Birthday
1901/04/05
Day of death
1981/08/04 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also know as
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
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...Read more
(1939) Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
(1979) Being There
as Benjamin Rand
(1962) Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
(1972) The Candidate
as John J. McKay
(1976) The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
(1932) The Old Dark House
as Penderel
(1981) Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey
(1963) Hud
as Homer Bannon
(1948) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
(1941) A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
(1980) The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
(1964) The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
(1933) The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
(1941) That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
(1942) They All Kissed the Bride
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
(1935) Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
(1938) That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
(1947) The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
(1937) Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
(1937) Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
(1979) The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
(1940) Third Finger, Left Hand
as Jeff Thompson
(1935) She Married Her Boss
as Richard Barclay
(1936) Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
(1933) Counsellor at Law
as Roy Darwin
(1965) Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
(1949) A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
(1970) I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
(1972) One Is a Lonely Number
as Joseph Provo
(1935) The People's Enemy
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
(1977) Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
(1948) My Own True Love
as Clive Heath
(1941) Our Wife
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
(1941) Two-Faced Woman
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
(1947) The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
(1931) Tonight or Never
as Jim Fletcher
(1939) Tell No Tales
as Michael Cassidy
(1951) My Forbidden Past
as Paul Beaurevel
(1940) Too Many Husbands
as Henry Lowndes
(1972) Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1935) Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Barton Powell
(1932) As You Desire Me
as Count Bruno Varelli
(1936) The Gorgeous Hussy
as John Randolph
(1939) Good Girls Go to Paris
as Ronald Brooke
(1938) The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
(1938) Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
(1937) I Met Him in Paris
as George Potter
(1940) He Stayed for Breakfast
as Paul Boliet
(1949) The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
(1964) Advance to the Rear
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
(1938) There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
(1939) The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kenny Williams
(1931) Prestige
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
(1937) I'll Take Romance
as James Guthrie
(1934) Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
(1938) The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
(1938) Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
(1936) And So They Were Married
as Stephen Blake
(1951) On the Loose
as Frank Bradley
(1980) Tell Me a Riddle
as David
(1934) Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
(1942) We Were Dancing
as Nicholas Prax
(1940) This Thing Called Love
as Tice Collins
(1971) Death Takes a Holiday
as Judge Earl Chapman
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1970) Hunters Are for Killing
as Keller Floran
(1978) The Making of a President
as ---
(1943) Three Hearts for Julia
as Jeff Seabrook
(1935) The Lone Wolf Returns
as Michael Lanyard
(1974) Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Paul Harelson
(1982) The Hot Touch
as Max Reich
(1977) Intimate Strangers
as Donald's Father
(1967) Hotel
as Warren Trent
(1938) There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
(1973) The Going Up of David Lev
as Grandfather
(1958) The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Stalin
(1958) Old Man
as Self - Host
(1957) The Greer Case
as Howard Hoagland
(1967) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Peter Schermann
(1977) Portrait of Grandpa Doc
as Grandpa Doc
(1937) Women of Glamour
as Richard 'Dick' Stark
(1968) Companions in Nightmare
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
(1965) Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
(1932) The Wiser Sex
as David Rolfe
(1965) Once Upon a Tractor
as Martin
(1932) The Broken Wing
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
(1974) The Death Squad
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
(1967) The Crucible
as Deputy Governor Danforth
(1940) Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1939) From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1990) Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1933) Nagana
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
(1964) The Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)
(1939) Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
as Self
(1939) Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Melvyn Douglas
(1959) Judgment at Nuremberg
as Gen. Parker
(1948) Studio One
as Cyril Ritchard
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Professor Arthur Barris
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Henry Drummond
(1977) Weekend Special
as Grandpa Doc
(1963) The Fugitive
as Dr. Mark Ryder
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as James Strickland
(1950) Your Show of Shows
as Self - Guest Host
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Pat Konke
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Richard Gordon
(1961) Ben Casey
as Burton Strang
(1966) CBS Playhouse
as Peter Schermann
(1949) Lights Out
as ---
(1972) Ghost Story
as Grandpa
(1961) Kraft Mystery Theatre
as ---
(1952) Hollywood Off Beat
as Steve Randall
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1956) Playhouse 90
as Gen. Parker
(1974) The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
as Stateman Benjamin Franklin
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Galileo Galilei
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as The Stranger
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self
(1950) Your Show of Shows
as Self - Guest Performer
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist