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Melvyn Douglas
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.
As actor
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
The Hot Touch
Ghost Story
The Changeling
Tell Me a Riddle
Being There
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
The Making of a President
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Intimate Strangers
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
The Tenant
That's Entertainment, Part II
A Gift To Last
Murder or Mercy
The Death Squad
The Going Up of David Lev
The Candidate
One Is a Lonely Number
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Death Takes a Holiday
I Never Sang for My Father
Hunters Are for Killing
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Companions in Nightmare
Hotel
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
The Crucible