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Melvyn Douglas
Macon, Georgia, USA
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…
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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.
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2014
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Movie (archive footage)
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1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1982
The Hot Touch
Movie Max Reich
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show David
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1981
Ghost Story
Movie John Jaffrey
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1980
Tell Me a Riddle
Movie David
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1980
The Changeling
Movie Senator Carmichael
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1979
Being There
Movie Benjamin Rand
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1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Movie Senator Birney
- 1978
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1977
Intimate Strangers
Movie Donald's Father
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1977
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Movie Grandpa Doc
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1977
ABC Weekend Specials
TV show Grandpa Doc
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1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie Zachariah Guthrie
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1976
A Gift To Last
Movie Old Clement Sturgess
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1976
The Tenant
Movie Monsieur Zy
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1974
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV show Stateman Benjamin Franklin
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1974
Murder or Mercy
Movie Dr. Paul Harelson
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1974
The Death Squad
Movie Police Captain Earl Kreski
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1973
The Going Up of David Lev
Movie Grandfather
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1972
Ghost Story
TV show Grandpa
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1972
The Candidate
Movie John J. McKay
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1972
One Is a Lonely Number
Movie Joseph Provo
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1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1971
Death Takes a Holiday
Movie Judge Earl Chapman
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1970
I Never Sang for My Father
Movie Tom Garrison
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1970
Hunters Are for Killing
Movie Keller Floran
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1969
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1968
Companions in Nightmare
Movie Dr. Lawrence Strelson
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1967
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Movie Peter Schermann
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1967
The Crucible
Movie Deputy Governor Danforth
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1967
Hotel
Movie Warren Trent
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1966
CBS Playhouse
TV show Peter Schermann
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1965
Inherit the Wind
Movie Henry Drummond
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1965
Once Upon a Tractor
Movie Martin
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1965
Rapture
Movie Frederick Larbaud
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1964
The Americanization of Emily
Movie Admiral William Jessup
