Melvyn Douglas

Known for ActingBorn 1901-04-05Died 1981-08-04Macon, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Murder or Mercy

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

The Going Up of David Lev

MGM Parade

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

This Thing Called Love

Inherit the Wind

Hollywood Off Beat

He Stayed for Breakfast

Being There

The Tenant

Nagana

Weekend Special

Playhouse 90

Ghost Story

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

The Fugitive

Billy Budd

Ninotchka

Hud

Kraft Mystery Theatre

She Married Her Boss

The Wiser Sex

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Changeling

Captains Courageous

That's Entertainment, Part II

Your Show of Shows

Rapture

The Death Squad

CBS Playhouse

Tell Me a Riddle

What's My Line?

Good Girls Go to Paris

The Dick Cavett Show

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Third Finger, Left Hand

I Never Sang for My Father

General Electric Theater

The People's Enemy

The Americanization of Emily

The Ed Sullivan Show

Prestige

The Great Sinner