Melvyn Douglas
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-04-05
Day of Death
1981-08-04 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Melvyn Douglas
Biography
Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka with Greta Garbo. Douglas later played mature and fatherly characters, as in his Academy Award–winning performances in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979) and his Academy Award–nominated performance in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). In the last few years of his life Douglas appeared in films with supernatural stories involving ghosts. Douglas appeared as "Senator Joseph Carmichael" in The Changeling in 1980 and Ghost Story in 1981 in his final completed film role.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(1990)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
(1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1982)
The Hot Touch
as Max Reich
(1981)
Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey
(1980)
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
(1980)
Tell Me a Riddle
as David
(1979)
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
(1979)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
(1978)
(1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
(1977)
Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
(1977)
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
as Grandpa Doc
(1976)
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
(1976)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1974)
The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
(1974)
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul Harelson
(1973)
The Going Up of David Lev
as Grandfather
(1972)
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
(1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1972)
One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
(1971)
Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl Chapman
(1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
(1970)
Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller Floran
(1968)
Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
(1967)
Hotel
as Warren Trent
(1967)
The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
(1967)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter Schermann
(1965)
Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
(1965)
Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
(1965)
Once Upon a Tractor
as Martin
(1964)
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
(1964)
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)
(1964)
Advance to the Rear
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
(1963)
Hud
as Homer Bannon
(1962)
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1959)
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Gen. Parker
(1958)
Old Man
as Self - Host
(1958)
The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Stalin
(1957)
The Greer Case
as Howard Hoagland
(1951)
My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
(1951)
On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
(1949)
The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
(1949)
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
(1948)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
(1948)
My Own True Love
as Clive Heath
(1947)
The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
(1947)
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
(1943)
Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff Seabrook
(1942)
They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
(1942)
We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
(1941)
Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
(1941)
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
(1941)
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
(1941)
Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
(1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Jeff Thompson
(1940)
He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul Boliet
(1940)
Too Many Husbands
as Henry Lowndes
(1940)
(1940)
This Thing Called Love
as Tice Collins
(1939)
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
(1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald Brooke
(1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny Williams
(1939)
Tell No Tales
as Michael Cassidy
(1939)
(1939)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
(1939)
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1938)
The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
(1938)
There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
(1938)
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
(1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
(1938)
The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
(1938)
That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
(1938)
There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
(1937)
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
(1937)
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
(1937)
I Met Him in Paris
as George Potter
(1937)
I'll Take Romance
as James Guthrie
(1937)
Women of Glamour
as Richard Stark
(1936)
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
(1936)
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
(1936)
And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
(1935)
Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
(1935)
The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael Lanyard
(1935)
She Married Her Boss
as Richard Barclay
(1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton Powell
(1935)
The People's Enemy
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
(1934)
Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
(1934)
Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
(1933)
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
(1933)
Counsellor at Law
as Roy Darwin
(1933)
Nagana
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
(1932)
The Old Dark House
as Penderel
(1932)
As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno Varelli
(1932)
The Wiser Sex
as David Rolfe
(1932)
Prestige
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
(1932)
The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
(1931)
Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher