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Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas

Birthday: 1901-04-05 | Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1981
Ghost Story

as    Dr. John Jaffrey

1980
The Changeling

as    Senator Carmichael

1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming

as    Zachariah Guthrie

1976
The Tenant

as    Monsieur Zy

1974
Murder or Mercy

as    Dr. Paul Harelson

1974
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

as    Stateman Benjamin Franklin

1973
The Going Up of David Lev

as    Grandfather

1972
The Candidate

as    John J. McKay

1972
One Is a Lonely Number

as    Joseph Provo

1971
Death Takes a Holiday

as    Judge Earl Chapman

1970
Hunters Are for Killing

as    Keller Floran

1970
I Never Sang for My Father

as    Tom Garrison

1967
Hotel

as    Warren Trent

1965
Rapture

as    Frederick Larbaud

1965
Inherit the Wind

as    Henry Drummond

1964
The Americanization of Emily

as    Admiral William Jessup

1963
Hud

as    Homer Bannon

1962
Billy Budd

as    The Dansker, Sailmaker

1951
My Forbidden Past

as    Paul Beaurevel

1949
A Woman's Secret

as    Luke Jordan

1948
My Own True Love

as    Clive Heath

1947
The Sea of Grass

as    Brice Chamberlain

1943
Three Hearts for Julia

as    Jeff Seabrook

1942
We Were Dancing

as    Nicholas Prax

1941
A Woman's Face

as    Dr. Gustaf Segert

1941
That Uncertain Feeling

as    Larry Baker

1941
Two-Faced Woman

as    Lawrence 'Larry' Blake

1939
Ninotchka

as    Count Leon d'Algout

1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams

as    Kenny Williams

1939
Tell No Tales

as    Michael Cassidy