Melvyn Douglas
Acting
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.
Known for
2014Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Self (archive footage)
1990Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1982The Hot Touch
Max Reich
1981Ghost Story
Dr. John Jaffrey
1980The Changeling
Senator Carmichael
1980Tell Me a Riddle
David
1979Being There
Benjamin Rand
1979The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Senator Birney
1978The Making of a President
1977Twilight's Last Gleaming
Zachariah Guthrie
1977Intimate Strangers
Donald's Father
1976The Tenant
Monsieur Zy
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1974Murder or Mercy
Dr. Paul Harelson
1974The Death Squad
Police Captain Earl Kreski
1972The Candidate
John J. McKay
1972One Is a Lonely Number
Joseph Provo
1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
1971Death Takes a Holiday
Judge Earl Chapman
1970I Never Sang for My Father
Tom Garrison
1970Hunters Are for Killing
Keller Floran
1969Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Self (archive footage)
1968Companions in Nightmare
Dr. Lawrence Strelson