As Actor
The Hot Touch
1982
4.4
Melvyn Douglas
Acting
Birth Date
April 5, 1901
Place of Birth
Macon, Georgia, USA
Date of Death
August 4, 1981
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.
Complete Filmography
As Actor
Ghost Story
1981
6.1
As Actor
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
6.0
As Actor
The Changeling
1980
7.0
As Actor
Being There
1979
7.6
As Actor
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
5.9
As Actor
Intimate Strangers
1977
5.0
As Actor
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
6.4
As Actor
The Tenant
1976
7.6
As Actor
The Death Squad
1974
6.6
As Actor
The Candidate
1972
6.5
As Actor
One Is a Lonely Number
1972
5.2
As Actor
Death Takes a Holiday
1971
5.2
As Actor
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
6.6
As Actor
Companions in Nightmare
1968
4.0
As Actor
The Crucible
1967
3.5
As Actor
Hotel
1967
6.1
As Actor
Inherit the Wind
1965
8.0
As Actor
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
5.0
As Actor
Rapture
1965
7.0