Melvyn Douglas
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.
Acting
Movie
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
1976
Movie
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
1979
Movie
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
1980
Movie
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
1939
Movie
Hud
as Homer Bannon
1963
Movie
The Old Dark House
as Penderel
1932
Movie
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
1948
Movie
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
1937
Movie
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
1972
Movie
Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey
1981
Movie
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
1964
Movie
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
1937
Movie
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
1977
Movie
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
1962
Movie
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
1933
Movie
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
1941
TV
The Fugitive
as Dr. Mark Ryder
1963
Movie
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
1941
Movie
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
1936
Movie
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
1949
Movie
I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison
1970
Movie
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
Movie
Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
1965
Movie
Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
1935