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.
Known For
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)
Tell Me a Riddle
as David
(1980)
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
(1979)
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
(1979)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
(1978)
(1977)
Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
(1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
(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)
One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
(1972)
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
(1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(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)
The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
(1967)
Hotel
as Warren Trent
(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 Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)
(1964)
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
(1964)
Advance to the Rear
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
(1963)
Hud
as Homer Bannon
(1962)
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
(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)
On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
(1951)
My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
(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)
We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
(1942)
They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
(1941)
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
(1941)
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
(1941)
Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
(1941)
Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
(1940)
(1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Jeff Thompson
(1940)
Too Many Husbands
as Henry Lowndes
(1940)
This Thing Called Love
as Tice Collins
(1940)
He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul Boliet
(1939)
(1939)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
(1939)
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
(1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny Williams
(1939)
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1939)
Tell No Tales
as Michael Cassidy
(1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald Brooke
(1938)
There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
(1938)
That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
(1938)
The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
(1938)
There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
(1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
(1938)
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
(1938)
The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
(1937)
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
(1937)
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
(1937)
I Met Him in Paris
as George Potter
(1937)
Women of Glamour
as Richard Stark
(1937)
I'll Take Romance
as James Guthrie
(1936)
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
(1936)
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
(1936)
And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
(1935)
Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
(1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton Powell
(1935)
The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael Lanyard
(1935)
The People's Enemy
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
(1935)
She Married Her Boss
as Richard Barclay
(1934)
Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
(1934)
Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
(1933)
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
(1933)
Nagana
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
(1933)
Counsellor at Law
as Roy Darwin
(1932)
The Old Dark House
as Penderel
(1932)
The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
(1932)
As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno Varelli
(1932)
Prestige
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
(1932)
The Wiser Sex
as David Rolfe
(1931)
Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher