Melvyn Douglas
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Melvyn Douglas was an American actor who had a long career in film, television, and theater spanning much of the 20th century. He is remembered as a distinguished performer who worked across multiple entertainment mediums during Hollywood's golden age and beyond.
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- Born
- 1901-04-05
- Died
- 1981-08-04
- Works
- 14
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- Great American speeches
- The waltz of the toreadors
- Two blind mice
- Time out for Ginger
- Spofford
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Acting · 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 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)…
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- Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo — Self (archive footage)2014
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To — (archive footage)1990
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)1988
- The Hot Touch — Max Reich1982
- Ghost Story — Dr. John Jaffrey1981
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Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor, whose stage and screen careers spanned from the late 1920s until the early 1980s. He was one of 24 performers to win the Triple Crown of Acting - winning two Academy Awards (both in the Best Supporting Actor category), a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.
He came to prominence in 1929 as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the romantic comedy Ninotchka (1939) with Greta Garbo, and appeared in many films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Douglas later played mature and fatherly characters, as in his Oscar-winning performances in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979) and his Oscar–nominated performance in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Gore Vidal's play The Best Man (1960).
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