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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 5, 1901
Died
August 4, 1981
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
- Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
Melvyn Douglas
1.0 Popularity
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
3.0
Self (archive footage)
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014
9.0
(archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
8.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
3.8
Max Reich
The Hot Touch
1982
6.0
Dr. John Jaffrey
Ghost Story
1981
6.0
David
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
7.0
Senator Carmichael
The Changeling
1980
7.6
Benjamin Rand
Being There
1979
5.7
Senator Birney
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
0.0
The Making of a President
1978
Credits
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
as Self (archive footage)
2014
3.0
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1990
9.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
The Hot Touch
as Max Reich
1982
3.8
Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey
1981
6.0
Tell Me a Riddle
as David
1980
6.0
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
1980
7.0
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
1979
7.6
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
1979
5.7
The Making of a President
1978
0.0
Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
1977
5.0
🎬
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
as Grandpa Doc
1977
2.0
🎬
Weekend Special
as Grandpa Doc
1977
7.6
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
1977
6.4
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
1976
7.6
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Stateman Benjamin Franklin
1974
0.0
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul Harelson
1974
0.0
The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
1974
6.6
🎬
The Going Up of David Lev
as Grandfather
1973
0.0
Ghost Story
as Grandpa
1972
7.1
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
1972
6.5
One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
1972
4.6
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl Chapman
1971
4.5
I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
1970
6.5
Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller Floran
1970
4.5
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
as Self (archive footage)
1969
4.0
Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
1968
4.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter Schermann
1967
0.0
The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
1967
2.7
Hotel
as Warren Trent
1967
5.9
🎬
CBS Playhouse
as Peter Schermann
1966
7.0
Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
1965
8.0
Once Upon a Tractor
as Martin
1965
5.0
Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
1965
7.0
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
1964
6.6
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)
1964
6.3
Advance to the Rear
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
1964
5.0
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Pat Konke
1963
5.7
The Fugitive
as Dr. Mark Ryder
1963
7.2
Hud
as Homer Bannon
1963
7.3
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
1962
7.3
Ben Casey
as Burton Strang
1961
5.6
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
6.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Gen. Parker
1959
0.0
Old Man
as Self - Host
1958
0.0
The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Stalin
1958
0.0
The Greer Case
as Howard Hoagland
1957
0.0
Playhouse 90
as Gen. Parker
1956
7.6
General Electric Theater
as Professor Arthur Barris
1953
6.4
🎬
Hollywood Off Beat
as Steve Randall
1952
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Henry Drummond
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Galileo Galilei
1951
8.6
On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
1951
6.0
My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
1951
5.5
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as James Strickland
1950
6.3
Your Show of Shows
as Self - Guest Host
1950
6.3
Your Show of Shows
as Self - Guest Performer
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
Lights Out
1949
5.8
The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
1949
6.6
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
1949
5.6
Studio One
as Cyril Ritchard
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Richard Gordon
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as The Stranger
1948
6.3
My Own True Love
as Clive Heath
1948
5.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
1948
7.0
The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
1947
6.1
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
1947
5.7
Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff Seabrook
1943
6.0
They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
1942
5.8
We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
1942
3.6
Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
1941
6.4
Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
1941
5.7
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
1941
6.8
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
1941
6.6
This Thing Called Love
as Tice Collins
1940
8.0
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Jeff Thompson
1940
6.8
He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul Boliet
1940
0.0
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
6.5
Too Many Husbands
as Henry Lowndes
1940
6.3
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
1939
7.5
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny Williams
1939
5.8
🎬
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
as Self
1939
6.0
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald Brooke
1939
7.0
Tell No Tales
as Michael Cassidy
1939
4.6
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1939
0.0
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
1939
4.0
There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
1938
5.8
The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
1938
6.6
That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
1938
5.1
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
1938
5.0
The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
1938
4.3
There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
1938
5.8
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
1938
5.8
I'll Take Romance
as James Guthrie
1937
5.0
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
1937
6.7
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
1937
7.5
I Met Him in Paris
as George Potter
1937
5.3
Women of Glamour
as Richard Stark
1937
5.0
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
1936
6.5
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
1936
5.3
And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
1936
5.8
The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael Lanyard
1935
5.9
Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
1935
6.3
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton Powell
1935
0.0
She Married Her Boss
as Richard Barclay
1935
7.0
The People's Enemy
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
1935
6.0
Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
1934
5.7
Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
1934
6.0
Counsellor at Law
as Roy Darwin
1933
6.4
Nagana
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
1933
0.0
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
1933
5.4
The Old Dark House
as Penderel
1932
6.7
As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno Varelli
1932
6.3
The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
1932
5.0
The Wiser Sex
as David Rolfe
1932
6.0
Prestige
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
1932
5.5
Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher
1931
5.9