- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 11, 1907
- Place of Birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- September 11, 1959
Paul Douglas
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 …
Filmography
movieBarbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Mating Game
1959 · Pop Larkin
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
movieThe Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1958
tvWestinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
movieFortunella
1958 · Professore Golfiero Paganica
tvThe Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957 · Paul Douglas
tvSuspicion
1957 · Vince Polito
movieBeau James
1957 · Chris Nolan
movieThis Could Be the Night
1957 · Rocco
movieThe Gamma People
1956 · Mike Wilson
movieBorn Yesterday
1956 · Harry Brock
tvThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Self
tvDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Sheriff Jonas Sutton
movieThe Solid Gold Cadillac
1956 · Edward L. McKeever
Adventure Theater
tvAdventure Theater
1956 · Host
movieThe Leather Saint
1956 · Gus MacAuliffe
movieJoe Macbeth
1955 · Joe MacBeth
tvThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Playwrights '56
tvPlaywrights '56
1955
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Bill Fleming
movieGreen Fire
1954 · Vic Leonard
tvClimax!
1954 · Dr. Merle Gardner, Lieutenant Todd Thoman
Calling Scotland Yard: The Man Who Stayed Alive
movieCalling Scotland Yard: The Man Who Stayed Alive
1954 · Host
The Man Who Stayed Alive
movieThe Man Who Stayed Alive
1954 · Self - Host
movieExecutive Suite
1954 · Josiah Walter Dudley
movieThe 'Maggie'
1954 · Calvin B. Marshall, the American
movieCalling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
1954 · Commentator
movieForever Female
1953 · Harry Phillips
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self
movieNever Wave at a WAC
1953 · Andrew McBain
movieWe're Not Married!
1952 · Hector Woodruff
movieClash by Night
1952 · Jerry D'Amato
movieWhen in Rome
1952 · Joe Brewster
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Harry Brock
movieAngels in the Outfield
1951 · Guffy McGovern
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Frank Parisi
movieRhubarb
1951 · Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
movieThe Guy Who Came Back
1951 · Harry Joplin
movieFourteen Hours
1951 · Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan
The Screen Director
movieThe Screen Director
1951 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lux Video Theatre
tvLux Video Theatre
1950 · Rick Blaine
tvThe Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
moviePanic in the Streets
1950 · Capt. Tom Warren
movieLove That Brute
1950 · E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley
movieThe Big Lift
1950 · MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski
movieYou Can Change The World
1950 · Self
tvYour Show of Shows
1950
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self
movieEverybody Does It
1949 · Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
movieIt Happens Every Spring
1949 · Monk Lanigan
movieA Letter to Three Wives
1949 · Porter Hollingsway
tvStudio One
1948 · Paul Kadsoe, Captain McCaffrey
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Magic of Youth
movieMagic of Youth
1946 · Narrator
Hour Glass
tvHour Glass
1946
movieMargin for Error
1943 · Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)
Filming the Fleet
movieFilming the Fleet
1939 · Self, Narrator
movieConquering the Colorado
1939 · Narrator
Saturday Night Swing Club
movieSaturday Night Swing Club
1938 · Master of Ceremonies