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