Melvyn Douglas
Acting1901Macon, 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
Acting History
2014
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1982
The Hot Touch
as Max Reich
1981
Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey
1980
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
Tell Me a Riddle
as David
1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
as Grandpa Doc
Weekend Special
TVas Grandpa Doc
1976
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
A Gift To Last
as Old Clement Sturgess
1974
The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul Harelson
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TVas Stateman Benjamin Franklin
1973
The Going Up of David Lev
as Grandfather
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
Ghost Story
TVas Grandpa
1971
Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl Chapman
1970
Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller Floran
I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
The Dick Cavett Show
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
1969
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
1967
Hotel
as Warren Trent
The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter Schermann
1966
The Fugitive
TVas Dr. Mark Ryder• 1 eps
CBS Playhouse
TVas Peter Schermann
1965
1964
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
Advance to the Rear
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)
1963
Hud
as Homer Bannon
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TVas Pat Konke• 1 eps
Ben Casey
TVas Burton Strang• 1 eps
1962
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
1959
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Gen. Parker
Playhouse 90
TVas Gen. Parker• 1 eps
1958
Old Man
as Self - Host
The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Stalin
1957
The Greer Case
as Howard Hoagland
What's My Line?
TVas Self / Self - Panelist• 1 eps
1955
MGM Parade
TVas self / Self
1953
General Electric Theater
TVas Professor Arthur Barris
1952
1951
My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Galileo Galilei / Henry Drummond
1950
Your Show of Shows
TVas Self - Guest Performer• 1 eps
Lux Video Theatre
TVas James Strickland
1949
The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
The Philco Television Playhouse
TVas The Stranger• 1 eps
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
My Own True Love
as Clive Heath
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self
1947
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
1943
Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff Seabrook
1942
They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
1941
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
1940
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Jeff Thompson
Too Many Husbands
as Henry Lowndes
He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul Boliet
This Thing Called Love
as Tice Collins
1939
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
Tell No Tales
as Michael Cassidy
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald Brooke
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny Williams
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1938
The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
1937
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
I Met Him in Paris
as George Potter
I'll Take Romance
as James Guthrie
Women of Glamour
as Richard Stark
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
1935
The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael Lanyard
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton Powell
Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
She Married Her Boss
as Richard Barclay
The People's Enemy
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
1934
Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
1933
1932
As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno Varelli
The Old Dark House
as Penderel
Prestige
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
The Wiser Sex
as David Rolfe
The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
1931
Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher