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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.
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Hud and Being There
Known For
The Changeling
(1980)
Senator Carmichael
The Tenant
(1976)
Monsieur Zy
Being There
(1979)
Benjamin Rand
Ninotchka
(1939)
Count Leon d'Algout
Hud
(1963)
Homer Bannon
Ghost Story
(1981)
Dr. John Jaffrey
The Candidate
(1972)
John J. McKay
Captains Courageous
(1937)
Frank Burton Cheyne
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
(1948)
Bill Cole
That Uncertain Feeling
(1941)
Larry Baker
The Americanization of Emily
(1964)
Admiral William Jessup
The Old Dark House
(1932)
Penderel
The Crucible
(1967)
Deputy Governor Danforth
A Woman's Face
(1941)
Dr. Gustaf Segert
Billy Budd
(1962)
The Dansker, Sailmaker
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976)
(archive footage)
Full Filmography
Acting
Prestige
(1931)
Capt. Andre Verlaine
Tonight or Never
(1931)
Jim Fletcher
The Old Dark House
(1932)
Penderel
The Wiser Sex
(1932)
David Rolfe
The Broken Wing
(1932)
Philip 'Phil' Marvin
As You Desire Me
(1932)
Count Bruno Varelli
The Vampire Bat
(1933)
Karl Brettschneider
Counsellor at Law
(1933)
Roy Darwin
Nagana
(1933)
Dr. Walter Tradnor
Woman in the Dark
(1934)
Tony Robson
Dangerous Corner
(1934)
Charles Stanton
The Lone Wolf Returns
(1935)
Michael Lanyard
Mary Burns, Fugitive
(1935)
Barton Powell
She Married Her Boss
(1935)
Richard Barclay
The People's Enemy
(1935)
George R. 'Traps' Stuart
Annie Oakley
(1935)
Jeff Hogarth
And So They Were Married
(1936)
Stephen Blake
The Gorgeous Hussy
(1936)
John Randolph
Theodora Goes Wild
(1936)
Michael Grant
Women of Glamour
(1937)
Richard 'Dick' Stark
Captains Courageous
(1937)
Frank Burton Cheyne
Angel
(1937)
Anthony 'Tony' Halton
I'll Take Romance
(1937)
James Guthrie
I Met Him in Paris
(1937)
George Potter
That Certain Age
(1938)
Vincent Bullitt
There's Always a Woman
(1938)
William H. Reardon
The Shining Hour
(1938)
Henry Linden
There's That Woman Again
(1938)
William 'Bill' Reardon
Arsène Lupin Returns
(1938)
Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
Fast Company
(1938)
Joel Sloane
The Toy Wife
(1938)
George Sartoris
From the Ends of the Earth
(1939)
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
(1939)
Melvyn Douglas
Ninotchka
(1939)
Count Leon d'Algout
Good Girls Go to Paris
(1939)
Ronald Brooke
The Amazing Mr. Williams
(1939)
Kenny Williams
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
(1939)
Self
Tell No Tales
(1939)
Michael Cassidy
Too Many Husbands
(1940)
Henry Lowndes
This Thing Called Love
(1940)
Tice Collins
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
(1940)
Self
Third Finger, Left Hand
(1940)
Jeff Thompson
He Stayed for Breakfast
(1940)
Paul Boliet
Our Wife
(1941)
Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
Two-Faced Woman
(1941)
Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
A Woman's Face
(1941)
Dr. Gustaf Segert
That Uncertain Feeling
(1941)
Larry Baker
They All Kissed the Bride
(1942)
Michael 'Mike' Holmes
We Were Dancing
(1942)
Nicholas Prax
Three Hearts for Julia
(1943)
Jeff Seabrook
The Sea of Grass
(1947)
Brice Chamberlain
The Guilt of Janet Ames
(1947)
Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
My Own True Love
(1948)
Clive Heath
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
(1948)
Bill Cole
A Woman's Secret
(1949)
Luke Jordan
The Great Sinner
(1949)
Armand De Glasse
My Forbidden Past
(1951)
Paul Beaurevel
On the Loose
(1951)
Frank Bradley
The Greer Case
(1957)
Howard Hoagland
Old Man
(1958)
Self - Host
The Plot to Kill Stalin
(1958)
Stalin
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
(1961)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Billy Budd
(1962)
The Dansker, Sailmaker
Hud
(1963)
Homer Bannon
The Big Parade of Comedy
(1964)
Leon (archive footage)
Advance to the Rear
(1964)
Col. Claude Brackenbury
The Americanization of Emily
(1964)
Admiral William Jessup
Once Upon a Tractor
(1965)
Martin
Rapture
(1965)
Frederick Larbaud
Inherit the Wind
(1965)
Henry Drummond
Hotel
(1967)
Warren Trent
The Crucible
(1967)
Deputy Governor Danforth
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
(1967)
Peter Schermann
Companions in Nightmare
(1968)
Dr. Lawrence Strelson
I Never Sang for My Father
(1970)
Tom Garrison
Death Takes a Holiday
(1971)
Judge Earl Chapman
One Is a Lonely Number
(1972)
Joseph Provo
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
(1972)
Self (archive footage)
The Candidate
(1972)
John J. McKay
The Going Up of David Lev
(1973)
Grandfather
The Death Squad
(1974)
Police Captain Earl Kreski
Murder or Mercy
(1974)
Dr. Paul Harelson
The Tenant
(1976)
Monsieur Zy
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976)
(archive footage)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(1977)
Zachariah Guthrie
Intimate Strangers
(1977)
Donald's Father
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
(1977)
The Making of a President
(1978)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
(1979)
Senator Birney
Being There
(1979)
Benjamin Rand
Tell Me a Riddle
(1980)
David
The Changeling
(1980)
Senator Carmichael
Ghost Story
(1981)
Dr. John Jaffrey
The Hot Touch
(1983)
Max Reich
Hunters Are for Killing
(1987)
Keller Floran
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
(1988)
Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(1990)
(archive footage)
Disco and Atomic War
(2009)
Count Leon d'Algout (archive footage)