Melvyn Douglas
1901-1981
Known for The Tenant, Being There, The Changeling.
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.
Movie Credits
Rapture (1965)
Ghost Story (1981)
Hud (1963)
A Woman's Secret (1949)
This Thing Called Love (1940)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Old Dark House (1932)
The Changeling (1980)
The Tenant (1976)
The Candidate (1972)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Billy Budd (1962)
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
The Hot Touch (1982)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
