Melvyn Douglas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 5, 1901, Macon, Georgia, USA
- Died
- August 4, 1981
- Movies
- 100
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2014 | Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo | Self (archive footage) |
| 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 | 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 | A Gift To Last | Old Clement Sturgess |
| 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 |
| 1969 | Garbo, by Joan Crawford | Self (archive footage) |
| 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 |
| 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 | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Kenny Williams |
| 1939 | Ninotchka | Count Leon d'Algout |
| 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 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 | Annie Oakley | Jeff Hogarth |
| 1935 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Barton Powell |
| 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 |
| 1932 | Prestige | Capt. Andre Verlaine |
| 1931 | Tonight or Never | Jim Fletcher |
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