Melvyn Douglas
Known for Acting · 121 credits
- Born
- 1901-04-05
- Died
- 1981-08-04
- Place of birth
- Macon, Georgia, USA
- Also known as
- Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
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.
Known For
The Fugitive
1963
as Dr. Mark Ryder
What's My Line?
1950
as Self / Self - Panelist
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Richard Gordon / The Stranger
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Pat Konke
Ben Casey
1961
as Burton Strang
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
TV Shows (21)
The Fugitive
1963
as Dr. Mark Ryder
What's My Line?
1950
as Self / Self - Panelist
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Richard Gordon / The Stranger
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Pat Konke
Ben Casey
1961
as Burton Strang
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Studio One
1948
as Cyril Ritchard
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Lights Out
1949
Playhouse 90
1956
as Gen. Parker
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as James Strickland
Ghost Story
1972
as Grandpa
Your Show of Shows
1950
as Self - Guest Host / Self - Guest Performer
MGM Parade
1955
as Self / self
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Peter Schermann
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Henry Drummond / Galileo Galilei
Weekend Special
1977
as Grandpa Doc
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
General Electric Theater
1953
as Professor Arthur Barris
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
as Stateman Benjamin Franklin
Hollywood Off Beat
1952
as Steve Randall
Movies (100)
The Tenant
1976
as Monsieur Zy
The Changeling
1980
as Senator Carmichael
Being There
1979
as Benjamin Rand
Ghost Story
1981
as Dr. John Jaffrey
Our Wife
1941
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
The Candidate
1972
as John J. McKay
Hud
1963
as Homer Bannon
Ninotchka
1939
as Count Leon d'Algout
Captains Courageous
1937
as Frank Burton Cheyne
Prestige
1932
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
The Crucible
1967
as Deputy Governor Danforth
Annie Oakley
1935
as Jeff Hogarth
A Woman's Face
1941
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
The Sea of Grass
1947
as Brice Chamberlain
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Zachariah Guthrie
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
as Bill Cole
Angel
1937
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
The Old Dark House
1932
as Penderel
The Americanization of Emily
1964
as Admiral William Jessup
Hotel
1967
as Warren Trent
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
They All Kissed the Bride
1942
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
Fast Company
1938
as Joel Sloane
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
as Self
That Certain Age
1938
as Vincent Bullitt
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
as Senator Birney
Tell No Tales
1939
as Michael Cassidy
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
as Tom Garrison
The Hot Touch
1982
as Max Reich
Intimate Strangers
1977
as Donald's Father
Billy Budd
1962
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
A Woman's Secret
1949
as Luke Jordan
The Shining Hour
1938
as Henry Linden
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Leon (archive footage)
Nagana
1933
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
as Melvyn Douglas
The Great Sinner
1949
as Armand De Glasse
Women of Glamour
1937
as Richard Stark
She Married Her Boss
1935
as Richard Barclay
Two-Faced Woman
1941
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
Inherit the Wind
1965
as Henry Drummond
As You Desire Me
1932
as Count Bruno Varelli
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
as Stalin
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
Advance to the Rear
1964
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
There's Always a Woman
1938
as William H. Reardon
One Is a Lonely Number
1972
as Joseph Provo
We Were Dancing
1942
as Nicholas Prax
Rapture
1965
as Frederick Larbaud
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
as Jeff Thompson
The People's Enemy
1935
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
That Uncertain Feeling
1941
as Larry Baker
Hunters Are for Killing
1970
as Keller Floran
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
as Michael Grant
Old Man
1958
as Self - Host
My Own True Love
1948
as Clive Heath
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
as John Randolph
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
as Martin
The Toy Wife
1938
as George Sartoris
The Vampire Bat
1933
as Karl Brettschneider
Companions in Nightmare
1968
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
as (archive footage)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
as Peter Schermann
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
as Ronald Brooke
My Forbidden Past
1951
as Paul Beaurevel
The Greer Case
1957
as Howard Hoagland
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1977
as Grandpa Doc
Too Many Husbands
1940
as Henry Lowndes
This Thing Called Love
1940
as Tice Collins
Death Takes a Holiday
1971
as Judge Earl Chapman
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
as Kenny Williams
The Lone Wolf Returns
1935
as Michael Lanyard
I Met Him in Paris
1937
as George Potter
Woman in the Dark
1934
as Tony Robson
There's That Woman Again
1938
as William 'Bill' Reardon
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
as David
I'll Take Romance
1937
as James Guthrie
The Making of a President
1978
The Death Squad
1974
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
as Paul Boliet
Dangerous Corner
1934
as Charles Stanton
Counsellor at Law
1933
as Roy Darwin
The Going Up of David Lev
1973
as Grandfather
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
as Barton Powell
The Broken Wing
1932
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
as Gen. Parker
A Gift To Last
1976
as Old Clement Sturgess
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1969
as Self (archive footage)
Tonight or Never
1931
as Jim Fletcher
Three Hearts for Julia
1943
as Jeff Seabrook
The Wiser Sex
1932
as David Rolfe
On the Loose
1951
as Frank Bradley
Murder or Mercy
1974
as Dr. Paul Harelson
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939
as Self
And So They Were Married
1936
as Stephen Blake
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014
as Self (archive footage)
About Melvyn Douglas
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 sup… With 121 credits spanning from 1931 to 2014, Melvyn Douglas has appeared in 100 films and 21 TV shows.
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- The Tenant (1976) — as Monsieur Zy
- The Changeling (1980) — as Senator Carmichael
- Being There (1979) — as Benjamin Rand
- Ghost Story (1981) — as Dr. John Jaffrey
- Our Wife (1941) — as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
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