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Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-04-05 (124 years old)

Place of Birth

Macon, Georgia, USA

Melvyn Douglas

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.

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Known For

Acting

1990

1988

1982

The Hot Touch as Max Reich

1981

Ghost Story as Dr. John Jaffrey

1980

The Changeling as Senator Carmichael

1979

Being There as Benjamin Rand
The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Senator Birney

1978

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming as Zachariah Guthrie
Intimate Strangers as Donald's Father
Weekend Special as Grandpa Doc

1976

The Tenant as Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)

1974

Murder or Mercy as Dr. Paul Harelson
The Death Squad as Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Stateman Benjamin Franklin

1973

1972

The Candidate as John J. McKay
One Is a Lonely Number as Joseph Provo
Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
Ghost Story as Grandpa

1971

Death Takes a Holiday as Judge Earl Chapman

1970

Hunters Are for Killing as Keller Floran

1968

Companions in Nightmare as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Hotel as Warren Trent
The Crucible as Deputy Governor Danforth

1966

CBS Playhouse as Peter Schermann

1965

Rapture as Frederick Larbaud
Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond

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
The Fugitive as Dr. Mark Ryder

1962

Billy Budd as The Dansker, Sailmaker

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ben Casey as Burton Strang

1959

Judgment at Nuremberg as Gen. Parker

1958

Old Man as Self - Host

1957

The Greer Case as Howard Hoagland

1956

Playhouse 90 as Gen. Parker

1953

General Electric Theater as Professor Arthur Barris

1952

Hollywood Off Beat as Steve Randall

1951

My Forbidden Past as Paul Beaurevel
On the Loose as Frank Bradley
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Henry Drummond
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Galileo Galilei

1950

Lux Video Theatre as James Strickland
Your Show of Shows as Self - Guest Host
Your Show of Shows as Self - Guest Performer
What's My Line? as Self - Panelist

1949

A Woman's Secret as Luke Jordan
The Great Sinner as Armand De Glasse

1948

My Own True Love as Clive Heath
Studio One as Cyril Ritchard

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

A Woman's Face as Dr. Gustaf Segert
That Uncertain Feeling as Larry Baker
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
This Thing Called Love as Tice Collins

1939

Ninotchka as Count Leon d'Algout
Tell No Tales as Michael Cassidy
Good Girls Go to Paris as Ronald Brooke
The Amazing Mr. Williams as Kenny Williams

1938

That Certain Age as Vincent Bullitt
The Shining Hour as Henry Linden
Arsène Lupin Returns as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
There's Always a Woman as William H. Reardon
The Toy Wife as George Sartoris
Fast Company as Joel Sloane
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 'Dick' Stark

1936

Theodora Goes Wild as Michael Grant
The Gorgeous Hussy as John Randolph
And So They Were Married as Stephen Blake

1935

Annie Oakley as Jeff Hogarth
She Married Her Boss as Richard Barclay
The People's Enemy as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
Mary Burns, Fugitive as Barton Powell
The Lone Wolf Returns as Michael Lanyard

1934

Dangerous Corner as Charles Stanton
Woman in the Dark as Tony Robson

1933

The Vampire Bat as Karl Brettschneider
Counsellor at Law as Roy Darwin
Nagana as Dr. Walter Tradnor

1932

The Old Dark House as Penderel
As You Desire Me as Count Bruno Varelli
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