Melvyn Douglas

from Macon, Georgia, USA

Artwork for Being ThereImage of 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.

Timeline

2014Aged 113

  • Poster for Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo

    Self (archive footage)

1990Aged 89

  • Poster for Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

    (archive footage)

1988Aged 87

  • Poster for The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    Self (archive footage)

1982Aged 81

  • Poster for The Hot Touch

    Max Reich

1981Aged 80

  • Poster for Ghost Story

    John Jaffrey

1980Aged 79

  • Poster for The Changeling

    Senator Carmichael

  • Poster for Tell Me a Riddle

    David

1979Aged 78

  • Poster for The Seduction of Joe Tynan

    Senator Birney

  • Poster for Being There

    Benjamin Rand

1978Aged 77

  • Poster for The Making of a President

    (Unknown)

1977Aged 76

1976Aged 75

1974Aged 73

  • Poster for The Death Squad

    Police Captain Earl Kreski

  • Poster for Murder or Mercy

    Dr. Paul Harelson

1973Aged 72

1972Aged 71

  • Poster for Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for One Is a Lonely Number

    Joseph Provo

  • Poster for The Candidate

    John J. McKay

1971Aged 70

  • Poster for Death Takes a Holiday

    Judge Earl Chapman

1970Aged 69

  • Poster for Hunters Are for Killing

    Keller Floran

  • Poster for I Never Sang for My Father

    Tom Garrison

1969Aged 68

  • Poster for Garbo, by Joan Crawford

    Self (archive footage)

1968Aged 67

  • Poster for Companions in Nightmare

    Dr. Lawrence Strelson

1967Aged 66

  • Poster for Hotel

    Warren Trent

  • Poster for The Crucible

    Deputy Governor Danforth

  • Poster for Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

    Peter Schermann

1965Aged 64

  • Poster for Rapture

    Frederick Larbaud

  • Poster for Once Upon a Tractor

    Martin

  • Poster for Inherit the Wind

    Henry Drummond

1964Aged 63

  • Poster for Advance to the Rear

    Col. Claude Brackenbury

  • Poster for The Big Parade of Comedy

    Leon (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Americanization of Emily

    Admiral William Jessup

1963Aged 62

  • Poster for Hud

    Homer Bannon

1962Aged 61

  • Poster for Billy Budd

    The Dansker, Sailmaker

1959Aged 58

  • Poster for Judgment at Nuremberg

    Gen. Parker

1958Aged 57

  • Poster for The Plot to Kill Stalin

    Stalin

  • Poster for Old Man

    Self - Host

1957Aged 56

  • Poster for The Greer Case

    Howard Hoagland

1951Aged 50

  • Poster for My Forbidden Past

    Paul Beaurevel

  • Poster for On the Loose

    Frank Bradley

1949Aged 48

  • Poster for A Woman's Secret

    Luke Jordan

  • Poster for The Great Sinner

    Armand De Glasse

1948Aged 47

  • Poster for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

    Bill Cole

  • Poster for My Own True Love

    Clive Heath

1947Aged 46

  • Poster for The Guilt of Janet Ames

    Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb

  • Poster for The Sea of Grass

    Brice Chamberlain

1943Aged 42

  • Poster for Three Hearts for Julia

    Jeff Seabrook

1942Aged 41

  • Poster for We Were Dancing

    Nicholas Prax

  • Poster for They All Kissed the Bride

    Michael 'Mike' Holmes

1941Aged 40

  • Poster for That Uncertain Feeling

    Larry Baker

  • Poster for A Woman's Face

    Dr. Gustaf Segert

  • Poster for Our Wife

    Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin

  • Poster for Two-Faced Woman

    Lawrence 'Larry' Blake

1940Aged 39

  • Poster for Too Many Husbands

    Henry Lowndes

  • Poster for Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Self

  • Poster for He Stayed for Breakfast

    Paul Boliet

  • Poster for Third Finger, Left Hand

    Jeff Thompson

  • Poster for This Thing Called Love

    Tice Collins

1939Aged 38

1938Aged 37

  • Poster for Arsène Lupin Returns

    Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin

  • Poster for There's Always a Woman

    William H. Reardon

  • Poster for The Toy Wife

    George Sartoris

  • Poster for Fast Company

    Joel Sloane

  • Poster for That Certain Age

    Vincent Bullitt

  • Poster for The Shining Hour

    Henry Linden

  • Poster for There's That Woman Again

    William 'Bill' Reardon

1937Aged 36

  • Poster for Women of Glamour

    Richard Stark

  • Poster for I Met Him in Paris

    George Potter

  • Poster for Captains Courageous

    Frank Burton Cheyne

  • Poster for Angel

    Anthony 'Tony' Halton

  • Poster for I'll Take Romance

    James Guthrie

1936Aged 35

  • Poster for And So They Were Married

    Stephen Blake

  • Poster for The Gorgeous Hussy

    John Randolph

  • Poster for Theodora Goes Wild

    Michael Grant

1935Aged 34

  • Poster for The People's Enemy

    George R. 'Traps' Stuart

  • Poster for She Married Her Boss

    Richard Barclay

  • Poster for Mary Burns, Fugitive

    Barton Powell

  • Poster for Annie Oakley

    Jeff Hogarth

  • Poster for The Lone Wolf Returns

    Michael Lanyard

1934Aged 33

  • Poster for Woman in the Dark

    Tony Robson

  • Poster for Dangerous Corner

    Charles Stanton

1933Aged 32

  • Poster for The Vampire Bat

    Karl Brettschneider

  • Poster for Nagana

    Dr. Walter Tradnor

  • Poster for Counsellor at Law

    Roy Darwin

1932Aged 31

  • Poster for Prestige

    Capt. Andre Verlaine

  • Poster for The Wiser Sex

    David Rolfe

  • Poster for The Broken Wing

    Philip 'Phil' Marvin

  • Poster for As You Desire Me

    Count Bruno Varelli

  • Poster for The Old Dark House

    Penderel

1931Aged 30

  • Poster for Tonight or Never

    Jim Fletcher

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