his
family in it runs in the family
you slip me all the way down here at
least give me a way that I can drink
that’s that’s a point we’ll take and dad
did you give me a tequila why her Anna
Douglas remained busy but his biggest
victory in recent years came when he
returned to the role of Gordon Gekko in
the sequel Wall Street money Never
Sleeps someone reminded me the other
evening that I once said greed is good
now it seems it’s legal however shortly
before that film’s big screen release
the actor revealed he was battling
throat cancer and had shifted his energy
to focus on family health and
humanitarian causes though he was
originally labeled the next Kirk Douglas
this actor and producer defied critics
by avoiding the macho and all-american
hero performances his father was famous
for instead Michael Douglas spent his
career playing sensitive quiet and
morally compromised roles and this
earned him his own legacy and identity
in Hollywood and greed you mark my words
well not only save Teldar paper but that
other malfunctioning corporation called
the USA thank you very much
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