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