Melvyn Douglas
Acting
Born 1901-04-05 · Macon, Georgia, USA · Died 1981-08-04
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.
Acting
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
The Hot Touch
Max Reich
Ghost Story
Dr. John Jaffrey
Tell Me a Riddle
David
The Changeling
Senator Carmichael
Being There
Benjamin Rand
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Senator Birney
The Making of a President
Intimate Strangers
Donald's Father
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Grandpa Doc
Weekend Special
Grandpa Doc
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Zachariah Guthrie
A Gift To Last
Old Clement Sturgess
The Tenant
Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Stateman Benjamin Franklin
Murder or Mercy
Dr. Paul Harelson
The Death Squad
Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Going Up of David Lev
Grandfather
Ghost Story
Grandpa
The Candidate
John J. McKay
One Is a Lonely Number
Joseph Provo
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Death Takes a Holiday
Judge Earl Chapman
I Never Sang for My Father
Tom Garrison
Hunters Are for Killing
Keller Floran
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Self (archive footage)
Companions in Nightmare
Dr. Lawrence Strelson