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Joel Douglas has married four times. His first wife was Susan Jorgensen, whom he married in 1968. [8] He married Judith Corso in 1975, then Patricia Reid-Douglas in 1986. [9] His most recent marriage to Jo Ann Savitt, whom he married on February 2, 2004, lasted until her death on November 21, 2013.
Diana Love Webster (née Dill; formerly Douglas and Darrid; January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015), known professionally as Diana Douglas, was a Bermudian-American actress who was married to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas.
In 2004, the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) named Douglas one of the 100 most notable people in the medical device industry. He is the inventor of 103 patents. Douglas is a University of Connecticut Academy of Distinguished Engineers member and sits on the National Association of Patent Practitioners' board of directors.
Douglas and his first wife, Diana Dill, married on November 2, 1943. They had two sons, actor Michael Douglas and producer Joel Douglas , before divorcing in 1951. According to his autobiography The Ragman's Son , he and Italian actress Pier Angeli were engaged in the early 1950s after meeting on the set of the film The Story of Three Loves ...
Douglas was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas (1916–2020) and German American mother Anne Buydens (1919–2021). [4] His father was Jewish and his mother later converted to Judaism. He was the younger brother of Peter Douglas, and his older half-brothers are Michael and Joel Douglas.
Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism. He sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, is an honorary board member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund and he was appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998. He has been married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000.
Douglas is the only child of actor Michael Douglas and Diandra Morrell (née Luker), and grandson of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian actress Diana Dill. His parents divorced in 2000. [2] Through his father's second marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, Douglas has two paternal half-siblings.
Peter Vincent Douglas (born November 23, 1955) is an American television and film producer. He is the third son of actor Kirk Douglas , and the first by his second wife, German-American producer Anne Buydens . [ 1 ]