Melvyn Douglas
Known for: Acting
Born: April 5, 1901
Died: August 4, 1981
Place of birth: Macon, Georgia, USA
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.
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Filmography
100 movies · 22 TV shows, newest first
3.0
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014
8.5
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
8.2
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
4.6
The Hot Touch
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
6.0
Ghost Story
1981
6.8
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
7.0
The Changeling
1980
7.6
Being There
1979
5.9
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
NR
The Making of a President
1978
5.0
Intimate Strangers
19773.7
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
19777.5
Weekend Special
1977
6.5
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977NR
A Gift To Last
1976
7.6
The Tenant
1976
7.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
9.0
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
10.0
Murder or Mercy
1974
6.9
The Death Squad
19749.0
The Going Up of David Lev
1973
7.4
Ghost Story
1972
6.5
The Candidate
1972
5.1
One Is a Lonely Number
1972
7.2
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
4.9
Death Takes a Holiday
1971
6.7
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
6.0
Hunters Are for Killing
1970
6.0
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1969
5.3
Companions in Nightmare
1968
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
10.0
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967
4.5
The Crucible
1967
6.0
Hotel
19677.0
CBS Playhouse
1966
8.0
Inherit the Wind
1965
6.0
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
7.1
Rapture
1965
6.7
The Americanization of Emily
1964
7.2
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
5.2
Advance to the Rear
19645.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
7.3
Hud
1963
7.3
Billy Budd
1962
5.9
Ben Casey
1961
7.2
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
6.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
NR
Old Man
1958NR
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958NR
The Greer Case
1957
7.5
Playhouse 90
1956
7.5
MGM Parade
1955
6.8
General Electric Theater
19538.0
Hollywood Off Beat
1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
6.6
On the Loose
1951
5.5
My Forbidden Past
19516.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
7.3
Your Show of Shows
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.0
Lights Out
1949
6.8
The Great Sinner
1949
5.6
A Woman's Secret
1949
5.4
Studio One
1948
6.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
My Own True Love
1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
7.0
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
6.1
The Sea of Grass
1947
5.8
The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947
6.5
Three Hearts for Julia
1943
5.9
They All Kissed the Bride
1942
4.3
We Were Dancing
1942
6.4
Two-Faced Woman
1941
6.8
Our Wife
1941
6.8
A Woman's Face
1941
6.6
That Uncertain Feeling
1941
8.4
This Thing Called Love
1940
7.0
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
8.0
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
6.3
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
6.5
Too Many Husbands
1940
6.0
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
7.5
Ninotchka
19396.0
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939
7.1
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
5.4
Tell No Tales
1939
5.0
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
4.0
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
6.2
There's That Woman Again
1938
6.7
The Shining Hour
1938
5.5
That Certain Age
1938
5.4
Fast Company
1938
5.0
The Toy Wife
1938
6.0
There's Always a Woman
1938
6.3
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
6.3
I'll Take Romance
1937
6.7
Angel
1937
7.4
Captains Courageous
1937
6.1
I Met Him in Paris
1937
5.7
Women of Glamour
1937
6.6
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
5.5
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
6.4
And So They Were Married
1936
6.1
The Lone Wolf Returns
1935
6.5
Annie Oakley
1935
9.0
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
7.5
She Married Her Boss
1935
7.0
The People's Enemy
1935
6.8
Dangerous Corner
1934
6.1
Woman in the Dark
1934
6.5
Counsellor at Law
1933
8.0
Nagana
1933
5.5
The Vampire Bat
1933
6.7
The Old Dark House
1932
6.4
As You Desire Me
1932
6.0
The Broken Wing
1932
7.5
The Wiser Sex
1932
7.0
Prestige
1932
6.2
Tonight or Never
1931