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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Tenant

as Monsieur Zy

Being There

as Benjamin Rand

The Changeling

as Senator Carmichael

Ninotchka

as Count Leon d'Algout

Hud

as Homer Bannon

The Old Dark House

as Penderel

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

as Bill Cole

Captains Courageous

as Frank Burton Cheyne

The Candidate

as John J. McKay

Ghost Story

as Dr. John Jaffrey