Melvyn Douglas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 5, 1901
- Died
- Aug 4, 1981 (aged 80)
- Place of birth
- Macon, Georgia, USA
- Credits
- 122
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
Filmography
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014Movie
Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990Movie
(archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Hot Touch
1982Movie
Max Reich
American Playhouse
1982TV
David
Ghost Story
1981Movie
John Jaffrey
Tell Me a Riddle
1980Movie
David
The Changeling
1980Movie
Senator Carmichael
Being There
1979Movie
Benjamin Rand
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979Movie
Senator Birney
The Making of a President
1978Movie
Intimate Strangers
1977Movie
Donald's Father
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1977Movie
Grandpa Doc
ABC Weekend Specials
1977TV
Grandpa Doc
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977Movie
Zachariah Guthrie
A Gift To Last
1976Movie
Old Clement Sturgess
The Tenant
1976Movie
Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976Movie
(archive footage)
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974TV
Stateman Benjamin Franklin
Murder or Mercy
1974Movie
Dr. Paul Harelson
The Death Squad
1974Movie
Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Going Up of David Lev
1973Movie
Grandfather
Ghost Story
1972TV
Grandpa
The Candidate
1972Movie
John J. McKay
One Is a Lonely Number
1972Movie
Joseph Provo
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972Movie
Self (archive footage)
Death Takes a Holiday
1971Movie
Judge Earl Chapman
I Never Sang for My Father
1970Movie
Tom Garrison
Hunters Are for Killing
1970Movie
Keller Floran
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1969Movie
Self (archive footage)
Companions in Nightmare
1968Movie
Dr. Lawrence Strelson
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967Movie
Peter Schermann
The Crucible
1967Movie
Deputy Governor Danforth
Hotel
1967Movie
Warren Trent
CBS Playhouse
1966TV
Peter Schermann
Inherit the Wind
1965Movie
Henry Drummond
Once Upon a Tractor
1965Movie
Martin
Rapture
1965Movie
Frederick Larbaud
The Americanization of Emily
1964Movie
Admiral William Jessup
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964Movie
Leon (archive footage)
Advance to the Rear
1964Movie
Col. Claude Brackenbury
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963TV
Pat Konke
The Fugitive
1963TV
Dr. Mark Ryder
Hud
1963Movie
Homer Bannon
Billy Budd
1962Movie
The Dansker, Sailmaker
Ben Casey
1961TV
Burton Strang
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961TV
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959Movie
Gen. Parker
Old Man
1958Movie
Self - Host
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958Movie
Stalin
The Greer Case
1957Movie
Howard Hoagland
Playhouse 90
1956TV
Gen. Parker
MGM Parade
1955TV
Self, self
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Professor Arthur Barris
Hollywood Off Beat
1952TV
Steve Randall
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Henry Drummond, Galileo Galilei
On the Loose
1951Movie
Frank Bradley
My Forbidden Past
1951Movie
Paul Beaurevel
Lux Video Theatre
1950TV
James Strickland
Your Show of Shows
1950TV
Self - Guest Host, Self - Guest Performer
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self
Lights Out
1949TV
The Great Sinner
1949Movie
Armand De Glasse
A Woman's Secret
1949Movie
Luke Jordan
Studio One
1948TV
Cyril Ritchard
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV
Richard Gordon, The Stranger
My Own True Love
1948Movie
Clive Heath
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948Movie
Bill Cole
The Sea of Grass
1947Movie
Brice Chamberlain
The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947Movie
Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
Three Hearts for Julia
1943Movie
Jeff Seabrook
They All Kissed the Bride
1942Movie
Michael 'Mike' Holmes
We Were Dancing
1942Movie
Nicholas Prax
Two-Faced Woman
1941Movie
Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
Our Wife
1941Movie
Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
A Woman's Face
1941Movie
Dr. Gustaf Segert
That Uncertain Feeling
1941Movie
Larry Baker
This Thing Called Love
1940Movie
Tice Collins
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940Movie
Jeff Thompson
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940Movie
Paul Boliet
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940Movie
Self
Too Many Husbands
1940Movie
Henry Lowndes
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939Movie
Kenny Williams
Ninotchka
1939Movie
Count Leon d'Algout
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939Movie
Self
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939Movie
Ronald Brooke
Tell No Tales
1939Movie
Michael Cassidy
From the Ends of the Earth
1939Movie
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939Movie
Melvyn Douglas
There's That Woman Again
1938Movie
William 'Bill' Reardon
The Shining Hour
1938Movie
Henry Linden
That Certain Age
1938Movie
Vincent Bullitt
Fast Company
1938Movie
Joel Sloane
The Toy Wife
1938Movie
George Sartoris
There's Always a Woman
1938Movie
William H. Reardon
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938Movie
Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
I'll Take Romance
1937Movie
James Guthrie
Angel
1937Movie
Anthony 'Tony' Halton
Captains Courageous
1937Movie
Frank Burton Cheyne
I Met Him in Paris
1937Movie
George Potter
Women of Glamour
1937Movie
Richard Stark
Theodora Goes Wild
1936Movie
Michael Grant
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936Movie
John Randolph
And So They Were Married
1936Movie
Stephen Blake
The Lone Wolf Returns
1935Movie
Michael Lanyard
Annie Oakley
1935Movie
Jeff Hogarth
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935Movie
Barton Powell
She Married Her Boss
1935Movie
Richard Barclay
The People's Enemy
1935Movie
George R. 'Traps' Stuart
Dangerous Corner
1934Movie
Charles Stanton
Woman in the Dark
1934Movie
Tony Robson
Counsellor at Law
1933Movie
Roy Darwin
Nagana
1933Movie
Dr. Walter Tradnor
The Vampire Bat
1933Movie
Karl Brettschneider
The Old Dark House
1932Movie
Penderel
As You Desire Me
1932Movie
Count Bruno Varelli
The Broken Wing
1932Movie
Philip 'Phil' Marvin
The Wiser Sex
1932Movie
David Rolfe
Prestige
1932Movie
Capt. Andre Verlaine
Tonight or Never
1931Movie
Jim Fletcher