Paul Douglas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 11, 1907
- Died
- September 11, 1959 (aged 52)
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Paul Douglas (April 11, 1907 – September 11, 1959) was an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Paul Douglas Fleischer, Douglas began his career as a stage actor. He made his Broadway debut in 1936 as the Radio Announcer in Doty Hobart and Tom McKnight's Double Dummy at the John Golden Theatre. In 1946 he won both a Theatre World Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Herry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. Douglas began appearing in films in 1949. He may be best-remembered for two baseball comedy movies, Angels in the Outfield (1951) and It Happens Every Spring (1949). He also played Richard Widmark's police partner in the thriller Panic in the Streets, frustrated newlywed Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives, Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift, businessman Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite and a con man turned monk in When in Rome. In 1950, Douglas was host of the 22nd annual Academy Awards. Douglas also worked on radio as the announcer for The Ed Wynn Show and he was the first host of NBC Radio's "Horn & Hardart Children's Hour!". In April 1959 Douglas appeared as Lucy Ricardo's television morning show boss in the "Lucy Wants a Career" episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Douglas was originally cast in the 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Mighty Casey", a role written for him by Rod Serling, based on his character in Angels in the Outfield, but Douglas died the same week after production of the episode had been completed. His role was taken over by Jack Warden, and most of the episode was refilmed several months later. He was married five times, last to actress Jan Sterling from 1950 until his death. They had a son, Adams Douglas (1955–2003). Paul Douglas died on September 11, 1959 of a heart attack in Hollywood, California at the age of 52. Film director Billy Wilder and co-writer I.A.L. ('Izzy') Diamond had just offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the movie The Apartment that went to Fred MacMurray instead. Wilder later said: "I saw him and his wife, Jan Sterling, at a restaurant, and I realized he was perfect, and I asked him right there in the parking lot. About two days before we were to start, he had a heart attack and died. Iz and I were shattered." Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Mating Game
Movie · as Pop Larkin
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Movie
Fortunella
Movie · as Professore Golfiero Paganica
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
This Could Be the Night
Movie · as Rocco
Beau James
Movie · as Chris Nolan
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
TV · as Paul Douglas · 1 ep
Suspicion
TV · as Vince Polito · 1 ep
The Gamma People
Movie · as Mike Wilson
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Movie · as Edward L. McKeever
The Leather Saint
Movie · as Gus MacAuliffe
Born Yesterday
Movie · as Harry Brock
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Sheriff Jonas Sutton · 1 ep
Adventure Theater
TV · as Host · 11 eps
Joe Macbeth
Movie · as Joe MacBeth
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Bill Fleming · 1 ep
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · 1 ep
Playwrights '56
TV · 1 ep
Executive Suite
Movie · as Josiah Walter Dudley
The 'Maggie'
Movie · as Calvin B. Marshall, the American
Green Fire
Movie · as Vic Leonard
Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
Movie · as Commentator
The Man Who Stayed Alive
Movie · as Self - Host
Calling Scotland Yard: The Man Who Stayed Alive
Movie · as Host
Climax!
TV · as Dr. Merle Gardner, Lieutenant Todd Thoman · 1 ep
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie · as Andrew McBain
Forever Female
Movie · as Harry Phillips
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
We're Not Married!
Movie · as Hector Woodruff
Clash by Night
Movie · as Jerry D'Amato
When in Rome
Movie · as Joe Brewster
Angels in the Outfield
Movie · as Guffy McGovern
Fourteen Hours
Movie · as Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan
The Guy Who Came Back
Movie · as Harry Joplin
The Screen Director
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rhubarb
Movie · as Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Harry Brock · 1 ep
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Frank Parisi · 1 ep
Panic in the Streets
Movie · as Capt. Tom Warren
The Big Lift
Movie · as MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski
Love That Brute
Movie · as E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley
You Can Change The World
Movie · as Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Rick Blaine · 1 ep
Your Show of Shows
TV · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
A Letter to Three Wives
Movie · as Porter Hollingsway
It Happens Every Spring
Movie · as Monk Lanigan
Everybody Does It
Movie · as Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
Studio One
TV · as Paul Kadsoe, Captain McCaffrey · 1 ep
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Magic of Youth
Movie · as Narrator
Hour Glass
TV · 1 ep
Margin for Error
Movie · as Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)
Filming the Fleet
Movie · as Self, Narrator
Conquering the Colorado
Movie · as Narrator
Saturday Night Swing Club
Movie · as Master of Ceremonies