Melvyn Douglas
Acting
- Born:
- 1901-04-05
- Died:
- 1981-08-04
- 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
Filmography
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
The Hot Touch
American Playhouse
Ghost Story
Tell Me a Riddle
The Changeling
Being There
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
The Making of a President
Intimate Strangers
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
ABC Weekend Specials
Twilight's Last Gleaming
A Gift To Last
The Tenant
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Murder or Mercy
The Death Squad
The Going Up of David Lev
Ghost Story
The Candidate
One Is a Lonely Number
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Death Takes a Holiday
I Never Sang for My Father
Hunters Are for Killing
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Companions in Nightmare
The Dick Cavett Show
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
The Crucible
Hotel
CBS Playhouse
Inherit the Wind
Once Upon a Tractor
Rapture
The Americanization of Emily
The Big Parade of Comedy
Advance to the Rear
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Fugitive
Hud
Billy Budd
Ben Casey
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Judgment at Nuremberg
Old Man
The Plot to Kill Stalin
The Greer Case
Playhouse 90
MGM Parade
General Electric Theater
Hollywood Off Beat
Hallmark Hall of Fame
On the Loose
My Forbidden Past
Lux Video Theatre
Your Show of Shows
What's My Line?
Lights Out
The Great Sinner
A Woman's Secret
Studio One
The Philco Television Playhouse
My Own True Love
The Ed Sullivan Show
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Sea of Grass
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Three Hearts for Julia
They All Kissed the Bride
We Were Dancing
Two-Faced Woman
Our Wife
A Woman's Face
That Uncertain Feeling
This Thing Called Love
Third Finger, Left Hand
He Stayed for Breakfast
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Too Many Husbands
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Ninotchka
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Good Girls Go to Paris
Tell No Tales
From the Ends of the Earth
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
There's That Woman Again
The Shining Hour
That Certain Age
Fast Company
The Toy Wife
There's Always a Woman
Arsène Lupin Returns
I'll Take Romance
Angel
Captains Courageous
I Met Him in Paris
Women of Glamour
Theodora Goes Wild
The Gorgeous Hussy
And So They Were Married
The Lone Wolf Returns
Annie Oakley
Mary Burns, Fugitive
She Married Her Boss
The People's Enemy
Dangerous Corner
Woman in the Dark
Counsellor at Law
Nagana
The Vampire Bat
The Old Dark House
As You Desire Me
The Broken Wing
The Wiser Sex
Prestige
Tonight or Never