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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 5, 1901
Place of Birth:
Macon, Georgia, USA
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) |
| 1982 | The Hot Touch | Max Reich |
| 1981 | Ghost Story | Dr. John Jaffrey |
| 1980 | The Changeling | Senator Carmichael |
| 1980 | Tell Me a Riddle | David |
| 1979 | Being There | Benjamin Rand |
| 1979 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Senator Birney |
| 1978 | The Making of a President | |
| 1977 | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Zachariah Guthrie |
| 1977 | Intimate Strangers | Donald's Father |
| 1977 | Portrait of Grandpa Doc | Grandpa Doc |
| 1976 | The Tenant | Monsieur Zy |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Murder or Mercy | Dr. Paul Harelson |
| 1974 | The Death Squad | Police Captain Earl Kreski |
| 1973 | The Going Up of David Lev | Grandfather |
| 1972 | The Candidate | John J. McKay |
| 1972 | One Is a Lonely Number | Joseph Provo |
| 1972 | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) |
| 1971 | Death Takes a Holiday | Judge Earl Chapman |
| 1970 | I Never Sang for My Father | Tom Garrison |
| 1970 | Hunters Are for Killing | Keller Floran |
| 1968 | Companions in Nightmare | Dr. Lawrence Strelson |
| 1967 | Hotel | Warren Trent |
| 1967 | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Peter Schermann |
| 1967 | The Crucible | Deputy Governor Danforth |
| 1965 | Rapture | Frederick Larbaud |
| 1965 | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond |
| 1965 | Once Upon a Tractor | Martin |
| 1964 | The Americanization of Emily | Admiral William Jessup |
| 1964 | Advance to the Rear | Col. Claude Brackenbury |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Leon (archive footage) |
| 1963 | Hud | Homer Bannon |
| 1962 | Billy Budd | The Dansker, Sailmaker |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Gen. Parker |
| 1958 | The Plot to Kill Stalin | Stalin |
| 1958 | Old Man | Self - Host |
| 1957 | The Greer Case | Howard Hoagland |
| 1951 | My Forbidden Past | Paul Beaurevel |
| 1951 | On the Loose | Frank Bradley |
| 1949 | A Woman's Secret | Luke Jordan |
| 1949 | The Great Sinner | Armand De Glasse |
| 1948 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Bill Cole |
| 1948 | My Own True Love | Clive Heath |
| 1947 | The Guilt of Janet Ames | Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb |
| 1947 | The Sea of Grass | Brice Chamberlain |
| 1943 | Three Hearts for Julia | Jeff Seabrook |
| 1942 | They All Kissed the Bride | Michael 'Mike' Holmes |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing | Nicholas Prax |
| 1941 | A Woman's Face | Dr. Gustaf Segert |
| 1941 | That Uncertain Feeling | Larry Baker |
| 1941 | Our Wife | Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin |
| 1941 | Two-Faced Woman | Lawrence 'Larry' Blake |
| 1940 | Third Finger, Left Hand | Jeff Thompson |
| 1940 | Too Many Husbands | Henry Lowndes |
| 1940 | He Stayed for Breakfast | Paul Boliet |
| 1940 | This Thing Called Love | Tice Collins |
| 1940 | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self |
| 1939 | Ninotchka | Count Leon d'Algout |
| 1939 | Tell No Tales | Michael Cassidy |
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris | Ronald Brooke |
| 1939 | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Kenny Williams |
| 1939 | From the Ends of the Earth | Self |
| 1939 | Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 | Self |
| 1939 | Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 | Melvyn Douglas |
| 1938 | That Certain Age | Vincent Bullitt |
| 1938 | The Shining Hour | Henry Linden |
| 1938 | Arsène Lupin Returns | Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin |
| 1938 | There's Always a Woman | William H. Reardon |
| 1938 | The Toy Wife | George Sartoris |
| 1938 | Fast Company | Joel Sloane |
| 1938 | There's That Woman Again | William 'Bill' Reardon |
| 1937 | Angel | Anthony 'Tony' Halton |
| 1937 | Captains Courageous | Frank Burton Cheyne |
| 1937 | I Met Him in Paris | George Potter |
| 1937 | I'll Take Romance | James Guthrie |
| 1937 | Women of Glamour | Richard Stark |
| 1936 | Theodora Goes Wild | Michael Grant |
| 1936 | The Gorgeous Hussy | John Randolph |
| 1936 | And So They Were Married | Stephen Blake |
| 1935 | Annie Oakley | Jeff Hogarth |
| 1935 | She Married Her Boss | Richard Barclay |
| 1935 | The People's Enemy | George R. 'Traps' Stuart |
| 1935 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Barton Powell |
| 1935 | The Lone Wolf Returns | Michael Lanyard |
| 1934 | Dangerous Corner | Charles Stanton |
| 1934 | Woman in the Dark | Tony Robson |
| 1933 | The Vampire Bat | Karl Brettschneider |
| 1933 | Counsellor at Law | Roy Darwin |
| 1933 | Nagana | Dr. Walter Tradnor |
| 1932 | The Old Dark House | Penderel |
| 1932 | As You Desire Me | Count Bruno Varelli |
| 1932 | Prestige | Capt. Andre Verlaine |
| 1932 | The Wiser Sex | David Rolfe |
| 1932 | The Broken Wing | Philip 'Phil' Marvin |
| 1931 | Tonight or Never | Jim Fletcher |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Weekend Special | Grandpa Doc |
| 1974 | The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | Stateman Benjamin Franklin |
| 1972 | Ghost Story | Grandpa |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1966 | CBS Playhouse | Peter Schermann |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Dr. Mark Ryder |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Pat Konke |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | Burton Strang |
| 1961 | Kraft Mystery Theatre | |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 | Gen. Parker |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Professor Arthur Barris |
| 1952 | Hollywood Off Beat | Steve Randall |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Henry Drummond |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Galileo Galilei |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | James Strickland |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows | Self - Guest Host |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows | Self - Guest Performer |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Panelist |
| 1949 | Lights Out | |
| 1948 | Studio One | Cyril Ritchard |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Richard Gordon |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | The Stranger |