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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Tenant (1976) — Monsieur Zy
2. Being There (1979) — Benjamin Rand
3. The Changeling (1980) — Senator Carmichael
4. Ninotchka (1939) — Count Leon d'Algout
5. Hud (1963) — Homer Bannon
6. The Old Dark House (1932) — Penderel
7. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) — Bill Cole
8. Captains Courageous (1937) — Frank Burton Cheyne
9. The Candidate (1972) — John J. McKay
10. Ghost Story (1981) — John Jaffrey
11. The Americanization of Emily (1964) — Admiral William Jessup
12. Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) — Zachariah Guthrie
13. Angel (1937) — Anthony 'Tony' Halton
14. Billy Budd (1962) — The Dansker, Sailmaker
15. The Vampire Bat (1933) — Karl Brettschneider
16. A Woman's Face (1941) — Dr. Gustaf Segert
17. The Fugitive (1963) — Dr. Mark Ryder
18. That Uncertain Feeling (1941) — Larry Baker
19. Theodora Goes Wild (1936) — Michael Grant
20. A Woman's Secret (1949) — Luke Jordan
21. I Never Sang for My Father (1970) — Tom Garrison
22. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) — (archive footage)
23. Rapture (1965) — Frederick Larbaud
24. Annie Oakley (1935) — Jeff Hogarth
25. The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) — Senator Birney
26. Counsellor at Law (1933) — Roy Darwin
27. The Sea of Grass (1947) — Brice Chamberlain
28. What's My Line? (1950) — Self
29. Two-Faced Woman (1941) — Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
30. Hotel (1967) — Warren Trent
31. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
32. Too Many Husbands (1940) — Henry Lowndes
33. The Shining Hour (1938) — Henry Linden
34. The Great Sinner (1949) — Armand De Glasse
35. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
36. My Forbidden Past (1951) — Paul Beaurevel
37. There's Always a Woman (1938) — William H. Reardon
38. Woman in the Dark (1934) — Tony Robson
39. The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947) — Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
40. The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) — John Randolph