Melvyn Douglas
Born: 1901-04-05
Place of Birth: 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.
Known For
Arsène Lupin Returns
Hotel
Old Man
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Our Wife
Billy Budd
Captains Courageous
The Changeling
Ninotchka
Annie Oakley
Angel
Rapture
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Fast Company
Being There
Nagana
The Tenant
Hud
Murder or Mercy
A Woman's Face
The Americanization of Emily
Prestige
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
The Candidate
Ghost Story
The Great Sinner
The Sea of Grass
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Old Dark House
Tonight or Never
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
That Uncertain Feeling
Intimate Strangers
The Wiser Sex
The Toy Wife
This Thing Called Love
Twilight's Last Gleaming
The Greer Case
From the Ends of the Earth
I'll Take Romance
The Vampire Bat
Tell Me a Riddle
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Inherit the Wind
Theodora Goes Wild
As You Desire Me
The Crucible
The Lone Wolf Returns
We Were Dancing
A Woman's Secret
Advance to the Rear
The Amazing Mr. Williams
My Forbidden Past
The Hot Touch
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
She Married Her Boss
The Death Squad
The Gorgeous Hussy
The Big Parade of Comedy
The Shining Hour
Companions in Nightmare
They All Kissed the Bride
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
That Certain Age
Tell No Tales
Counsellor at Law
I Met Him in Paris
Two-Faced Woman
I Never Sang for My Father
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Too Many Husbands
Good Girls Go to Paris
There's Always a Woman
Hunters Are for Killing
Judgment at Nuremberg
Death Takes a Holiday
Three Hearts for Julia
One Is a Lonely Number
Dangerous Corner
Woman in the Dark
The Broken Wing
The Making of a President
And So They Were Married
On the Loose
There's That Woman Again
He Stayed for Breakfast
Women of Glamour
My Own True Love
Once Upon a Tractor
Third Finger, Left Hand
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
The Guilt of Janet Ames
The People's Enemy