Melvyn Douglas
Born in Macon, Georgia, USA — Apr 05 1901• Died Aug 04 1981
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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 s…
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Melvyn Douglas's Credits
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The Fugitive
Dr. Mark Ryder
Studio One
Cyril Ritchard
The Philco Television Playhouse
Richard Gordon
Ben Casey
Burton Strang
What's My Line?
Self
Lights Out
MGM Parade
Self
Ghost Story
Grandpa
Playhouse 90
Gen. Parker
Lux Video Theatre
James Strickland
Your Show of Shows
Self - Guest Host
Weekend Special
Grandpa Doc
CBS Playhouse
Peter Schermann
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Henry Drummond
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Hud
Homer Bannon
Ghost Story
Dr. John Jaffrey
General Electric Theater
Professor Arthur Barris
Being There
Benjamin Rand
Ninotchka
Count Leon d'Algout
The Tenant
Monsieur Zy
The Old Dark House
Penderel
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
The Changeling
Senator Carmichael
The Candidate
John J. McKay
A Woman's Face
Dr. Gustaf Segert
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Zachariah Guthrie
The Big Parade of Comedy
Leon (archive footage)
Captains Courageous
Frank Burton Cheyne
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Americanization of Emily
Admiral William Jessup
The Sea of Grass
Brice Chamberlain
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Stateman Benjamin Franklin
Hotel
Warren Trent
The Shining Hour
Henry Linden
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Bill Cole
Billy Budd
The Dansker, Sailmaker
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams
Good Girls Go to Paris
Ronald Brooke
Angel
Anthony 'Tony' Halton
A Woman's Secret
Luke Jordan
The Crucible
Deputy Governor Danforth
The Vampire Bat
Karl Brettschneider
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
The Great Sinner
Armand De Glasse
There's That Woman Again
William 'Bill' Reardon
The Gorgeous Hussy
John Randolph
Inherit the Wind
Henry Drummond
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Senator Birney
Intimate Strangers
Donald's Father
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
Too Many Husbands
Henry Lowndes
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
Counsellor at Law
Roy Darwin
The Death Squad
Police Captain Earl Kreski
She Married Her Boss
Richard Barclay
Old Man
Self - Host
Tell No Tales
Michael Cassidy
Our Wife
Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Melvyn Douglas
I'll Take Romance
James Guthrie
They All Kissed the Bride
Michael 'Mike' Holmes
Advance to the Rear
Col. Claude Brackenbury
This Thing Called Love
Tice Collins
One Is a Lonely Number
Joseph Provo
Theodora Goes Wild
Michael Grant
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Peter Schermann
Hunters Are for Killing
Keller Floran
Companions in Nightmare
Dr. Lawrence Strelson
Nagana
Dr. Walter Tradnor
Judgment at Nuremberg
Gen. Parker
I Met Him in Paris
George Potter
That Certain Age
Vincent Bullitt
There's Always a Woman
William H. Reardon
We Were Dancing
Nicholas Prax
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Stalin
The Greer Case
Howard Hoagland
Annie Oakley
Jeff Hogarth
That Uncertain Feeling
Larry Baker
The Broken Wing
Philip 'Phil' Marvin
On the Loose
Frank Bradley
Fast Company
Joel Sloane
Two-Faced Woman
Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
Arsène Lupin Returns
Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
Death Takes a Holiday
Judge Earl Chapman
Third Finger, Left Hand
Jeff Thompson
Murder or Mercy
Dr. Paul Harelson
The Toy Wife
George Sartoris
Woman in the Dark
Tony Robson
And So They Were Married
Stephen Blake
Rapture
Frederick Larbaud
The Wiser Sex
David Rolfe
My Forbidden Past
Paul Beaurevel
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Self (archive footage)
The Hot Touch
Max Reich
Once Upon a Tractor
Martin
I Never Sang for My Father
Tom Garrison
Tonight or Never
Jim Fletcher
Prestige
Capt. Andre Verlaine
He Stayed for Breakfast
Paul Boliet
Three Hearts for Julia
Jeff Seabrook
My Own True Love
Clive Heath
As You Desire Me
Count Bruno Varelli
Tell Me a Riddle
David
The Making of a President
The Going Up of David Lev
Grandfather
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Grandpa Doc
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Barton Powell
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Self
The People's Enemy
George R. 'Traps' Stuart
The Lone Wolf Returns
Michael Lanyard
Women of Glamour
Richard Stark
Dangerous Corner
Charles Stanton
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Off Beat
Steve Randall
A Gift To Last
Old Clement Sturgess