Melvyn Douglas
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
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
as (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The Hot Touch
1982
as Max Reich
Ghost Story
1981
as John Jaffrey
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
as David
The Changeling
1980
as Senator Carmichael
Being There
1979
as Benjamin Rand
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
as Senator Birney
The Making of a President
1978
Intimate Strangers
1977
as Donald's Father
- No poster
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1977
as Grandpa Doc
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Zachariah Guthrie
- No poster
A Gift To Last
1976
as Old Clement Sturgess
The Tenant
1976
as Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Murder or Mercy
1974
as Dr. Paul Harelson
The Death Squad
1974
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
- No poster
The Going Up of David Lev
1973
as Grandfather
The Candidate
1972
as John J. McKay
One Is a Lonely Number
1972
as Joseph Provo
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
Death Takes a Holiday
1971
as Judge Earl Chapman
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
as Tom Garrison