Melvyn Douglas

Actor Apr 5 (died age 80) Macon, Georgia, USA 1931–2014 (83 year career)

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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 yea…

Known For

Film

The Tenant

Monsieur Zy

Film

Being There

Benjamin Rand

Film

The Changeling

Senator Carmichael

Film

Ninotchka

Count Leon d'Algout

Film

Hud

Homer Bannon

Film

Captains Courageous

Frank Burton Cheyne

Film

The Old Dark House

Penderel

Film

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Bill Cole

Filmography

Acting (120)

Movies (100)

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo

2014

as Self (archive footage)

3.0

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990

as (archive footage)

9.0

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

The Hot Touch

as Max Reich

Ghost Story

as Dr. John Jaffrey

The Changeling

as Senator Carmichael

Tell Me a Riddle

as David

Being There

as Benjamin Rand

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979

as Senator Birney

5.7

The Making of a President

1978

Intimate Strangers

1977

as Donald's Father

5.0

Portrait of Grandpa Doc

1977

as Grandpa Doc

2.0

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Zachariah Guthrie

The Tenant

as Monsieur Zy

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

6.9

A Gift To Last

1976

as Old Clement Sturgess

Murder or Mercy

1974

as Dr. Paul Harelson

The Death Squad

1974

as Police Captain Earl Kreski

6.8

The Going Up of David Lev

1973

as Grandfather

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

The Candidate

1972

as John J. McKay

6.5

One Is a Lonely Number

1972

as Joseph Provo

4.6

Death Takes a Holiday

1971

as Judge Earl Chapman

4.5

I Never Sang for My Father

1970

as Tom Garrison

6.6

Hunters Are for Killing

1970

as Keller Floran

4.5

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

1969

as Self (archive footage)

4.0

Companions in Nightmare

1968

as Dr. Lawrence Strelson

Hotel

as Warren Trent

The Crucible

as Deputy Governor Danforth

2.7

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

1967

as Peter Schermann

Rapture

as Frederick Larbaud

Inherit the Wind

as Henry Drummond

Once Upon a Tractor

as Martin

The Americanization of Emily

1964

as Admiral William Jessup

6.6

Advance to the Rear

1964

as Col. Claude Brackenbury

5.0

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964

as Leon (archive footage)

Hud

as Homer Bannon

Billy Budd

as The Dansker, Sailmaker

7.3

Judgment at Nuremberg

1959

as Gen. Parker

Old Man

1958

as Self - Host

The Plot to Kill Stalin

1958

as Stalin

The Greer Case

1957

as Howard Hoagland

My Forbidden Past

as Paul Beaurevel

On the Loose

as Frank Bradley

The Great Sinner

as Armand De Glasse

A Woman's Secret

as Luke Jordan

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

as Bill Cole

My Own True Love

as Clive Heath

The Sea of Grass

as Brice Chamberlain

The Guilt of Janet Ames

1947

as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb

5.7

Three Hearts for Julia

as Jeff Seabrook

We Were Dancing

as Nicholas Prax

They All Kissed the Bride

1942

as Michael 'Mike' Holmes

A Woman's Face

as Dr. Gustaf Segert

Our Wife

as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin

5.7

That Uncertain Feeling

1941

as Larry Baker

6.6

Two-Faced Woman

1941

as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake

6.4

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

Too Many Husbands

as Henry Lowndes

This Thing Called Love

1940

as Tice Collins

8.0

He Stayed for Breakfast

1940

as Paul Boliet

Third Finger, Left Hand

1940

as Jeff Thompson

6.8

Ninotchka

1939

as Count Leon d'Algout

7.5

From the Ends of the Earth

1939

as Self

The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939

as Kenny Williams

5.8

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

1939

as Self

6.0

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

as Melvyn Douglas

Tell No Tales

as Michael Cassidy

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939

as Ronald Brooke

7.0

Arsène Lupin Returns

1938

as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin

Fast Company

as Joel Sloane

That Certain Age

as Vincent Bullitt

The Toy Wife

as George Sartoris

The Shining Hour

as Henry Linden

There's Always a Woman

1938

as William H. Reardon

5.8

There's That Woman Again

1938

as William 'Bill' Reardon

5.8

Captains Courageous

1937

as Frank Burton Cheyne

7.4

Angel

1937

as Anthony 'Tony' Halton

I Met Him in Paris

as George Potter

I'll Take Romance

as James Guthrie

Women of Glamour

as Richard Stark

Theodora Goes Wild

as Michael Grant

The Gorgeous Hussy

as John Randolph

And So They Were Married

1936

as Stephen Blake

5.8

The People's Enemy

1935

as George R. 'Traps' Stuart

6.0

The Lone Wolf Returns

as Michael Lanyard

Annie Oakley

as Jeff Hogarth

Mary Burns, Fugitive

as Barton Powell

She Married Her Boss

as Richard Barclay

Woman in the Dark

as Tony Robson

Dangerous Corner

as Charles Stanton

Nagana

as Dr. Walter Tradnor

Counsellor at Law

1933

as Roy Darwin

6.4

The Vampire Bat

1933

as Karl Brettschneider

The Old Dark House

as Penderel

As You Desire Me

as Count Bruno Varelli

6.3

Prestige

1932

as Capt. Andre Verlaine

The Wiser Sex

as David Rolfe

The Broken Wing

as Philip 'Phil' Marvin

5.0

Tonight or Never

1931

as Jim Fletcher

5.9

Television (20)

Weekend Special

1977

as Grandpa Doc

7.6

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

1974

as Stateman Benjamin Franklin

Ghost Story

as Grandpa

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

CBS Playhouse

as Peter Schermann

The Fugitive

as Dr. Mark Ryder

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as Pat Konke

Ben Casey

as Burton Strang

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Playhouse 90

as Gen. Parker

General Electric Theater

1953

as Professor Arthur Barris

6.4

Hollywood Off Beat

1952

as Steve Randall

7.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Henry Drummond

What's My Line?

as Self

Your Show of Shows

as Self - Guest Host

Lux Video Theatre

as James Strickland

Lights Out

The Philco Television Playhouse

as Richard Gordon

Studio One

as Cyril Ritchard

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self