Acting
Melvyn Douglas
SV, EN cinema · 100 credits
Born
5 April 1901
Died
4 August 1981 (aged 80)
Birthplace
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
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
Filmography
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
as Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
The Hot Touch
as Max Reich
Ghost Story
as John Jaffrey
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
Tell Me a Riddle
as David
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
A Gift To Last
1976
A Gift To Last
as Old Clement Sturgess
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul Harelson
The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl Chapman
I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller Floran
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
as Self (archive footage)
Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
Hotel
as Warren Trent
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter Schermann
The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
Once Upon a Tractor
as Martin
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)
Hud
as Homer Bannon
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Gen. Parker
Old Man
as Self - Host
The Greer Case
as Howard Hoagland
My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
My Own True Love
as Clive Heath
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff Seabrook
They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
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
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
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
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
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
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
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
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
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
Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
Counsellor at Law
as Roy Darwin
Nagana
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
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
Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher