Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton was born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, United States on September 5th, 1951 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 72, Michael Keaton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), also known as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer, and director.
Mr. Laughter came to fame for his appearances on CBS sitcoms All's Fair and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, as well as his comedic film appearances in Night Shift (1982). Mother (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984), and Beetlejuice (1988).
He received more kudos for his dramatic portrayal of the title character in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). Since then, he has appeared in a variety of films, including dramas and romantic comedies to thriller and action films, including The Dream Team (1990), Multiplicity (2014), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2016), and Minions (2015). Keaton's lead role in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy, as well as nominations for the Screen Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy, and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, as well as the Best Actor Award in a Comedy.
He has been nominated for his appearance in Live from Baghdad (2002) and a Screen Actor Guild Award nomination for The Company (2007).
Keaton received a Career Achievement Award from the Hollywood Film Festival on January 18, 2016; he was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
He is also a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
Early life
Michael John Douglas, the youngest of seven children, was born on September 5, 1951, at Ohio Valley Hospital in Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania. He was raised in McKees Rocks, Coraopolis, and Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. George A. Douglas (1905–1977) lived as a civil engineer and surveyor, as well as his mother, Leona Elizabeth (née Loftus; 1909–2002), was a homemaker who came from McKees Rocks. Keaton was born in a Catholic family. His mother was of Irish descent, while his father was of Scottish, Scotch-Irish, German, and English roots, and he came from a Protestant family. Keaton attended Montour High School in Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. He attended Kent State University, where he appeared in plays, and then moved to Pennsylvania to continue his education.
Personal life
Keaton was married to Caroline McWilliams from 1982-1990. Sean, the couple's son, was born in 1983. He had a brief friendship with actress Courteney Cox from 1990 to 1995.
Keaton, a long-time Pittsburgh resident and supporter of the Pittsburgh sports teams, argued for a break in his Batman movie deal if the Pittsburgh Pirates made the playoffs this year, but the Pittsburgh Pirates did not. During the Pirates' final months of the 2013 season, he also wrote an ESPN blog.
Keaton purchased a ranch near Big Timber, Montana, where he spends a large amount of his time. On Outdoor Channel, an avid fisherman, he is often seen on the saltwater fishing show Buccaneers & Bones, alongside Tom Brokaw, Zach Gilford, Thomas McGuane, and Yvon Chouinard.
In the 2016 US presidential election and Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race, Keaton supported Hillary Clinton for President in the United States presidential election and Joe Biden for President.
In 2019, he appeared in a PETA ad campaign, asking tourists not to visit operations that exploit animals, such as roadside zooos, which may have the ability to capture wild animals.
Career
Keaton appeared on television in Pittsburgh's public television shows Where the Heart Is and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1975). Mister Rogers was one of the "Flying Zooeni Brothers" and spent as a full time production assistant. (Fred Rogers, America's Favorite Neighbor,) Keaton hosted a PBS memorial service in 2004 after Fred Rogers' death.) Keaton performed in Pittsburgh and in the Pittsburgh Poor Players' inaugural scene; he appeared as Rick in the Pittsburgh premiere of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones. During his youth, he performed stand-up comedy to supplement his income.
Keaton left Pittsburgh and landed in Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV roles. He appeared on several famous television shows, including Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. He decided to use a stage name to comply with SAG rules, since there was already an actor (Michael Douglas) and daytime host (Mike Douglas) with the same or similar names. He has replied in response to questions regarding whether he chose his new surname due to an appeal to actress Diane Keaton or in honor of silent film actor Buster Keaton, or both. In several interviews, Keaton said he looked through a phone book under "K," saw "Keaton" and decided not to bother looking. In the Joan Rivers' film Rabbit Test, Keaton's debut appeared in a small non-speaking role.
Jim Belushi's short-lived comedy series Working Stiffs, which showcased his comedic skills and culminated in a co-starring role in Ron Howard's comedy Night Shift. Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski, the fast-talking schemer, made his debut as the Keaton's chief, earning him some critical acclaim.
Night Shift made Keaton become a leading man in the legendary comedy "Mr. X." The mother of a child was treated with universal acclaim. During this period, Keaton was pigeonholed as a comedic lead, as well as films like Johnny Dangerously, Gung Ho, The Squeeze, and The Dream Team, but Keaton was trying to shift to exciting roles as early as 1984, playing as a hockey player in Touch and Go, which was shelved until 1986. In the final film, Woody Allen portrayed Keaton as the lead and reshot his scenes with Jeff Daniels, further delaying his change to drama in the public eye. When Touch and Go was finally released in 1986, the studio was still uncertain how to market the film, including making the poster, trailer, and TV spots similar to Mr.'s. The mother, who resulted in the film not finding its intended audience, was dissatisfied with the film's casting.
1988 was the seminal year in Keaton's career, where he took on two main unconventional roles, forever changing his appearance to viewers. Tim Burton's horror-comedy Beetlejuice named him as the titular character, earning Keaton widespread praise and boosting him to Hollywood's A list. In the same year, he made a breakthrough appearance as a drug-addicted realtor in Glenn Gordon Caron's Clean and Sober.
When Keaton was once more portrayed by Tim Burton, this time as the 1989 comic book superhero of 1989's Batman, his career was given a big boost. Fans who felt Keaton was the wrong choice to portray Batman received thousands of letters. Warner Bros. received thousands of letters of protest from fans who felt it was the wrong choice to portray Batman. However, Keaton's role in the role earned significant attention from critics and fans alike, and Batman became one of 1989's most popular films.
Keaton was not surprised when he first thought of the film as similar to the 1960s television series starring Adam West, according to Les Daniels' reference book Batman: The Complete History. Keaton only understood the darker and brooding side of Batman, which he portrayed to a lot of fan support, after being introduced to Frank Miller's comic book miniseries The Dark Knight Returns. Keaton appeared in the sequel Batman Returns (1992), which was another critical success. He had intended to reprise his role in a third Batman film, even going as far as to turn up for costume fitting. However, Keaton left the film as well as Burton as director of the film. He was apparently dissatisfied with the screenplay that was approved by the new director, Joel Schumacher, according to reports. Keaton refused for the first time after discussions with Schumacher), but Warner Bros. refused to pay him $60 million, but Val Kilmer replaced him in Batman Forever (1995).
Keaton appeared in a number of films during the 1990s, including Pacific Heights, One Good Cop, My Life, and the star-studded Shakespearean story Much Ado About Nothing. In the films Jackie Brown and Out of Sight, he appeared in The Paper and Multiplicity twice and twice in the same role as Elmore Leonard's character Agent Ray Nicolette. Jack Frost produced the family holiday film and the thriller Desperate Measures. In 1994's Speechless, Keaton appeared as a political candidate's speechwriter.
Keaton appeared in a number of films with mixed success in the early 2000s, including Live From Baghdad (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award), First Daughter (playing the President of the United States), White Noise and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Although he continued to get good feedback from the critics, particularly Jackie Brown, he was unable to re-approach Batman's box-office popularity until the introduction of Disney/Pixar's Cars (2006), in which he starred Chick Hicks, a green race car with a mustache, who often loses his patience when losing to his longtime rival, Strip Weathers, a.k.a.a.a. The King, as a Mr. Rogers, America's Favorite Neighbor, appeared on PBS TV special Mr. Rogers on New Year's Day of 2004. Triumph Marketing LLC on DVD, September 28, 2004. He appeared in Game 6, the Boston Red Sox's 1986 World Series bid. He appeared in the Tenacious D short film Time Fixers, an iTunes exclusive. In The Pick of Destiny, Tenacious D was released alongside the 9-minute film. According to reports, Keaton was portrayed as Jack Shephard in the film Lost, with the understanding that Jack's role would be brief. Keaton was the first actor to be a long-running series regular when the role was retooled to be a long-running series regular. Actor Matthew Fox was given the role. The show ran for six seasons, with the Shephard role remaining throughout.
Keaton appeared in the 2007 television miniseries The Company, set during the Cold War, in which he portrayed real-life CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton. Keaton received the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV film or Miniseries. In Toy Story 3 (2010), Ken Aton appeared as Ken. The film attracted largely positive reviews and raised over $1 billion worldwide, making it one of the most financially successful films ever. In June 2010, he declared his intention in returning for a Beetlejuice sequel. In the comedy The Other Guys, he played Captain Gene Mauch. Raymond Sellars, the OmniCorp CEO, appeared as a more prominent antagonist in RoboCop's revival as a more dangerous villain, taking RoboCop's wife and child hostage, forcing Joel Kinnaman's character to fail to meet the 4th directive.
In Alejandro González Ignorance's Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Keaton appeared alongside Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts, a film actor best known for playing the iconic titular superhero who performs in this period of legend. For his portrayal of Thomson in a Musical or Comedy, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Keaton appeared in Tom McCarthy's Academy Award-winning film Spotlight in 2015, and in 2016, he starred as businessman Ray Kroc in the biopic The Founder. On July 28, 2016, Keaton was named as the 2,585th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to film. The actor is located in 6931 Hollywood, Blvd.
In 2017, Keaton appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming, but Keaton was unable to reprise his role as Chick Hicks in Disney/Pixar's Cars 3; instead, Bob Peterson replaced him. Stan Hurley was later depicted in American Assassination by Keaton. He appeared in Tim Burton's live-action version of Dumbo directed by Tim Burton in 2019, co-starring Colin Farrell and Eva Green. In 2020, Keaton appeared in The Trial of the Chicago 7, a legal drama starring Aaron Sorkin about seven anti-Vietnam demonstrators convicted of inciting riots in 1968. In the Netflix biographical drama film Worth, Keaton starred American lawyer Kenneth Feinberg in 2021.
In 2022, Keaton received the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, as well as the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film for Hulu's Dopesick. Keaton cites his success in 1988's Clean and Sober as early preparations for Dopesick. In the SSU film Morbius, which was released on April 1, 2022, he briefly reprised his role as Vulture.
According to reports, Keaton would appear in Goodrich, a film about a man whose second wife suddenly leaves him, causing the actor to assume sole responsibility for their nine-year-old twins. On October 1, 2019, filming was scheduled to begin, directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer. In June 2020, Keaton began talking to reprise his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne in the DC Extended Universe's forthcoming superhero film, The Flash, which is set to be released on June 23, 2023, after last appearing in 1992. It was announced that Keaton would reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in August 2020, but Keaton denied this assertion on October 21 and again on March 22, 2021, insisting that it was not confirmed. However, on April 19, 2021, Keaton's talent company, ICM Partners, officially announced his involvement in the film as soon as it was announced.
He was supposed to reprise his role in Batgirl starring Leslie Grace, the acclaimed DC Universe animated film, with Keaton as the title character's mentor and remote coordinator in the Batcave. In August 2022, the film was cancelled. In a deleted scene, he will also reprise the character from the 2023 planned Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. On May 6, 2022, it was announced that Keaton would star in and direct the noir thriller Knox Goes Away.