Melvyn Douglas
Acting • Born 1901-04-05 – Died 1981-08-04
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.
Filmography
126 credits
Ninotchka
Movie • 1939
Count Leon d'Algout
Being There
Movie • 1979
Benjamin Rand
Billy Budd
Movie • 1962
The Dansker, Sailmaker
The Candidate
Movie • 1972
John J. McKay
The Tenant
Movie • 1976
Monsieur Zy
The Old Dark House
Movie • 1932
Penderel
Ghost Story
Movie • 1981
Dr. John Jaffrey
Hud
Movie • 1963
Homer Bannon
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Movie • 1948
Bill Cole
A Woman's Face
Movie • 1941
Dr. Gustaf Segert
The Changeling
Movie • 1980
Senator Carmichael
The Americanization of Emily
Movie • 1964
Admiral William Jessup
The Vampire Bat
Movie • 1933
Karl Brettschneider
That Uncertain Feeling
Movie • 1941
Larry Baker
They All Kissed the Bride
Movie • 1942
Michael 'Mike' Holmes
Annie Oakley
Movie • 1935
Jeff Hogarth
That Certain Age
Movie • 1938
Vincent Bullitt
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Movie • 1947
Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
Angel
Movie • 1937
Anthony 'Tony' Halton
Captains Courageous
Movie • 1937
Frank Burton Cheyne
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Movie • 1979
Senator Birney
Third Finger, Left Hand
Movie • 1940
Jeff Thompson
She Married Her Boss
Movie • 1935
Richard Barclay
Theodora Goes Wild
Movie • 1936
Michael Grant
Counsellor at Law
Movie • 1933
Roy Darwin
Rapture
Movie • 1965
Frederick Larbaud
A Woman's Secret
Movie • 1949
Luke Jordan
I Never Sang for My Father
Movie • 1970
Tom Garrison
One Is a Lonely Number
Movie • 1972
Joseph Provo
The People's Enemy
Movie • 1935
George R. 'Traps' Stuart
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie • 1977
Zachariah Guthrie
My Own True Love
Movie • 1948
Clive Heath
Our Wife
Movie • 1941
Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
Two-Faced Woman
Movie • 1941
Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
The Sea of Grass
Movie • 1947
Brice Chamberlain
Tonight or Never
Movie • 1931
Jim Fletcher
Tell No Tales
Movie • 1939
Michael Cassidy
My Forbidden Past
Movie • 1951
Paul Beaurevel
Too Many Husbands
Movie • 1940
Henry Lowndes
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie • 1935
Barton Powell
As You Desire Me
Movie • 1932
Count Bruno Varelli
The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie • 1936
John Randolph
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie • 1939
Ronald Brooke
The Shining Hour
Movie • 1938
Henry Linden
Arsène Lupin Returns
Movie • 1938
Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
I Met Him in Paris
Movie • 1937
George Potter
He Stayed for Breakfast
Movie • 1940
Paul Boliet
The Great Sinner
Movie • 1949
Armand De Glasse
Advance to the Rear
Movie • 1964
Col. Claude Brackenbury
There's Always a Woman
Movie • 1938
William H. Reardon
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie • 1939
Kenny Williams
Prestige
Movie • 1932
Capt. Andre Verlaine
I'll Take Romance
Movie • 1937
James Guthrie
Dangerous Corner
Movie • 1934
Charles Stanton
The Toy Wife
Movie • 1938
George Sartoris
Fast Company
Movie • 1938
Joel Sloane
And So They Were Married
Movie • 1936
Stephen Blake
On the Loose
Movie • 1951
Frank Bradley
Tell Me a Riddle
Movie • 1980
David
Woman in the Dark
Movie • 1934
Tony Robson
We Were Dancing
Movie • 1942
Nicholas Prax
This Thing Called Love
Movie • 1940
Tice Collins
Death Takes a Holiday
Movie • 1971
Judge Earl Chapman
Hunters Are for Killing
Movie • 1970
Keller Floran
The Making of a President
Movie • 1978
Three Hearts for Julia
Movie • 1943
Jeff Seabrook
The Lone Wolf Returns
Movie • 1935
Michael Lanyard
Murder or Mercy
Movie • 1974
Dr. Paul Harelson
The Hot Touch
Movie • 1982
Max Reich
Intimate Strangers
Movie • 1977
Donald's Father
Hotel
Movie • 1967
Warren Trent
There's That Woman Again
Movie • 1938
William 'Bill' Reardon
The Going Up of David Lev
Movie • 1973
Grandfather
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Movie • 1958
Stalin
Old Man
Movie • 1958
Self - Host
The Greer Case
Movie • 1957
Howard Hoagland
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Movie • 1967
Peter Schermann
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Movie • 1977
Grandpa Doc
Women of Glamour
Movie • 1937
Richard Stark
Companions in Nightmare
Movie • 1968
Dr. Lawrence Strelson
Inherit the Wind
Movie • 1965
Henry Drummond
The Wiser Sex
Movie • 1932
David Rolfe
Once Upon a Tractor
Movie • 1965
Martin
The Broken Wing
Movie • 1932
Philip 'Phil' Marvin
The Death Squad
Movie • 1974
Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Crucible
Movie • 1967
Deputy Governor Danforth
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie • 1940
Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1939
Self
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Movie • 1990
(archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Nagana
Movie • 1933
Dr. Walter Tradnor
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Leon (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Movie • 1939
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Movie • 1939
Melvyn Douglas
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie • 1959
Gen. Parker
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage)
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
A Gift To Last
Movie • 1976
Old Clement Sturgess
Studio One
TV • 1948
Cyril Ritchard
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Professor Arthur Barris
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Henry Drummond
Weekend Special
TV • 1977
Grandpa Doc
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Dr. Mark Ryder
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
James Strickland
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Self - Guest Host
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Pat Konke
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Richard Gordon
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Burton Strang
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Peter Schermann
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Grandpa
Kraft Mystery Theatre
TV • 1961
Hollywood Off Beat
TV • 1952
Steve Randall
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Gen. Parker
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV • 1974
Stateman Benjamin Franklin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Galileo Galilei
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Stranger
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Self - Guest Performer
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Panelist
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
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