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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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