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