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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

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Michael Douglas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 25
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Michael Kirk Douglas
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