
Melvyn Douglas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 5, 1901
- Died
- August 4, 1981 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Macon, Georgia, USA
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.
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Filmography

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Movie · as (archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Hot Touch
Movie · as Max Reich

American Playhouse
TV · as David · 1 ep

Ghost Story
Movie · as John Jaffrey

The Changeling
Movie · as Senator Carmichael

Tell Me a Riddle
Movie · as David

Being There
Movie · as Benjamin Rand

The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Movie · as Senator Birney

The Making of a President
Movie

Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie · as Zachariah Guthrie

Intimate Strangers
Movie · as Donald's Father
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Movie · as Grandpa Doc

ABC Weekend Specials
TV · as Grandpa Doc · 1 ep

The Tenant
Movie · as Monsieur Zy

That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie · as (archive footage)
A Gift To Last
Movie · as Old Clement Sturgess

Murder or Mercy
Movie · as Dr. Paul Harelson

The Death Squad
Movie · as Police Captain Earl Kreski

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV · as Stateman Benjamin Franklin · 4 eps
The Going Up of David Lev
Movie · as Grandfather

The Candidate
Movie · as John J. McKay

One Is a Lonely Number
Movie · as Joseph Provo

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Ghost Story
TV · as Grandpa · 1 ep

Death Takes a Holiday
Movie · as Judge Earl Chapman

I Never Sang for My Father
Movie · as Tom Garrison

Hunters Are for Killing
Movie · as Keller Floran

Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Companions in Nightmare
Movie · as Dr. Lawrence Strelson

The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

Hotel
Movie · as Warren Trent

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Movie · as Peter Schermann

The Crucible
Movie · as Deputy Governor Danforth
CBS Playhouse
TV · as Peter Schermann · 1 ep

Rapture
Movie · as Frederick Larbaud

Inherit the Wind
Movie · as Henry Drummond

Once Upon a Tractor
Movie · as Martin

The Americanization of Emily
Movie · as Admiral William Jessup

Advance to the Rear
Movie · as Col. Claude Brackenbury

The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie · as Leon (archive footage)

Hud
Movie · as Homer Bannon

The Fugitive
TV · as Dr. Mark Ryder · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as Pat Konke · 1 ep

Billy Budd
Movie · as The Dansker, Sailmaker

Ben Casey
TV · as Burton Strang · 1 ep

Kraft Mystery Theatre
TV · 1 ep

Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie · as Gen. Parker

The Plot to Kill Stalin
Movie · as Stalin

Old Man
Movie · as Self - Host

The Greer Case
Movie · as Howard Hoagland

Playhouse 90
TV · as Gen. Parker · 1 ep

MGM Parade
TV · as Self, self · 1 ep

General Electric Theater
TV · as Professor Arthur Barris · 1 ep
Hollywood Off Beat
TV · as Steve Randall · 13 eps

My Forbidden Past
Movie · as Paul Beaurevel

On the Loose
Movie · as Frank Bradley

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Henry Drummond, Galileo Galilei · 1 ep

Lux Video Theatre
TV · as James Strickland · 1 ep

Your Show of Shows
TV · as Self - Guest Host, Self - Guest Performer · 1 ep

What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 2 eps

A Woman's Secret
Movie · as Luke Jordan

The Great Sinner
Movie · as Armand De Glasse

Lights Out
TV · 1 ep

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Movie · as Bill Cole

My Own True Love
Movie · as Clive Heath

Studio One
TV · as Cyril Ritchard · 1 ep

The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as Richard Gordon, The Stranger · 1 ep

The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Guilt of Janet Ames
Movie · as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb

The Sea of Grass
Movie · as Brice Chamberlain

Three Hearts for Julia
Movie · as Jeff Seabrook

They All Kissed the Bride
Movie · as Michael 'Mike' Holmes

We Were Dancing
Movie · as Nicholas Prax

A Woman's Face
Movie · as Dr. Gustaf Segert

That Uncertain Feeling
Movie · as Larry Baker

Our Wife
Movie · as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin

Two-Faced Woman
Movie · as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake

Third Finger, Left Hand
Movie · as Jeff Thompson

Too Many Husbands
Movie · as Henry Lowndes

He Stayed for Breakfast
Movie · as Paul Boliet

This Thing Called Love
Movie · as Tice Collins

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie · as Self

Ninotchka
Movie · as Count Leon d'Algout

Tell No Tales
Movie · as Michael Cassidy

Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie · as Ronald Brooke

The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie · as Kenny Williams

From the Ends of the Earth
Movie · as Self
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Movie · as Self

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Movie · as Melvyn Douglas

That Certain Age
Movie · as Vincent Bullitt

The Shining Hour
Movie · as Henry Linden

Arsène Lupin Returns
Movie · as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin

There's Always a Woman
Movie · as William H. Reardon

The Toy Wife
Movie · as George Sartoris

Fast Company
Movie · as Joel Sloane

There's That Woman Again
Movie · as William 'Bill' Reardon

Angel
Movie · as Anthony 'Tony' Halton

Captains Courageous
Movie · as Frank Burton Cheyne

I Met Him in Paris
Movie · as George Potter

I'll Take Romance
Movie · as James Guthrie

Women of Glamour
Movie · as Richard Stark

Theodora Goes Wild
Movie · as Michael Grant

The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie · as John Randolph

And So They Were Married
Movie · as Stephen Blake

Annie Oakley
Movie · as Jeff Hogarth

She Married Her Boss
Movie · as Richard Barclay

The People's Enemy
Movie · as George R. 'Traps' Stuart

Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie · as Barton Powell

The Lone Wolf Returns
Movie · as Michael Lanyard

Dangerous Corner
Movie · as Charles Stanton

Woman in the Dark
Movie · as Tony Robson

The Vampire Bat
Movie · as Karl Brettschneider

Counsellor at Law
Movie · as Roy Darwin

Nagana
Movie · as Dr. Walter Tradnor

The Old Dark House
Movie · as Penderel

As You Desire Me
Movie · as Count Bruno Varelli

Prestige
Movie · as Capt. Andre Verlaine

The Wiser Sex
Movie · as David Rolfe

The Broken Wing
Movie · as Philip 'Phil' Marvin

Tonight or Never
Movie · as Jim Fletcher



