Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
4/5/1901
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
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 appeare...
Known For
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
Rapture
as Frederick Larbaud
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
Annie Oakley
as Jeff Hogarth
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
Dangerous Corner
as Charles Stanton
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
Hotel
as Warren Trent
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
Woman in the Dark
as Tony Robson
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Birney
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
Old Man
as Self - Host
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
The Great Sinner
as Armand De Glasse
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Leon (archive footage)
Career Timeline
1977
1974
1972
1967
1965
1964
1963
1951
1950
1949
1948
1947
1941
1940
1939
1938
There's That Woman Again
as William 'Bill' Reardon
The Shining Hour
as Henry Linden
That Certain Age
as Vincent Bullitt
Fast Company
as Joel Sloane
The Toy Wife
as George Sartoris
There's Always a Woman
as William H. Reardon
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin