Melvyn Douglas

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

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

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

98

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-04-05

Place of Birth

Macon, Georgia, USA

Also Known As

Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg