
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.

Count Leon d'Algout
Ninotchka

Benjamin Rand
Being There

The Dansker, Sailmaker
Billy Budd

John J. McKay
The Candidate

Monsieur Zy
Le locataire

Penderel
The Old Dark House

Dr. John Jaffrey
Ghost Story

Homer Bannon
Hud

Bill Cole
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Dr. Gustaf Segert
A Woman's Face

Senator Carmichael
The Changeling

Admiral William Jessup
The Americanization of Emily

Karl Brettschneider
The Vampire Bat

Larry Baker
That Uncertain Feeling

Michael 'Mike' Holmes
They All Kissed the Bride

Jeff Hogarth
Annie Oakley

Vincent Bullitt
That Certain Age

Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
The Guilt of Janet Ames

Anthony 'Tony' Halton
Angel

Frank Burton Cheyne
Captains Courageous

Senator Birney
The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Jeff Thompson
Third Finger, Left Hand

Richard Barclay
She Married Her Boss

Michael Grant
Theodora Goes Wild

Roy Darwin
Counsellor at Law

Frederick Larbaud
Rapture

Luke Jordan
A Woman's Secret

Tom Garrison
I Never Sang for My Father

Joseph Provo
One Is a Lonely Number

George R. 'Traps' Stuart
The People's Enemy

Zachariah Guthrie
Twilight's Last Gleaming

Clive Heath
My Own True Love

Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
Our Wife

Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
Two-Faced Woman

Brice Chamberlain
The Sea of Grass

Jim Fletcher
Tonight or Never

Michael Cassidy
Tell No Tales

Paul Beaurevel
My Forbidden Past

Henry Lowndes
Too Many Husbands

Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Barton Powell
Mary Burns, Fugitive

Count Bruno Varelli
As You Desire Me

John Randolph
The Gorgeous Hussy

Ronald Brooke
Good Girls Go to Paris

Henry Linden
The Shining Hour

Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
Arsène Lupin Returns

George Potter
I Met Him in Paris

Paul Boliet
He Stayed for Breakfast

Armand De Glasse
The Great Sinner

Col. Claude Brackenbury
Advance to the Rear

William H. Reardon
There's Always a Woman

Kenny Williams
The Amazing Mr. Williams

Capt. Andre Verlaine
Prestige

James Guthrie
I'll Take Romance

Charles Stanton
Dangerous Corner

George Sartoris
The Toy Wife

Joel Sloane
Fast Company

Stephen Blake
And So They Were Married

Frank Bradley
On the Loose

David
Tell Me a Riddle

Tony Robson
Woman in the Dark

Nicholas Prax
We Were Dancing

Tice Collins
This Thing Called Love

Judge Earl Chapman
Death Takes a Holiday

Keller Floran
Hunters Are for Killing

The Making of a President

Jeff Seabrook
Three Hearts for Julia

Michael Lanyard
The Lone Wolf Returns

Dr. Paul Harelson
Murder or Mercy

Max Reich
The Hot Touch

Donald's Father
Intimate Strangers

Warren Trent
Hotel

William 'Bill' Reardon
There's That Woman Again

Grandfather
The Going Up of David Lev

Stalin
The Plot to Kill Stalin

Self - Host
Old Man

Howard Hoagland
The Greer Case

Peter Schermann
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Grandpa Doc
Portrait of Grandpa Doc

Richard Stark
Women of Glamour

Dr. Lawrence Strelson
Companions in Nightmare

Henry Drummond
Inherit the Wind

David Rolfe
The Wiser Sex

Martin
Once Upon a Tractor

Philip 'Phil' Marvin
The Broken Wing

Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Death Squad

Deputy Governor Danforth
The Crucible

Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II

Self
From the Ends of the Earth

(archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Dr. Walter Tradnor
Nagana

Leon (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy

Self
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

Melvyn Douglas
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Gen. Parker
Judgment at Nuremberg

Self (archive footage)
Garbo, by Joan Crawford

Self (archive footage)
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
99
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-04-05
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg