Trivia

His aunt and uncle, Al and Doris Eames, once lived next door to soon-to-be presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on Magazine Street in New Orleans.

He worked as a stand-in for Freddy Rodriguez on the pilot episode of "Six Feet Under." He was also used as the shadow of the father in the embalming room window for the dream sequence in that same episode.

He appeared in the opening credit photo montage of "The Bronx Zoo" alongside actor Nicholas Pryor.

He was the explorer scout in the color guard standing behind Leslie Nielsen when Nielsen sang the National Anthem as Enrico Palazzo in "The Naked Gun.".

He won the part of Albert Schweitzer in Andy Milligan's final film "Surgikill" at an open call at Milligan's studio he'd seen in Drama-Logue.

His first extra job in LA was as a towel boy in "The Running Man", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura.

His paternal grandfather, a New Orleans native, lived with his wife in Los Angeles for many years from the teens through the early 1940s, before eventually returning to Louisiana. Among his various occupations, he worked in the casting office at Columbia Studios in the early '30s, and cast Douglas's uncle and grandmother as extras in Frank Capra's "Miracle Woman," starring Barbara Stanwyck. Years later, Douglas would get his first break playing a recurring orderly on ABC's "General Hospital," which at the time was cast and taped at Sunset-Gower Studios, and unbeknownst to Douglas at the time, the same studio his grandfather had worked at when it was Columbia Pictures.

He speaks fluent Spanish as a second language, once appearing in Univision's Spanish version of "The Judge" courtroom drama, in which he played a 16-year-old son suing his parents for emancipation. Rene Enriquez played the judge.

Is a fourth cousin three times removed to Charles Ormond Eames Jr., renowned American furniture designer, architect, and filmmaker.