Melvyn Douglas
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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
Credits
The Tenant (1976)
as Monsieur Zy
Being There (1979)
as Benjamin Rand
The Changeling (1980)
as Senator Carmichael
Hud (1963)
as Homer Bannon
Ghost Story (1981)
as John Jaffrey
Ninotchka (1939)
as Count Leon d'Algout
The Old Dark House (1932)
as Penderel
A Woman's Face (1941)
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
as Zachariah Guthrie
Captains Courageous (1937)
as Frank Burton Cheyne
The Sea of Grass (1947)
as Brice Chamberlain
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
as Admiral William Jessup
A Woman's Secret (1949)
as Luke Jordan
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
as Bill Cole
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
as Senator Birney
The Candidate (1972)
as John J. McKay
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
Advance to the Rear (1964)
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
This Thing Called Love (1940)
as Tice Collins
Annie Oakley (1935)
as Jeff Hogarth
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
as Ronald Brooke
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
as Jeff Thompson
I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
as Tom Garrison
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
as Leon (archive footage)
As You Desire Me (1932)
as Count Bruno Varelli
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990)
as (archive footage)
There's Always a Woman (1938)
as William H. Reardon
Angel (1937)
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
as Paul Boliet
Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
as Jeff Seabrook
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
as Michael Grant
The Great Sinner (1949)
as Armand De Glasse
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
as Kenny Williams
Billy Budd (1962)
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
Once Upon a Tractor (1965)
as Martin
That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
as Larry Baker
Hunters Are for Killing (1970)
as Keller Floran
She Married Her Boss (1935)
as Richard Barclay
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967)
as Peter Schermann
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self
My Forbidden Past (1951)
as Paul Beaurevel
My Own True Love (1948)
as Clive Heath
The Shining Hour (1938)
as Henry Linden
Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
as David
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
as George Potter
Woman in the Dark (1934)
as Tony Robson
The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)
as Stalin
They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
Death Takes a Holiday (1971)
as Judge Earl Chapman
Our Wife (1941)
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
There's That Woman Again (1938)
as William 'Bill' Reardon
Prestige (1932)
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Intimate Strangers (1977)
as Donald's Father
The Hot Touch (1982)
as Max Reich
Hotel (1967)
as Warren Trent
And So They Were Married (1936)
as Stephen Blake
One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
as Joseph Provo
The Vampire Bat (1933)
as Karl Brettschneider
The Toy Wife (1938)
as George Sartoris
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935)
as Michael Lanyard
Too Many Husbands (1940)
as Henry Lowndes
The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
Garbo, by Joan Crawford (1969)
as Self (archive footage)
Portrait of Grandpa Doc (1977)
as Grandpa Doc
Fast Company (1938)
as Joel Sloane
I'll Take Romance (1937)
as James Guthrie
The Making of a President (1978)
Actor
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
as John Randolph
Murder or Mercy (1974)
as Dr. Paul Harelson
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939)
as Melvyn Douglas
Inherit the Wind (1965)
as Henry Drummond
Counsellor at Law (1933)
as Roy Darwin
The Going Up of David Lev (1973)
as Grandfather
The Crucible (1967)
as Deputy Governor Danforth
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)
as Self
Tell No Tales (1939)
as Michael Cassidy
The Death Squad (1974)
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
A Gift To Last (1976)
as Old Clement Sturgess
The People's Enemy (1935)
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
Tonight or Never (1931)
as Jim Fletcher
That Certain Age (1938)
as Vincent Bullitt
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Barton Powell
The Greer Case (1957)
as Howard Hoagland
Women of Glamour (1937)
as Richard Stark
The Wiser Sex (1932)
as David Rolfe
Companions in Nightmare (1968)
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
Judgment at Nuremberg (1959)
as Gen. Parker
Old Man (1958)
as Self - Host
We Were Dancing (1942)
as Nicholas Prax
The Broken Wing (1932)
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
Rapture (1965)
as Frederick Larbaud
Dangerous Corner (1934)
as Charles Stanton
On the Loose (1951)
as Frank Bradley
Nagana (1933)
as Dr. Walter Tradnor