His father was Jewish and was born Issur Danielovitch. Michael's paternal grandparents were emigrants from Chavusy in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus). His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, and had English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Belgian, and Dutch ancestry.In the wings: a memoir, 1999, by Diana Douglas Darrid, p. 17 Douglas' uncle was politician Sir Nicholas Bayard Dill, and Douglas' maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda, as a Member of the Parliament of Bermuda (MCP), and as commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Douglas is a US citizen by birth in the United States and has Bermudian Status from his mother's birth in Bermuda.
His father was Jewish and was born Issur Danielovitch. Michael's paternal grandparents were emigrants from Chavusy in the Russian Empire (presen,t-day Belarus). His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, and had English, Irish, Scott,ish, Welsh, French, Belgian, and Dutch ancestry.In the wings: a memoir, 1999, by Diana Douglas Darrid, p. 17 Douglas' uncle was politician Sir Nicholas Bayard Dill and Douglas' maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Melville Dill served as Attorney General of Bermuda, as a Member of the Parliament of Bermuda (MCP) and as commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Douglas is a US citizen by birth in the United States and has Bermudian Status fro,m his mother's birth in Bermuda.