Melvyn Douglas
Actor
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.
Filmography
Being There
as Benjamin Rand 1979
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael 1980
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout 1939
Hud
as Homer Bannon 1963
The Old Dark House
as Penderel 1932
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole 1948
The Candidate
as John J. McKay 1972
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne 1937
Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey 1981
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup 1964
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider 1933
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton 1937
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie 1977
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker 1962
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert 1941
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker 1941