Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 05, 1901
Died
Aug 04, 1981
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Credits
122 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
The Hot Touch
Max Reich
American Playhouse
David
Ghost Story
Dr. John Jaffrey
Tell Me a Riddle
David
The Changeling
Senator Carmichael
Being There
Benjamin Rand
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Senator Birney
The Making of a President
Intimate Strangers
Donald's Father
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Grandpa Doc
Weekend Special
Grandpa Doc
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Zachariah Guthrie
A Gift To Last
Old Clement Sturgess
The Tenant
Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Stateman Benjamin Franklin
Murder or Mercy
Dr. Paul Harelson
The Death Squad
Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Going Up of David Lev
Grandfather
Ghost Story
Grandpa
The Candidate
John J. McKay
One Is a Lonely Number
Joseph Provo
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Death Takes a Holiday
Judge Earl Chapman
I Never Sang for My Father
Tom Garrison
Hunters Are for Killing
Keller Floran
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Self (archive footage)
Companions in Nightmare
Dr. Lawrence Strelson
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Peter Schermann
The Crucible
Deputy Governor Danforth
Hotel
Warren Trent
CBS Playhouse
Peter Schermann
Inherit the Wind
Henry Drummond
Once Upon a Tractor
Martin
Rapture
Frederick Larbaud
The Americanization of Emily
Admiral William Jessup
The Big Parade of Comedy
Leon (archive footage)
Advance to the Rear
Col. Claude Brackenbury
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Pat Konke
The Fugitive
Dr. Mark Ryder
Hud
Homer Bannon
Billy Budd
The Dansker, Sailmaker
Ben Casey
Burton Strang
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Judgment at Nuremberg
Gen. Parker
Old Man
Self - Host