Douglas Kennedy
A tall, powerfully built man, Douglas Kennedy entered films after graduating from Amherst. Making his debut in 1940, he appeared in many westerns and detective thrillers, often as a villain. World War II interrupted his career, and he spent the war years as a Signal Corps officer and an operative in the OSS and US Army Intelligence. After the war he returned to Hollywood, where he began playing supporting roles in larger films and an occasional lead in a lower-budget film. He is most fondly remembered, though, by audiences of the 1950s for two roles: his western TV series Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1955), and as one of the policemen taken over by the Martians in the sci-fi classic Invaders from Mars (1953).
Douglas Kidd
Actor Douglas Kidd was born Douglas James Miller in Vancouver, Canada. He has Austrian, Czech, Irish, Scottish, Finnish, French and Swedish ancestry, and is known for playing clever and often wealthy men. An all-around athlete growing up, Kidd excelled at football, wrestling, track & field, soccer, and ice hockey. In his final year at Windsor High School in North Vancouver he was named "Athlete of the Year", won a silver medal at the British Columbia High School Wrestling Championships, and played the title role in a class production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Kidd was awarded a wrestling scholarship at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and competed at tournaments in Canada and the USA during his first two years. Then, while completing a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature, Kidd attended a production of Peter Schaffer's play "Amadeus" at the Vancouver Playhouse as a course requirement. Hurrying through the lobby just a few minutes before the curtain went up, Kidd ran into actor Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables, American Graffiti), and the event inspired Kidd to audition for SFU's Theatre Program. He performed a monologue from "Amadeus" as part of his audition and was invited to join the three-year program. After graduating from SFU, Kidd spent a year performing plays in Montreal, including a production of Ronald Harwood's "The Dresser" for Imago Theatre. Relocating to Toronto, he found more work on stage, including an outdoor production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" by Director Lewis Baumander (who directed Keanu Reeves in "Hamlet" and "Romeo & Juliet"), and acted in over 400 performances of Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" at the Toronto Truck Theatre (billed as "Canada's Longest Running Show"). Kidd also played the title role in "Colonel Quackery's Truly Fabulous Leisure Travelling Sideshow", singing, dancing, and making kids laugh at hundreds of schools across Ontario. In order to play the latter role, Kidd gave up his role as lead singer for The Fringe, a rock band he had auditioned for and performed with live at Toronto nightclubs like the El Mocambo (where The Rolling Stones had once infamously recorded a live album). Kidd also began to get cast in movies, playing the lead role in two low-budget feature films: the Canadian cult classic Psycho Pike (1992), and Psycho Scarecrow (1996), which features a scene in which he performs one of his own original songs. Roles in television followed as well, including a New Orleans reserve officer in an episode of Top Cops (1992), a politician's loyal handler in The Hidden Room (1993), a German reporter in Family Passions (1993), an egotistical socialite in Forever Knight (1995), and a French TV journalist in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1995), featuring David Carradine (Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2). Recently, Kidd has played a determined FBI Agent in the television series The Art of More (2015), featuring Dennis Quaid and Carey Elwes; a suspicious police officer in the thriller Awakening the Zodiac (2017), featuring Leslie Bibb; a threatening doorman at a nightclub in She Never Died (2019); and a Russian mobster in Gutshot (2022).
Douglas Kim
Korean-American actor-writer-producer Douglas Kim was born in Yonkers, New York. He grew up in Westchester County, New York, in a successful and elite educational, first generation Asian-American family. Although naturally introverted, Douglas was always theatrical growing up. He used the escapist side of being and experiencing another life or story outside of his own to overcome his shyness. He learned how to express himself through play acting and imitating famed character actors while also honing his musical artistry by learning the violin and guitar. He fully immersed himself in all formats of storytelling, soaking in movies, listening to a wide array of music and playing role-playing video games. It wasn't until high school that Douglas fully found his passion for the performing arts, and exposed his hidden inner talent for singing and acting. He frequently performed live music and played at an Asian culture show in college. In 2002, while studying economics and computer science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, Douglas began playing poker recreationally. He read books, joined online forums and started using statistical analysis software in order to understand the mechanics of the game, ahead of playing professionally online. Although he graduated Cum Laude and launched a promising career in a New York strategy consulting firm, Douglas continued to play poker. In 2006 he decided to play in the World Series of Poker at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas that August. He finished 7th, at the highly publicized annual event. He took home around $2.4 million dollars, making him, at the time, the youngest player to make the final table at the world-series. Douglas helped pioneer the movement of the young Internet professional poker player into live tournaments, by dominating the media drenched main event. During the financial crisis in 2008, Douglas found himself searching in a new direction. He realized that acting for an Asian within the American media was finally growing beyond the stereotypical roles, and so enrolled in the two year Meisner acting program at the William Esper Studio in New York. On graduating, he began taking specialized classes and expanding his experience by acting in student and short films. He soon realized that in order to pursue acting in film and television, he needed to move to Los Angeles, and moved in late 2012. Dedicated to the entertainment industry, Douglas in 2013 joined a screen writing summer program and took improvisation classes at Upright Citizens Brigade. He made a music video, 'I'm (Asian) American', as a response to how Asian Americans are perceived by Americans and Asians in the community. He became SAG-AFTRA eligible later that year and signed with management firm, Spotlight Entertainment. In February 2014 Douglas assisted in the award-winning short film 'Room 731', as a production coordinator with actor-producer friend Tim Kang. He continued to dabble in music and in May that year, he released the provocative Korean music video 'Forever Hyung' a parody of the Jay-Z song 'Young Forever'. Douglas also served as an executive producer for the film 'Las Vegas Story', a film directed by Byron Qiao. Over the last few years, Douglas has successfully cemented himself as a well-rounded Asian-American actor - writer - producer. He has continued to nurture his chosen craft by attending different conservatories and training studios including: the Scott Sedita Acting Studios for comedy, a summer acting program the prestigious Manhattan Film Institute, audition technique training at Margie Haber Studios and Sketch classes at Upright Citizens Brigade. Douglas is currently writing his debut scripted TV show 'Just Dougie'. The semi-autobiographical show, set in New York, lightly explores the esotericism of an Asian-American former professional poker player and young urban professional transitioning into the entertainment industry. 'Just Dougie' will show viewers a slice of the modern Asian-American life, through a more realistic lens yet to be shown on American television.
Douglas King
Douglas King is a writer and director, known for A Second One Night Stand (2017), Scrubbed (2014) and This is Libby.
Douglas Kirkland
Douglas Kirkland was born on August 16, 1934 in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Willow (1988), Fantastic Four (2005) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001). He is married to Françoise.
Douglas Korb
Douglas Korb is an actor, known for Chasing Rainbows (2014).
Douglas Kumaramoorthy
Douglas Kumaramoorthy is known for Mandela (2021).
Douglas Kung
Douglas Kung is known for Fan sau ji do (2002), Mo ren kuang dao (2001) and Nu ji xie ren (1991).
Douglas Langway
Doug wrote, directed and edited BearCity (2010), BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012) and BearCity 3 (2016), all multiple award-winning breakout hits of the festival circuit, garnering Doug personally the 2010 Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay by the prestigious Los Angeles film festival, Outfest. The Trilogy of films won several other Best Picture awards worldwide and the Outfest Grand Jury's best actor in a feature award. Doug wrote, produced, directed and edited Raising Heroes (1996), the first gay action film, in what the influential online 'zine Film Threat raved was "a non-stop speeding bullet of a picture." The award-winning thriller played film festivals around the world including Outfest, Frameline (San Francisco), and the Edinburgh Film Festival. Doug also appears as himself in Malcolm Ingram's 2010 documentary film Bear Nation (2010), and is a producer of Ingram's 2015 documentary film Out to Win (2015). The BearCity Trilogy and Raising Heroes were released theatrically to rave reviews and sell-out crowds with tremendous support from built-in audiences. Doug resides in Hell's Kitchen, NYC and Wilton Manors, Florida with his husband, Joseph Chapman.
Douglas Larlham
Known for minimalist visual aesthetics, plot-propelling payoffs, and exceptionally well-constructed dialogue, you certainly know a Douglas Larlham film when you're watching one. Douglas is an award-winning Writer, Director, Radio Host, and Comedian. After graduating from the Ohio Center for Broadcasting, Douglas got his start as an entertainer accepting a position at KRAI in Craig, Colorado. In 2008, he was awarded "Best Afternoon Drive Show" from the Colorado Broadcasters Association and felt his Ohio calling him home. Just a year later, radio took him back home to Ohio, where, while working as a co-host for the Cleveland Indians pregame show on WEOL, he began his stand-up comedy career. This proved validating when he was named "Best Amateur Comedian in Ohio." Perhaps, another move was in order? Just months after that victory, and pre-midlife-crisis, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand up, but instead of finding a steady career, he met the love his life, filmmaking. You could call the affair, "torrid," and not only due to the Southern California climate. Always up to make a change, Douglas dove head first into fully transitioning to full-time filmmaking with his directorial debut, "Puppy Love" which was accepted into the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. Douglas has no plans to slow down, and it should also be stated, he wrote this bio, for which, we can all agree, he will not be winning any awards.