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