Joel Douglas

Joel Douglas chose producing over the acting career his father Kirk Douglas and brother Michael pursued, working behind the camera on films including The Jewel of the Nile and Romancing the Stone. He was an assistant director on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and later an associate producer on It Runs in the Family, a film uniting three generations of his family on screen; his paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel, in what is now Belarus.