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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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
Charles Stanton
Dangerous Corner
James Guthrie
I'll Take Romance
Joel Sloane
Fast Company
George Sartoris
The Toy Wife
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
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
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
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
98
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-04-05
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg