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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 Old Dark House
as Penderel
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
The Sea of Grass
as Brice Chamberlain
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
Hud
as Homer Bannon
Hotel
as Warren Trent
