Personal Info
Known Credits
98
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1901-04-05 (124 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also Known For
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
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 yea ...
Known For
Acting
1990 --
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
| (archive footage)
1988 --
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
| Self (archive footage)
1982 --
The Hot Touch
| Max Reich
1981 --
Ghost Story
| Dr. John Jaffrey
1980 --
Tell Me a Riddle
| David
1980 --
The Changeling
| Senator Carmichael
1979 --
Being There
| Benjamin Rand
1979 --
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
| Senator Birney
1978 --
The Making of a President
|
1977 --
Intimate Strangers
| Donald's Father
1977 --
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
| Grandpa Doc
1977 --
Twilight's Last Gleaming
| Zachariah Guthrie
1976 --
The Tenant
| Monsieur Zy
1976 --
That's Entertainment, Part II
| (archive footage)
1974 --
Murder or Mercy
| Dr. Paul Harelson
1974 --
The Death Squad
| Police Captain Earl Kreski
1973 --
The Going Up of David Lev
| Grandfather
1972 --
The Candidate
| John J. McKay
1972 --
One Is a Lonely Number
| Joseph Provo
1972 --
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
| Self (archive footage)
1971 --
Death Takes a Holiday
| Judge Earl Chapman
1970 --
I Never Sang for My Father
| Tom Garrison
1970 --
Hunters Are for Killing
| Keller Floran
1968 --
Companions in Nightmare
| Dr. Lawrence Strelson
1967 --
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
| Peter Schermann
1967 --
The Crucible
| Deputy Governor Danforth
1967 --
Hotel
| Warren Trent
1965 --
Inherit the Wind
| Henry Drummond
1965 --
Once Upon a Tractor
| Martin
1965 --
Rapture
| Frederick Larbaud
1964 --
The Americanization of Emily
| Admiral William Jessup
1964 --
The Big Parade of Comedy
| Leon (archive footage)
1964 --
Advance to the Rear
| Col. Claude Brackenbury
1963 --
Hud
| Homer Bannon
1962 --
Billy Budd
| The Dansker, Sailmaker
1961 --
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
| Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1959 --
Judgment at Nuremberg
| Gen. Parker
1958 --
Old Man
| Self - Host
1958 --
The Plot to Kill Stalin
| Stalin
1957 --
The Greer Case
| Howard Hoagland
1951 --
On the Loose
| Frank Bradley
1951 --
My Forbidden Past
| Paul Beaurevel
1949 --
The Great Sinner
| Armand De Glasse
1949 --
A Woman's Secret
| Luke Jordan
1948 --
My Own True Love
| Clive Heath
1948 --
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
| Bill Cole
1947 --
The Sea of Grass
| Brice Chamberlain
1947 --
The Guilt of Janet Ames
| Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
1943 --
Three Hearts for Julia
| Jeff Seabrook
1942 --
They All Kissed the Bride
| Michael 'Mike' Holmes
1942 --
We Were Dancing
| Nicholas Prax
1941 --
Two-Faced Woman
| Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
1941 --
Our Wife
| Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
1941 --
A Woman's Face
| Dr. Gustaf Segert
1941 --
That Uncertain Feeling
| Larry Baker
1940 --
This Thing Called Love
| Tice Collins
1940 --
Third Finger, Left Hand
| Jeff Thompson
1940 --
He Stayed for Breakfast
| Paul Boliet
1940 --
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
| Self
1940 --
Too Many Husbands
| Henry Lowndes
1939 --
Ninotchka
| Count Leon d'Algout
1939 --
The Amazing Mr. Williams
| Kenny Williams
1939 --
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
| Self
1939 --
Good Girls Go to Paris
| Ronald Brooke
1939 --
Tell No Tales
| Michael Cassidy
1939 --
From the Ends of the Earth
| Self
1939 --
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
| Melvyn Douglas
1938 --
There's That Woman Again
| William 'Bill' Reardon
1938 --
The Shining Hour
| Henry Linden
1938 --
That Certain Age
| Vincent Bullitt
1938 --
Fast Company
| Joel Sloane
1938 --
The Toy Wife
| George Sartoris
1938 --
There's Always a Woman
| William H. Reardon
1938 --
Arsène Lupin Returns
| Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
1937 --
I'll Take Romance
| James Guthrie
1937 --
Angel
| Anthony 'Tony' Halton
1937 --
Captains Courageous
| Frank Burton Cheyne
1937 --
I Met Him in Paris
| George Potter
1937 --
Women of Glamour
| Richard 'Dick' Stark
1936 --
Theodora Goes Wild
| Michael Grant
1936 --
The Gorgeous Hussy
| John Randolph
1936 --
And So They Were Married
| Stephen Blake
1935 --
The Lone Wolf Returns
| Michael Lanyard
1935 --
Mary Burns, Fugitive
| Barton Powell
1935 --
Annie Oakley
| Jeff Hogarth
1935 --
She Married Her Boss
| Richard Barclay
1935 --
The People's Enemy
| George R. 'Traps' Stuart
1934 --
Dangerous Corner
| Charles Stanton
1934 --
Woman in the Dark
| Tony Robson
1933 --
Counsellor at Law
| Roy Darwin
1933 --
Nagana
| Dr. Walter Tradnor
1933 --
The Vampire Bat
| Karl Brettschneider
1932 --
The Old Dark House
| Penderel
1932 --
As You Desire Me
| Count Bruno Varelli
1932 --
The Broken Wing
| Philip 'Phil' Marvin
1932 --
The Wiser Sex
| David Rolfe
1931 --
Prestige
| Capt. Andre Verlaine
1931 --
Tonight or Never
| Jim Fletcher