Melvyn Douglas
Born: 1901-04-05 in Macon, Georgia, USA
Died: 1981-08-04
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2014
- Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
1988
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1982
- The Hot Touch as Max Reich
1981
- Ghost Story as Dr. John Jaffrey
1980
- The Changeling as Senator Carmichael
- Tell Me a Riddle as David
1979
- Being There as Benjamin Rand
- The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Senator Birney
1977
- Weekend Special as Grandpa Doc
- Twilight's Last Gleaming as Zachariah Guthrie
- Intimate Strangers as Donald's Father
- Portrait of Grandpa Doc as Grandpa Doc
1976
- The Tenant as Monsieur Zy
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- A Gift To Last as Old Clement Sturgess
1974
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Stateman Benjamin Franklin
- Murder or Mercy as Dr. Paul Harelson
- The Death Squad as Police Captain Earl Kreski
1973
- The Going Up of David Lev as Grandfather
1972
- Ghost Story as Grandpa
- The Candidate as John J. McKay
- One Is a Lonely Number as Joseph Provo
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1971
- Death Takes a Holiday as Judge Earl Chapman
1970
- I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison
- Hunters Are for Killing as Keller Floran
1969
- Garbo, by Joan Crawford as Self (archive footage)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Companions in Nightmare as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
1967
- Hotel as Warren Trent
- The Crucible as Deputy Governor Danforth
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night as Peter Schermann
1966
- CBS Playhouse as Peter Schermann
1965
- Rapture as Frederick Larbaud
- Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond
- Once Upon a Tractor as Martin
1964
- The Americanization of Emily as Admiral William Jessup
- Advance to the Rear as Col. Claude Brackenbury
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Leon (archive footage)
1963
- The Fugitive as Dr. Mark Ryder
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Pat Konke
- Hud as Homer Bannon
1962
- Billy Budd as The Dansker, Sailmaker
1961
- Ben Casey as Burton Strang
- Kraft Mystery Theatre
1959
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Gen. Parker
1958
- The Plot to Kill Stalin as Stalin
- Old Man as Self - Host
1957
- The Greer Case as Howard Hoagland
1956
- Playhouse 90 as Gen. Parker
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
1953
- General Electric Theater as Professor Arthur Barris
1952
- Hollywood Off Beat as Steve Randall
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Henry Drummond
- On the Loose as Frank Bradley
- My Forbidden Past as Paul Beaurevel
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as James Strickland
- Your Show of Shows as Self - Guest Host
1949
- Lights Out
- A Woman's Secret as Luke Jordan
- The Great Sinner as Armand De Glasse
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Richard Gordon
- Studio One as Cyril Ritchard
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Bill Cole
- My Own True Love as Clive Heath
1947
- The Sea of Grass as Brice Chamberlain
- The Guilt of Janet Ames as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
1943
- Three Hearts for Julia as Jeff Seabrook
1942
- We Were Dancing as Nicholas Prax
- They All Kissed the Bride as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
1941
- A Woman's Face as Dr. Gustaf Segert
- That Uncertain Feeling as Larry Baker
- Two-Faced Woman as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
- Our Wife as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
1940
- Third Finger, Left Hand as Jeff Thompson
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self
- Too Many Husbands as Henry Lowndes
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Paul Boliet
- This Thing Called Love as Tice Collins
1939
- Ninotchka as Count Leon d'Algout
- From the Ends of the Earth as Self
- Good Girls Go to Paris as Ronald Brooke
- The Amazing Mr. Williams as Kenny Williams
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as Melvyn Douglas
- Tell No Tales as Michael Cassidy
- Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 as Self
1938
- Arsène Lupin Returns as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
- That Certain Age as Vincent Bullitt
- The Shining Hour as Henry Linden
- There's Always a Woman as William H. Reardon
- There's That Woman Again as William 'Bill' Reardon
- Fast Company as Joel Sloane
- The Toy Wife as George Sartoris
1937
- Captains Courageous as Frank Burton Cheyne
- Angel as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
- I Met Him in Paris as George Potter
- I'll Take Romance as James Guthrie
- Women of Glamour as Richard Stark
1936
- The Gorgeous Hussy as John Randolph
- Theodora Goes Wild as Michael Grant
- And So They Were Married as Stephen Blake
1935
- Annie Oakley as Jeff Hogarth
- The Lone Wolf Returns as Michael Lanyard
- The People's Enemy as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
- She Married Her Boss as Richard Barclay
- Mary Burns, Fugitive as Barton Powell
1934
- Woman in the Dark as Tony Robson
- Dangerous Corner as Charles Stanton
1933
- The Vampire Bat as Karl Brettschneider
- Counsellor at Law as Roy Darwin
- Nagana as Dr. Walter Tradnor
1932
- The Old Dark House as Penderel
- As You Desire Me as Count Bruno Varelli
- The Broken Wing as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
- The Wiser Sex as David Rolfe
- Prestige as Capt. Andre Verlaine
1931
- Tonight or Never as Jim Fletcher