LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama. Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his ...

The last time Michael Douglas and Richard Plepler teamed up for a TV biopic, they spurned convention and produced a classic. Their latest, a listless history lesson on Benjamin Franklin's French ...

Michael Douglas executive produces and plays the title role in Franklin, an upcoming eight-episode limited series from Apple TV+. Douglas portrays American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin who ...

A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France ... Based on Schiff’s book and filmed in France, it stars Michael Douglas, in his first period picture, as the ...

Douglas got the blockbuster treatment playing Dr. Hank Pym in Marvel’s Ant-Man films, the most recent of which was 2023’s Ant ...

He looks more like Michael Douglas than someone trying to imitate Benjamin Franklin. Rather than experiencing “eight hours of the full Ben Franklin covering up Michael,” Douglas says ...

Michael Douglas says he had his work cut out for him turning into Benjamin Franklin for his new Apple TV+ series. Talking with ET's Cassie DiLaura ahead of the release of his show, Franklin ...

The 78-year-old actor is portraying one of the Founding Fathers of the United States in an upcoming, historic limited series. Michael Douglas has truly transformed for his upcoming role as ...

The Oscar winner returns to the small screen with the upcoming AppleTV+ series “Franklin,” based on the life of founding father Benjamin ... really only one: Michael Douglas.

Is Elon Musk the new Benjamin Franklin? Michael Douglas, who plays the latter in the new AppleTV+ series Franklin, seems to believe the two have more in common than one would think. The actor stop ...

Douglas is at his best (and most accurate) when Franklin has to be prickly rather than avuncular. Don't miss this: Michael Douglas on Playing Benjamin Franklin: ‘I Just Wanted to See How I Looked in ...