People
Melvyn Douglas
- Name: Melvyn Douglas
- Birthday: 1901-04-05
- Also known as: Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
- Place of birth: Macon, Georgia, USA
- Popularity: 2.988
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
| The Hot Touch as Max Reich | 1982-12-10 |
| Ghost Story as Dr. John Jaffrey | 1981-12-18 |
| Tell Me a Riddle as David | 1980-12-15 |
| The Changeling as Senator Carmichael | 1980-03-28 |
| Being There as Benjamin Rand | 1979-12-19 |
| The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Senator Birney | 1979-08-17 |
| The Making of a President | 1978-01-01 |
| Intimate Strangers as Donald's Father | 1977-11-11 |
| Portrait of Grandpa Doc as Grandpa Doc | 1977-11-05 |
| Twilight's Last Gleaming as Zachariah Guthrie | 1977-02-09 |
| The Tenant as Monsieur Zy | 1976-05-26 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Murder or Mercy as Dr. Paul Harelson | 1974-04-10 |
| The Death Squad as Police Captain Earl Kreski | 1974-01-08 |
| The Going Up of David Lev as Grandfather | 1973-04-25 |
| The Candidate as John J. McKay | 1972-06-29 |
| One Is a Lonely Number as Joseph Provo | 1972-06-19 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage) | 1972-01-10 |
| Death Takes a Holiday as Judge Earl Chapman | 1971-10-23 |
| I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison | 1970-10-18 |
| Hunters Are for Killing as Keller Floran | 1970-03-12 |
| Companions in Nightmare as Dr. Lawrence Strelson | 1968-11-23 |
| Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night as Peter Schermann | 1967-10-17 |
| The Crucible as Deputy Governor Danforth | 1967-05-04 |
| Hotel as Warren Trent | 1967-01-19 |
| Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond | 1965-11-18 |
| Once Upon a Tractor as Martin | 1965-09-09 |
| Rapture as Frederick Larbaud | 1965-08-23 |
| The Americanization of Emily as Admiral William Jessup | 1964-10-27 |
| The Big Parade of Comedy as Leon (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
| Advance to the Rear as Col. Claude Brackenbury | 1964-06-10 |
| Hud as Homer Bannon | 1963-05-28 |
| Billy Budd as The Dansker, Sailmaker | 1962-11-12 |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
| Judgment at Nuremberg as Gen. Parker | 1959-04-16 |
| Old Man as Self - Host | 1958-11-20 |
| The Plot to Kill Stalin as Stalin | 1958-09-25 |
| The Greer Case as Howard Hoagland | 1957-01-31 |
| On the Loose as Frank Bradley | 1951-09-28 |
| My Forbidden Past as Paul Beaurevel | 1951-04-25 |
| The Great Sinner as Armand De Glasse | 1949-06-29 |
| A Woman's Secret as Luke Jordan | 1949-01-13 |
| My Own True Love as Clive Heath | 1948-07-01 |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Bill Cole | 1948-03-25 |
| The Sea of Grass as Brice Chamberlain | 1947-04-25 |
| The Guilt of Janet Ames as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb | 1947-03-06 |
| Three Hearts for Julia as Jeff Seabrook | 1943-05-21 |
| They All Kissed the Bride as Michael 'Mike' Holmes | 1942-06-11 |
| We Were Dancing as Nicholas Prax | 1942-04-30 |
| Two-Faced Woman as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake | 1941-12-31 |
| Our Wife as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin | 1941-08-20 |
| A Woman's Face as Dr. Gustaf Segert | 1941-05-09 |
| That Uncertain Feeling as Larry Baker | 1941-04-20 |
| This Thing Called Love as Tice Collins | 1940-12-20 |
| Third Finger, Left Hand as Jeff Thompson | 1940-10-11 |
| He Stayed for Breakfast as Paul Boliet | 1940-08-31 |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self | 1940-07-31 |
| Too Many Husbands as Henry Lowndes | 1940-04-03 |
| Ninotchka as Count Leon d'Algout | 1939-11-23 |
| The Amazing Mr. Williams as Kenny Williams | 1939-11-22 |
| Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 as Self | 1939-09-22 |
| Good Girls Go to Paris as Ronald Brooke | 1939-06-20 |
| Tell No Tales as Michael Cassidy | 1939-06-12 |
| From the Ends of the Earth as Self | 1939-05-28 |
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as Melvyn Douglas | 1939-04-08 |
| There's That Woman Again as William 'Bill' Reardon | 1938-12-24 |
| The Shining Hour as Henry Linden | 1938-11-18 |
| That Certain Age as Vincent Bullitt | 1938-10-06 |
| Fast Company as Joel Sloane | 1938-07-05 |
| The Toy Wife as George Sartoris | 1938-06-10 |
| There's Always a Woman as William H. Reardon | 1938-04-20 |
| Arsène Lupin Returns as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin | 1938-02-25 |
| I'll Take Romance as James Guthrie | 1937-11-17 |
| Angel as Anthony 'Tony' Halton | 1937-10-29 |
| Captains Courageous as Frank Burton Cheyne | 1937-06-25 |
| I Met Him in Paris as George Potter | 1937-05-28 |
| Women of Glamour as Richard 'Dick' Stark | 1937-03-09 |
| Theodora Goes Wild as Michael Grant | 1936-11-12 |
| The Gorgeous Hussy as John Randolph | 1936-08-28 |
| And So They Were Married as Stephen Blake | 1936-05-10 |
| The Lone Wolf Returns as Michael Lanyard | 1935-12-31 |
| Mary Burns, Fugitive as Barton Powell | 1935-11-15 |
| Annie Oakley as Jeff Hogarth | 1935-11-15 |
| She Married Her Boss as Richard Barclay | 1935-09-19 |
| The People's Enemy as George R. 'Traps' Stuart | 1935-04-29 |
| Dangerous Corner as Charles Stanton | 1934-12-04 |
| Woman in the Dark as Tony Robson | 1934-11-08 |
| Counsellor at Law as Roy Darwin | 1933-12-25 |
| Nagana as Dr. Walter Tradnor | 1933-02-01 |
| The Vampire Bat as Karl Brettschneider | 1933-01-21 |
| The Old Dark House as Penderel | 1932-10-20 |
| As You Desire Me as Count Bruno Varelli | 1932-05-28 |
| The Broken Wing as Philip 'Phil' Marvin | 1932-03-25 |
| The Wiser Sex as David Rolfe | 1932-03-14 |
| Prestige as Capt. Andre Verlaine | 1931-12-30 |
| Tonight or Never as Jim Fletcher | 1931-01-04 |
