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

The Fugitive

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse

What's My Line?

Ben Casey

The Dick Cavett Show

Studio One

The Ed Sullivan Show

All Movies (100)

• Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To1990 · as (archive footage)
• The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind1988 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Hot Touch1982 · as Max Reich
• Ghost Story1981 · as Dr. John Jaffrey
• Tell Me a Riddle1980 · as David
• The Changeling1980 · as Senator Carmichael
• Being There1979 · as Benjamin Rand
• The Seduction of Joe Tynan1979 · as Senator Birney
• The Making of a President1978
• Intimate Strangers1977 · as Donald's Father
• Portrait of Grandpa Doc1977 · as Grandpa Doc
• Twilight's Last Gleaming1977 · as Zachariah Guthrie
• A Gift To Last1976 · as Old Clement Sturgess
• The Tenant1976 · as Monsieur Zy
• That's Entertainment, Part II1976 · as (archive footage)
• Murder or Mercy1974 · as Dr. Paul Harelson
• The Death Squad1974 · as Police Captain Earl Kreski
• The Going Up of David Lev1973 · as Grandfather
• The Candidate1972 · as John J. McKay
• One Is a Lonely Number1972 · as Joseph Provo
• Hollywood: The Dream Factory1972 · as Self (archive footage)
• Death Takes a Holiday1971 · as Judge Earl Chapman
• I Never Sang for My Father1970 · as Tom Garrison
• Hunters Are for Killing1970 · as Keller Floran
• Garbo, by Joan Crawford1969 · as Self (archive footage)
• Companions in Nightmare1968 · as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night1967 · as Peter Schermann
• The Crucible1967 · as Deputy Governor Danforth
• Hotel1967 · as Warren Trent
• Inherit the Wind1965 · as Henry Drummond
• Once Upon a Tractor1965 · as Martin
• Rapture1965 · as Frederick Larbaud
• The Americanization of Emily1964 · as Admiral William Jessup
• The Big Parade of Comedy1964 · as Leon (archive footage)
• Advance to the Rear1964 · as Col. Claude Brackenbury
• Hud1963 · as Homer Bannon
• Billy Budd1962 · as The Dansker, Sailmaker
• Judgment at Nuremberg1959 · as Gen. Parker
• Old Man1958 · as Self - Host
• The Plot to Kill Stalin1958 · as Stalin
• The Greer Case1957 · as Howard Hoagland
• On the Loose1951 · as Frank Bradley
• My Forbidden Past1951 · as Paul Beaurevel
• The Great Sinner1949 · as Armand De Glasse
• A Woman's Secret1949 · as Luke Jordan
• My Own True Love1948 · as Clive Heath
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House1948 · as Bill Cole
• The Sea of Grass1947 · as Brice Chamberlain
• The Guilt of Janet Ames1947 · as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
• Three Hearts for Julia1943 · as Jeff Seabrook
• They All Kissed the Bride1942 · as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
• We Were Dancing1942 · as Nicholas Prax
• Two-Faced Woman1941 · as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
• Our Wife1941 · as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
• A Woman's Face1941 · as Dr. Gustaf Segert
• That Uncertain Feeling1941 · as Larry Baker
• This Thing Called Love1940 · as Tice Collins
• Third Finger, Left Hand1940 · as Jeff Thompson
• He Stayed for Breakfast1940 · as Paul Boliet
• Cavalcade of the Academy Awards1940 · as Self
• Too Many Husbands1940 · as Henry Lowndes
• The Amazing Mr. Williams1939 · as Kenny Williams
• Ninotchka1939 · as Count Leon d'Algout
• Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 11939 · as Self
• Good Girls Go to Paris1939 · as Ronald Brooke
• Tell No Tales1939 · as Michael Cassidy
• From the Ends of the Earth1939 · as Self
• Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 81939 · as Melvyn Douglas
• There's That Woman Again1938 · as William 'Bill' Reardon
• The Shining Hour1938 · as Henry Linden
• That Certain Age1938 · as Vincent Bullitt
• Fast Company1938 · as Joel Sloane
• The Toy Wife1938 · as George Sartoris
• There's Always a Woman1938 · as William H. Reardon
• Arsène Lupin Returns1938 · as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
• I'll Take Romance1937 · as James Guthrie
• Angel1937 · as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
• Captains Courageous1937 · as Frank Burton Cheyne
• I Met Him in Paris1937 · as George Potter
• Women of Glamour1937 · as Richard Stark
• Theodora Goes Wild1936 · as Michael Grant
• The Gorgeous Hussy1936 · as John Randolph
• And So They Were Married1936 · as Stephen Blake
• The Lone Wolf Returns1935 · as Michael Lanyard
• Annie Oakley1935 · as Jeff Hogarth
• Mary Burns, Fugitive1935 · as Barton Powell
• She Married Her Boss1935 · as Richard Barclay
• The People's Enemy1935 · as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
• Dangerous Corner1934 · as Charles Stanton
• Woman in the Dark1934 · as Tony Robson
• Counsellor at Law1933 · as Roy Darwin
• Nagana1933 · as Dr. Walter Tradnor
• The Vampire Bat1933 · as Karl Brettschneider
• The Old Dark House1932 · as Penderel
• As You Desire Me1932 · as Count Bruno Varelli
• The Broken Wing1932 · as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
• The Wiser Sex1932 · as David Rolfe
• Prestige1932 · as Capt. Andre Verlaine
• Tonight or Never1931 · as Jim Fletcher

All TV Shows (25)

• Weekend Special1977 · as Grandpa Doc
• The Lives of Benjamin Franklin1974 · as Stateman Benjamin Franklin
• Ghost Story1972 · as Grandpa
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• CBS Playhouse1966 · as Peter Schermann
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963 · as Pat Konke
• The Fugitive1963 · as Dr. Mark Ryder
• Ben Casey1961 · as Burton Strang
• Kraft Mystery Theatre1961
• Playhouse 901956 · as Gen. Parker
• MGM Parade1955 · as Self
• MGM Parade1955 · as self
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Professor Arthur Barris
• Hollywood Off Beat1952 · as Steve Randall
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Henry Drummond
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Galileo Galilei
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as James Strickland
• Your Show of Shows1950 · as Self - Guest Host
• Your Show of Shows1950 · as Self - Guest Performer
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• Lights Out1949
• Studio One1948 · as Cyril Ritchard
• The Philco Television Playhouse1948 · as Richard Gordon
• The Philco Television Playhouse1948 · as The Stranger
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self