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