Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. In 2016, he was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. Keaton gained early recognition for his comedic roles in Night Shift (1982), Mr. Mom (1983), and Beetlejuice (1988). He gained wider stardom portraying the title superhero in Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). He took roles in Clean and Sober (1988), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Jack Frost (1998), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), and The Other Guys (2010). He also performed voice roles in the animated films Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Minions (2015). Keaton experienced a career resurgence after taking a starring role as a faded actor attempting a comeback in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman (2014), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since acted in biographical dramas such as Spotlight (2015), The Founder (2016), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Worth (2021). He portrayed the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), while also reprising his roles as Man in The Flash (2023) and the title role in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Keaton starred as a journalist in the HBO film Live from Baghdad (2002). He portrayed a drug-addicted doctor in the Hulu limited series Dopesick (2021), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Keaton directed the films The Merry Gentleman (2008) and Knox Goes Away (2023), in which he also played the starring role.

Filmography

• 2027Rode to Ruin — Marshal Henry Tillman, Director, Producer
• 2026The Whisper Man — Frank Carter
• 2025Sweetwater — Robert Rogers, Director
• The American Revolution — Benedict Arnold (voice)
• 2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Beetlejuice
• 2024Goodrich — Andy, Executive Producer
• 2024Knox Goes Away — John Knox, Director, Producer
• 2023Making The Flash: Worlds Collide — Self (archive footage) (uncredited), Thanks
• 2023The Flash — Bruce Wayne / Batman
• 2022A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting — Executive Producer
• 2022Minions & More 2 — Walter Nelson (voice)
• 2022Morbius — Adrian Toomes
• 2022Wings Over Water — Narrator
• Dopesick — Samuel Finnix, Executive Producer
• 2021The Protégé — Michael Rembrandt
• 2021Worth — Kenneth Feinberg, Producer
• 2020The Trial of the Chicago 7 — Ramsey Clark
• 2019Dumbo — V. A. Vandevere
• 2017American Assassin — Stan Hurley
• 2017Spider-Man: Homecoming — Adrian Toomes / Vulture
• 2016The Founder — Ray Kroc
• 2015Binky Nelson Unpacified — Walter Nelson (voice)
• Documentary Now! — Bill Doss
• 2015Minions — Walter Nelson (voice)
• 2015Spotlight — Walter 'Robby' Robinson
• 2014Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — Riggan
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Richard Sackler
• 2014Need for Speed — Monarch
• 2014RoboCop — Raymond Sellars
• 2013Clear History — Joe Stumpo
• 2013Penthouse North — Hollader, Executive Producer
• 2011Hawaiian Vacation — Ken (voice)
• Buccaneers & Bones — Host
• 2010Groovin' with Ken — Ken (voice)
• 2010Ken's Dating Tips: #24 Know Yourself, Be Yourself — Ken (voice)
• 2010Ken's Dating Tips: #31 Play Hard to Get — Ken (voice)
• 2010Ken's Dating Tips: #48 Communication is Key — Ken (voice)
• 2010The Other Guys — Captain Gene Mauch
• 2010Toy Story 3 — Ken (voice)
• 2009Post Grad — Walter Malby
• 2008The Merry Gentleman — Frank Logan, Director
• The Company — James Jesus Angleton
• 30 Rock — Tom
• 2006Cars — Chick Hicks (voice)
• 2006Game 6 — Nicky Rogan
• 2006Tenacious D: Time Fixers — The Professor
• 2006The Last Time — Ted, Executive Producer
• 2005Herbie Fully Loaded — Ray Peyton Sr.
• 2005White Noise — Jonathan Rivers
• 2004First Daughter — President Mackenzie
• 2003Quicksand — Martin Raikes
• 2002Live from Baghdad — Robert Wiener
• 2001Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes — Batman (archive footage)
• 2000A Shot at Glory — Peter Cameron
• 1999Body Shots — Executive Producer
• 1999SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler — Joey (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1998Desperate Measures — Peter McCabe
• 1998Jack Frost — Jack Frost
• 1998Out of Sight — Ray Nicolette (uncredited)
• 1997Inventing the Abbotts — Narrator/Older Doug Holt (uncredited)
• 1997Jackie Brown — Ray Nicolette
• King of the Hill — Trip Larsen (voice)
• 1996Multiplicity — Doug Kinney
• 1994Speechless — Kevin
• 1994The Paper — Henry Hackett
• Frasier — Blaine Sternin
• 1993Much Ado About Nothing — Dogberry
• 1993My Life — Bob Jones
• 1992Batman Returns — Batman / Bruce Wayne
• 1992Earth and the American Dream — Reader (voice)
• 1991One Good Cop — Artie Lewis
• 1991Rabbit Ears - Mose the Fireman — Narrator (voice)
• 1990Pacific Heights — Carter Hayes
• 1990The Earth Day Special — Charles McIntyre
• 1989Batman — Batman / Bruce Wayne
• 1989The Dream Team — Billy Caufield
• The Simpsons — Jack Crowley (voice), Hal Julian (voice)
• 1988Beetlejuice — Betelgeuse
• 1988Clean and Sober — Daryl Poynter
• 1988She's Having a Baby — Michael Keaton (uncredited)
• 1987The Squeeze — Harry Berg
• 1986Gung Ho — Hunt Stevenson
• 1986Touch and Go — Bobby Barbato
• 1984Johnny Dangerously — Johnny Dangerously
• 1983Mr. Mom — Jack
• 1982Night Shift — Bill Blazejowski
• Report to Murphy
• The Mary Tyler Moore Hour
• Working Stiffs — Mike O'Rourke
• 1978A Different Approach
• 1978Rabbit Test — Sailor
• All's Fair — Lanny Wolf
• Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman — The Robber
• The Tony Randall Show — Zeke
• Imagine Agents
• Ken's Dating Tips — Ken

Appearances as themselves (46)

• 2025Clemente — Self
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Actor and Filmmaker
• Tim Burton: Life in the Line — Self
• Superpowered: The DC Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute — Self
• 2022Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home — Self (archive footage)
• The Comedy Store — Self
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — Self - Contestant
• 2018An Evening with Lucia Micarelli — Self - Host
• Basketball: A Love Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Mister Rogers: It's You I Like — Self - Host
• Norm Macdonald Has a Show — Self - Guest
• 2017A Fan's Guide to Spider-Man Homecoming — Self
• 2015Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings) — Self
• 2015Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration — Self - Audition Tape (archive footage)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot — Self
• Inside Comedy — Self
• 2008Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2004Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor — Himself
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2002Jackie Brown: How It Went Down — Self
• 2001America | A Tribute to Heroes — Self
• 2000Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints — Self
• 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — Self
• 1998Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley — Self
• 1998Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory — Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Blockbuster")
• 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• 1992Batman Returns: The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin — Self
• Na siehste! — Self
• 1982Kraft Salutes Walt Disney World's 10th Anniversary — Self
• 1977Mary — Self (Various Characters)
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• Film '72 — Self
• 60 Minutes — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter