Melvyn Douglas

Known For: Acting
Born: April 5, 1901
Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, USA
Died: August 4, 1981

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 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.

Filmography

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo

2014 · Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990 · (archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988 · Self (archive footage)

The Hot Touch

1982 · Max Reich

American Playhouse

1982 · David

Ghost Story

1981 · Dr. John Jaffrey

Tell Me a Riddle

1980 · David

The Changeling

1980 · Senator Carmichael

Being There

1979 · Benjamin Rand

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979 · Senator Birney

The Making of a President

1978

Intimate Strangers

1977 · Donald's Father

Portrait of Grandpa Doc

Portrait of Grandpa Doc

1977 · Grandpa Doc

Weekend Special

Weekend Special

1977 · Grandpa Doc

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977 · Zachariah Guthrie

A Gift To Last

1976 · Old Clement Sturgess

The Tenant

1976 · Monsieur Zy

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · (archive footage)

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

1974 · Stateman Benjamin Franklin

Murder or Mercy

1974 · Dr. Paul Harelson

The Death Squad

1974 · Police Captain Earl Kreski

The Going Up of David Lev

The Going Up of David Lev

1973 · Grandfather

Ghost Story

1972 · Grandpa

The Candidate

1972 · John J. McKay

One Is a Lonely Number

1972 · Joseph Provo

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972 · Self (archive footage)

Death Takes a Holiday

1971 · Judge Earl Chapman

I Never Sang for My Father

1970 · Tom Garrison

Hunters Are for Killing

1970 · Keller Floran

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

1969 · Self (archive footage)

Companions in Nightmare

1968 · Dr. Lawrence Strelson

The Dick Cavett Show

1968 · Self - Guest

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

1967 · Peter Schermann

The Crucible

1967 · Deputy Governor Danforth

Hotel

1967 · Warren Trent

CBS Playhouse

1966 · Peter Schermann

Inherit the Wind

1965 · Henry Drummond

Once Upon a Tractor

1965 · Martin

Rapture

1965 · Frederick Larbaud

The Americanization of Emily

1964 · Admiral William Jessup

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 · Leon (archive footage)

Advance to the Rear

1964 · Col. Claude Brackenbury

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963 · Pat Konke

The Fugitive

1963 · Dr. Mark Ryder

Hud

1963 · Homer Bannon

Billy Budd

1962 · The Dansker, Sailmaker

Ben Casey

1961 · Burton Strang

Kraft Mystery Theatre

1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

1959 · Gen. Parker

Old Man

1958 · Self - Host

The Plot to Kill Stalin

1958 · Stalin

The Greer Case

1957 · Howard Hoagland

Playhouse 90

1956 · Gen. Parker

MGM Parade

1955 · Self, self

General Electric Theater

1953 · Professor Arthur Barris

Hollywood Off Beat

Hollywood Off Beat

1952 · Steve Randall

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Henry Drummond, Galileo Galilei

On the Loose

1951 · Frank Bradley

My Forbidden Past

1951 · Paul Beaurevel

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

1950 · James Strickland

Your Show of Shows

1950 · Self - Guest Host, Self - Guest Performer

What's My Line?

1950 · Self

Lights Out

1949

The Great Sinner

1949 · Armand De Glasse

A Woman's Secret

1949 · Luke Jordan

Studio One

1948 · Cyril Ritchard

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948 · Richard Gordon, The Stranger

My Own True Love

1948 · Clive Heath

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

1948 · Bill Cole

The Sea of Grass

1947 · Brice Chamberlain

The Guilt of Janet Ames

1947 · Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb

Three Hearts for Julia

1943 · Jeff Seabrook

They All Kissed the Bride

1942 · Michael 'Mike' Holmes

We Were Dancing

1942 · Nicholas Prax

Two-Faced Woman

1941 · Lawrence 'Larry' Blake

Our Wife

1941 · Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin

A Woman's Face

1941 · Dr. Gustaf Segert

That Uncertain Feeling

1941 · Larry Baker

This Thing Called Love

1940 · Tice Collins

Third Finger, Left Hand

1940 · Jeff Thompson

He Stayed for Breakfast

1940 · Paul Boliet

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940 · Self

Too Many Husbands

1940 · Henry Lowndes

The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939 · Kenny Williams

Ninotchka

1939 · Count Leon d'Algout

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

1939 · Self

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939 · Ronald Brooke

Tell No Tales

1939 · Michael Cassidy

From the Ends of the Earth

1939 · Self

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

1939 · Melvyn Douglas

There's That Woman Again

1938 · William 'Bill' Reardon

The Shining Hour

1938 · Henry Linden

That Certain Age

1938 · Vincent Bullitt

Fast Company

1938 · Joel Sloane

The Toy Wife

1938 · George Sartoris

There's Always a Woman

1938 · William H. Reardon

Arsène Lupin Returns

1938 · Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin

I'll Take Romance

1937 · James Guthrie

Angel

1937 · Anthony 'Tony' Halton

Captains Courageous

1937 · Frank Burton Cheyne

I Met Him in Paris

1937 · George Potter

Women of Glamour

1937 · Richard Stark

Theodora Goes Wild

1936 · Michael Grant

The Gorgeous Hussy

1936 · John Randolph

And So They Were Married

1936 · Stephen Blake

The Lone Wolf Returns

1935 · Michael Lanyard

Annie Oakley

1935 · Jeff Hogarth

Mary Burns, Fugitive

1935 · Barton Powell

She Married Her Boss

1935 · Richard Barclay

The People's Enemy

1935 · George R. 'Traps' Stuart

Dangerous Corner

1934 · Charles Stanton

Woman in the Dark

1934 · Tony Robson

Counsellor at Law

1933 · Roy Darwin

Nagana

1933 · Dr. Walter Tradnor

The Vampire Bat

1933 · Karl Brettschneider

The Old Dark House

1932 · Penderel

As You Desire Me

1932 · Count Bruno Varelli

The Broken Wing

1932 · Philip 'Phil' Marvin

The Wiser Sex

1932 · David Rolfe

Prestige

1932 · Capt. Andre Verlaine

Tonight or Never

1931 · Jim Fletcher

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