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Melvyn Douglas

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

05/04/1901

Day of Death

04/08/1981
(80) 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 fath... Read More

Known For

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Hot Touch

Ghost Story

Tell Me a Riddle

The Changeling

Being There

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

The Making of a President

Filmography

Cast

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 Wi...

as Self (archive footage)

1982

The Hot Touch

as Max Reich

1981

Ghost Story

as Dr. John Jaffrey

1980

Tell Me a Riddle

as David

1980

The Changeling

as Senator Carmichael

1979

Being There

as Benjamin Rand

1979

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

as Senator Birney

1978

The Making of a President

1977

Intimate Strangers

as Donald's Father

1977

Portrait of Grandpa Doc

as Grandpa Doc

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Zachariah Guthrie

1976

The Tenant

as Monsieur Zy

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1974

Murder or Mercy

as Dr. Paul Harelson

1974

The Death Squad

as Police Captain Earl Kreski

1973

The Going Up of David Lev

as Grandfather

1972

The Candidate

as John J. McKay

1972

One Is a Lonely Number

as Joseph Provo

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1971

Death Takes a Holiday

as Judge Earl Chapman

1970

I Never Sang for My Father

as Tom Garrison

1970

Hunters Are for Killing

as Keller Floran

1969

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

as Self (archive footage)

1968

Companions in Nightmare

as Dr. Lawrence Strelson

1967

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

as Peter Schermann

1967

The Crucible

as Deputy Governor Danforth

1967

Hotel

as Warren Trent

1965

Inherit the Wind

as Henry Drummond

1965

Once Upon a Tractor

as Martin

1965

Rapture

as Frederick Larbaud

1964

The Americanization of Emily

as Admiral William Jessup

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Leon (archive footage)

1964

Advance to the Rear

as Col. Claude Brackenbury

1963

Hud

as Homer Bannon

1962

Billy Budd

as The Dansker, Sailmaker

1959

Judgment at Nuremberg

as Gen. Parker

1958

Old Man

as Self - Host

1958

The Plot to Kill Stalin

as Stalin

1957

The Greer Case

as Howard Hoagland

1951

On the Loose

as Frank Bradley

1951

My Forbidden Past

as Paul Beaurevel

1949

The Great Sinner

as Armand De Glasse

1949

A Woman's Secret

as Luke Jordan

1948

My Own True Love

as Clive Heath

1948

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

as Bill Cole

1947

The Sea of Grass

as Brice Chamberlain

1947

The Guilt of Janet Ames

as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb

1943

Three Hearts for Julia

as Jeff Seabrook

1942

They All Kissed the Bride

as Michael 'Mike' Holmes

1942

We Were Dancing

as Nicholas Prax

1941

Two-Faced Woman

as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake

1941

Our Wife

as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin

1941

A Woman's Face

as Dr. Gustaf Segert

1941

That Uncertain Feeling

as Larry Baker

1940

This Thing Called Love

as Tice Collins

1940

Third Finger, Left Hand

as Jeff Thompson

1940

He Stayed for Breakfast

as Paul Boliet

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

1940

Too Many Husbands

as Henry Lowndes

1939

The Amazing Mr. Williams

as Kenny Williams

1939

Ninotchka

as Count Leon d'Algout

1939

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

as Self

1939

Good Girls Go to Paris

as Ronald Brooke

1939

Tell No Tales

as Michael Cassidy

1939

From the Ends of the Earth

as Self

1939

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

as Melvyn Douglas

1938

There's That Woman Again

as William 'Bill' Reardon

1938

The Shining Hour

as Henry Linden

1938

That Certain Age

as Vincent Bullitt

1938

Fast Company

as Joel Sloane

1938

The Toy Wife

as George Sartoris

1938

There's Always a Woman

as William H. Reardon

1938

Arsène Lupin Returns

as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin

1937

I'll Take Romance

as James Guthrie

1937

Angel

as Anthony 'Tony' Halton

1937

Captains Courageous

as Frank Burton Cheyne

1937

I Met Him in Paris

as George Potter

1937

Women of Glamour

as Richard Stark

1936

Theodora Goes Wild

as Michael Grant

1936

The Gorgeous Hussy

as John Randolph

1936

And So They Were Married

as Stephen Blake

1935

The Lone Wolf Returns

as Michael Lanyard

1935

Annie Oakley

as Jeff Hogarth

1935

Mary Burns, Fugitive

as Barton Powell

1935

She Married Her Boss

as Richard Barclay

1935

The People's Enemy

as George R. 'Traps' Stuart

1934

Dangerous Corner

as Charles Stanton

1934

Woman in the Dark

as Tony Robson

1933

Counsellor at Law

as Roy Darwin

1933

Nagana

as Dr. Walter Tradnor

1933

The Vampire Bat

as Karl Brettschneider

1932

The Old Dark House

as Penderel

1932

As You Desire Me

as Count Bruno Varelli

1932

The Broken Wing

as Philip 'Phil' Marvin

1932

The Wiser Sex

as David Rolfe

1932

Prestige

as Capt. Andre Verlaine

1931

Tonight or Never

as Jim Fletcher