Melvyn Douglas
92 movies · 15 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 5, 1901
- Died
- Aug 4, 1981 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Macon, Georgia, USA
- Also known as
- Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
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.
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Known for
Melvyn Douglas: movies and TV shows
Acting (107)
- 1990 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
- 1982 The Hot Touch
as Max Reich
- 1982
- 1981 Ghost Story
as John Jaffrey
- 1980 Tell Me a Riddle
as David
- 1980 The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
- 1979 Being There
as Benjamin Rand
- 1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
- 1978
- 1977 Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
- 1977 Portrait of Grandpa Doc
as Grandpa Doc
- 1977
- 1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
- 1976 A Gift To Last
as Old Clement Sturgess
- 1976 The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
- 1974
- 1974 Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul Harelson
- 1974 The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
- 1973 The Going Up of David Lev
as Grandfather
- 1972
- 1972 The Candidate
as John J. McKay
- 1972 One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
- 1971 Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl Chapman
- 1970 I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
- 1970 Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller Floran
- 1968 Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
- 1967 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter Schermann
- 1967 The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
- 1967 Hotel
as Warren Trent
- 1966
- 1965 Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
- 1965 Once Upon a Tractor
as Martin
- 1965 Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
- 1964 The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)
- 1964 Advance to the Rear
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
- 1963
- 1963 Hud
as Homer Bannon
- 1962 Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
- 1961
- 1961
- 1959 Judgment at Nuremberg
as Gen. Parker
- 1958 The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Stalin
- 1957 The Greer Case
as Howard Hoagland
- 1956
- 1953
- 1952
- 1951
- 1951 On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
- 1951 My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
- 1950
- 1949 The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
- 1949 A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
- 1948
- 1948
- 1948 My Own True Love
as Clive Heath
- 1948 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
- 1947 The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
- 1947 The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
- 1943 Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff Seabrook
- 1942 They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
- 1942 We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
- 1941 Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
- 1941 Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
- 1941 A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
- 1941 That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
- 1940 This Thing Called Love
as Tice Collins
- 1940 Third Finger, Left Hand
as Jeff Thompson
- 1940 He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul Boliet
- 1940 Too Many Husbands
as Henry Lowndes
- 1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny Williams
- 1939 Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
- 1939 Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald Brooke
- 1939 Tell No Tales
as Michael Cassidy
- 1939 Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
- 1938 There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
- 1938 The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
- 1938 That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
- 1938 Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
- 1938 The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
- 1938 There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
- 1938 Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
- 1937 I'll Take Romance
as James Guthrie
- 1937 Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
- 1937 Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
- 1937 I Met Him in Paris
as George Potter
- 1937 Women of Glamour
as Richard Stark
- 1936 Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
- 1936 The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
- 1936 And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
- 1935 The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael Lanyard
- 1935 Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
- 1935 Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton Powell
- 1935 She Married Her Boss
as Richard Barclay
- 1935 The People's Enemy
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
- 1934 Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
- 1934 Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
- 1933 Counsellor at Law
as Roy Darwin
- 1933 Nagana
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
- 1933 The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
- 1932 The Old Dark House
as Penderel
- 1932 As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno Varelli
- 1932 The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
- 1932 The Wiser Sex
as David Rolfe
- 1932 Prestige
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
- 1931 Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher
Talk shows and appearances (15)
- 2014
- 1988
- 1972
- 1969
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
1 episode
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode
- 1958
- 1955 MGM Parade
4 episodes
- 1950 Your Show of Shows
2 episodes
- 1950 What's My Line?
2 episodes
- 1949 Lights Out
1 episode
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode
- 1940
- 1939
- 1939