Melvyn Douglas

Acting · Born 1901-04-05 in Macon, Georgia, USA

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

• Ninotchka as Count Leon d'Algout
• Being There as Benjamin Rand
• Billy Budd as The Dansker, Sailmaker
• The Candidate as John J. McKay
• The Tenant as Monsieur Zy
• The Old Dark House as Penderel
• Ghost Story as Dr. John Jaffrey
• Hud as Homer Bannon
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Bill Cole
• A Woman's Face as Dr. Gustaf Segert