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Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is a retired 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. 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. In 1975, Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, earning Douglas his first Oscar as one of the film's producers. Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy, and The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (a role he reprised in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010). Other notable roles include in Fatal Attraction (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Basic Instinct (1992), Falling Down (1993), The American President (1995), The Game (1997), Traffic (2000), and Wonder Boys (2000). In 2013, for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Douglas starred as an ageing acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best ctor—television series musical or omedy. He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Ant-Man (2015). Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism. He sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, is an honorary board member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund, and he was appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998. He has been married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000. In July 2025, Douglas said that he was largely retired from acting, saying "I realized I had to stop [...] I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set". He added that while he was attached to one additional project and did not fully rule out future projects "if something special came up", he had no plans to work regularly again.
Michael Douglas
Phineas Horton
for Phineas Horton in Captain America and the Invaders
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During WWII, sickly Steve Rogers becomes Captain America via a secret super-soldier serum, but its creator is instantly assassinated. Relegated to a propaganda tour with theatrical sidekick Bucky Barnes, Steve's camp is ambushed by Baron Strucker's Nazi forces. Cap mounts a ferocious defense alongside a lethal Bucky and a brutal, seemingly immortal soldier named "Lucky Jim." Impressed, Sgt. Nick Fury recruits them into the "Invaders," an extraordinary alliance featuring the super-fast Whizzer, the proud Atlantean prince Namor, and a rogue synthetic android named Jim Hammond. Together, they assault a hidden mountain fortress to stop the Axis high command—Hitler, Red Skull, Heinrich Zemo, and Arnim Zola—and rescue Thomas "Toro" Raymond, a mutant boy sharing Hammond's flame powers. The assault succeeds but ends in tragedy. Bucky severely defaces Zola, driving the dying scientist to download his mind into a deadly machine that murders Bucky before being buried in the collapsing ruins alongside a crushed Zemo. Enraged, Captain America boards a nuclear jet piloted by Red Skull, knocking him out before crashing the aircraft into the Arctic Ocean. Bitter over his prior disagreements with the surface world, Namor finds Steve but chooses to permanently encase him in a tomb of ice rather than rescue him. On the fractured front line, Lucky Jim takes a bullet to the head that breaks his mind, sending him into a feral rampage into the northern woods, while a disillusioned Hammond and Toro flee into hiding. Decades later, a mid-credits scene reveals a thawed Steve Rogers awakening in a modern medical bay, greeted by a snarky Tony Stark wearing a red-and-gold mechanical glove. Finally, an end-credits scene shifts to deep space, where an experimental shuttle is bombarded by cosmic radiation before a roaring, flaming hand slams against the cockpit window.
