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
Top 40 Movies
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
That Uncertain Feeling
1941
Being There
1979
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
The Tenant
1976
Woman in the Dark
1934
The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947
The Crucible
1967
Billy Budd
1962
Tonight or Never
1931
There's That Woman Again
1938
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1969
The Candidate
1972
Intimate Strangers
1977
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
The Old Dark House
1932
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Tell No Tales
1939
Three Hearts for Julia
1943
Dangerous Corner
1934
Ghost Story
1981
Captains Courageous
1937
Ninotchka
1939
The Wiser Sex
1932
Hud
1963
The Changeling
1980
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
Our Wife
1941
The Sea of Grass
1947
Hunters Are for Killing
1970
Fast Company
1938
Death Takes a Holiday
1971
A Woman's Face
1941
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
The Americanization of Emily
1964
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
The Great Sinner
1949