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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 11, 1907
Died
September 11, 1959
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Paul Douglas Fleischer
Paul Douglas
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Paul Douglas (April 11, 1907 – September 11, 1959) was an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Paul Douglas Fleischer, Douglas began his career as a stage actor. He made his Broadway debut in 1936 as the Radio Announcer in Doty Hobart and Tom McKnight's Double Dummy at the John Golden Theatre. In 1946 he won both a Theatre World Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Herry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. Douglas began appearing in films in 1949. He may be best-remembered for two baseball comedy movies, Angels in the Outfield (1951) and It Happens Every Spring (1949). He also played Richard Widmark's police partner in the thriller Panic in the Streets, frustrated newlywed Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives, Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift, businessman Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite and a con man turned monk in When in Rome. In 1950, Douglas was host of the 22nd annual Academy Awards. Douglas also worked on radio as the announcer for The Ed Wynn Show and he was the first host of NBC Radio's "Horn & Hardart Children's Hour!". In April 1959 Douglas appeared as Lucy Ricardo's television morning show boss in the "Lucy Wants a Career" episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Douglas was originally cast in the 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Mighty Casey", a role written for him by Rod Serling, based on his character in Angels in the Outfield, but Douglas died the same week after production of the episode had been completed. His role was taken over by Jack Warden, and most of the episode was refilmed several months later. He was married five times, last to actress Jan Sterling from 1950 until his death. They had a son, Adams Douglas (1955–2003). Paul Douglas died on September 11, 1959 of a heart attack in Hollywood, California at the age of 52. Film director Billy Wilder and co-writer I.A.L. ('Izzy') Diamond had just offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the movie The Apartment that went to Fred MacMurray instead. Wilder later said: "I saw him and his wife, Jan Sterling, at a restaurant, and I realized he was perfect, and I asked him right there in the parking lot. About two days before we were to start, he had a heart attack and died. Iz and I were shattered." Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.0
Panelist
7 Days
2009
7.3
Blue Water High
2005
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
6.2
Pop Larkin
The Mating Game
1959
🎬
0.0
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1958
5.8
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
6.1
Professore Golfiero Paganica
Fortunella
1958
8.6
Paul Douglas
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
5.9
Vince Polito
Suspicion
1957
4.5
Chris Nolan
Beau James
1957
Credits
7 Days
as Panelist
2009
7.0
Blue Water High
2005
7.3
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997
7.5
The Mating Game
as Pop Larkin
1959
6.2
🎬
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1958
0.0
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Fortunella
as Professore Golfiero Paganica
1958
6.1
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
as Paul Douglas
1957
8.6
Suspicion
as Vince Polito
1957
5.9
Beau James
as Chris Nolan
1957
4.5
This Could Be the Night
as Rocco
1957
5.6
The Gamma People
as Mike Wilson
1956
5.1
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Jonas Sutton
1956
6.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Solid Gold Cadillac
as Edward L. McKeever
1956
6.2
🎬
Adventure Theater
as Host
1956
0.0
The Leather Saint
as Gus MacAuliffe
1956
0.0
Joe Macbeth
as Joe MacBeth
1955
7.4
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Bill Fleming
1955
7.8
Green Fire
as Vic Leonard
1954
6.2
Climax!
as Dr. Merle Gardner
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Lieutenant Todd Thoman
1954
3.3
🎬
Calling Scotland Yard: The Man Who Stayed Alive
as Host
1954
0.0
🎬
The Man Who Stayed Alive
as Self - Host
1954
0.0
Executive Suite
as Josiah Walter Dudley
1954
7.0
The 'Maggie'
as Calvin B. Marshall, the American
1954
6.3
Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
as Commentator
1954
0.0
Forever Female
as Harry Phillips
1953
6.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Never Wave at a WAC
as Andrew McBain
1953
4.6
We're Not Married!
as Hector Woodruff
1952
5.8
Clash by Night
as Jerry D'Amato
1952
6.6
When in Rome
as Joe Brewster
1952
0.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Harry Brock
1951
8.6
Angels in the Outfield
as Guffy McGovern
1951
6.7
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Frank Parisi
1951
7.2
Rhubarb
as Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
1951
5.3
The Guy Who Came Back
as Harry Joplin
1951
3.0
Fourteen Hours
as Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan
1951
7.2
🎬
The Screen Director
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1951
6.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Rick Blaine
1950
6.3
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Panic in the Streets
as Capt. Tom Warren
1950
6.9
Love That Brute
as E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley
1950
5.3
The Big Lift
as MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski
1950
6.8
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
You Can Change The World
as Self
1950
5.8
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
Everybody Does It
as Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
1949
8.1
It Happens Every Spring
as Monk Lanigan
1949
6.5
A Letter to Three Wives
as Porter Hollingsway
1949
7.2
Studio One
as Paul Kadsoe
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Captain McCaffrey
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
🎬
Magic of Youth
as Narrator
1946
0.0
🎬
Hour Glass
1946
4.0
Margin for Error
as Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)
1943
5.7
🎬
Filming the Fleet
as Self, Narrator
1939
0.0
🎬
Conquering the Colorado
as Narrator
1939
0.0
🎬
Saturday Night Swing Club
as Master of Ceremonies
1938
0.0