From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Known For
| Birth Location | Macon, Georgia, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1901-04-05 |
| Died | 1981-08-04 |
Movies
Disco and Atomic War
as Count Leon d'Algout (archive footage)
2009
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1990
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller Floran
1987
The Hot Touch
as Max Reich
1983
Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey
1981
Tell Me a Riddle
as David
1980
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
1980
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
1979
Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
1977
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul Harelson
1974
The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
1974
The Going Up of David Lev
as Grandfather
1973
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
1972
One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl Chapman
1971
I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
1970
Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
1968
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter Schermann
1967
The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
1967
Hotel
as Warren Trent
1967
Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
1965
Once Upon a Tractor
as Martin
1965
Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
1965
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
1964
Hud
as Homer Bannon
1963
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
Old Man
as Self - Host
1958
The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Stalin
1958
The Greer Case
as Howard Hoagland
1957
On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
1951
My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
1951
The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
1949
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
1949
My Own True Love
as Clive Heath
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
1948
The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
1947
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
1947
Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff Seabrook
1943
They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
1942
We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
1942
Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
1941
Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
1941
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
1941
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
1941
This Thing Called Love
as Tice Collins
1940
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Jeff Thompson
1940
He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul Boliet
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
Too Many Husbands
as Henry Lowndes
1940
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny Williams
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald Brooke
1939
Tell No Tales
as Michael Cassidy
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
1939
There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
1938
The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
1938
That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
1938
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
1938
The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
1938
There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
1938
I'll Take Romance
as James Guthrie
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 'Dick' Stark
1937
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
1936
And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
1936
The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael Lanyard
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton Powell
1935
Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
1935
She Married Her Boss
as Richard Barclay
1935
The People's Enemy
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
1935
Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
1934
Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
1934
Counsellor at Law
as Roy Darwin
1933
Nagana
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
1933
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
1933
The Old Dark House
as Penderel
1932
As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno Varelli
1932
The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
1932
The Wiser Sex
as David Rolfe
1932
Prestige
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
1931
Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher
1931
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