Mini-Biography:
Melvyn Douglas was born on April 5, 1901 in Macon, GA, USA. He was an American Actor, known for Sea of Grass (1947), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), A Woman's secret (1948), Melvyn Douglas's first movie on record is from 1931. Melvyn Douglas died on August 4, 1981. His last motion picture on file dates from 1981.
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1981: Ghost story (Cast: John Jaffrey), Directed by John Irvin, with Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks jr.,
1979: The Seduction of Joe Tynan (Cast), Directed by Jerry Schatzberg, with , Alan Alda, Chris Arnold,
1979: The changeling (Cast: Senator Carmichael), Directed by Peter Medak, with Barry Morse, George C. Scott,
1979: Being there (Cast: Benjamin Rand), Directed by Hal Ashby, with Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers,
1977: Twilight's Last Gleaming (Cast: Guthrie), Directed by Robert Aldrich, with Joseph Cotten, Richard W. Demarest,
1976: Le Locataire (The Tenant) (Cast: Monsieur), Directed by Roman Polanski, with Isabelle Adjani, Bernard Fresson,
1972: The Candidate (Cast: John J. McKay), Directed by Michael Ritchie, with Peter Boyle, Karen Carlson,
1971: Death takes a Holiday (Cast), Directed by Robert Butler, with Colby Chester, Bert Convy,
1970: Hunters are for Killing (Cast: Keller Florin), Directed by Bernard Girard, with Martin Balsam, Jim Banner,
1966: Hotel (Cast), Directed by Richard Quine, with Merle Oberon,
1965: Rapture (Cast: Frederick Larbaud), Directed by John Guillermin, with Murray Evans, Patrizia Gozzi,
1964: The Americanization of Emily (Cast: Jessup), Directed by Arthur Hiller, with Julie Andrews, James Coburn,
1963: Advance to the rear ! (Cast), Directed by George Marshall, with Jim Backus, Joan Blondell,
1963: Hud (Cast: Homer Bannon), Directed by Martin Ritt, with Paul Newman, Patricia Neal,
1962: Billy Budd (Cast), Directed by Peter Ustinov, with Ronald Lewis, Niall MacGinnis,
1950: My forbidden past (Cast: Paul Beaurevel), Directed by Robert Stevenson, with Ava Gardner, Robert Mitchum,
1949: The great sinner (Cast: De Glasse), Directed by Robert Siodmak, with Ava Gardner, Walter Huston,
1948: A Woman's secret (The long denial) (Cast: Luke Jordan), Directed by Nicholas Ray, with Jay C. Flippen, Gloria Grahame,
1948: My own true love (Cast: Clive Heath), Directed by Compton Bennett, with Phyllis Calvert, Wanda Hendrix,
1948: Mr. Blandings builds his dreamhouse (Cast: Bill Cole), Directed by H.C. Potter, with Melvin Frank, Lex Barker, Louise Beavers,
1947: Sea of Grass (Cast: Brice), Directed by Elia Kazan, with Naomi Childers, Edgar Buchanan, Spencer Tracy,
1942: We were dancing (Cast: Nicki Prax), Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, with Florence Bates, Lee Bowman,
1942: Three Hearts for Julia (Cast), Directed by Richard Thorpe, with Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman,
1941: Our Wife (Cast: Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin), Directed by John M. Stahl, with Ruth Hussey, Ellen Drew,
1941: The Two-faced Woman (Cast: Larry Blake), Directed by George Cukor, with Greta Garbo, Constance Bennett,
1941: That uncertain feeling (Cast), Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Merle Oberon, Burgess Meredith,
1941: Woman's Face (Cast: Dr. Gustaf Segert ), Directed by George Cukor, with Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt,
1940: Third finger, left hand (Cast: Jeff Thompson), Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, with Myrna Loy, Ernest Whitman,
1939: Good Girls Go to Paris (Cast), Directed by Alexander Hall, with Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly,
1939: Ninotchka (Cast: Graf Léon d'Algout), Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Felix Bressart, Richard Carle, Ina Claire,
1939: The Shining Hour (Cast: Henry Linden), Directed by Frank Borzage, with Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young,
1938: The Toy Wife (Frou Frou) (Cast: George Sartoris), Directed by Richard Thorpe, with Theresa Harris, Walter Kingsford,
1938: There's always a Woman (Cast), Directed by Alexander Hall, with Joan Blondell, Mary Astor,
1937: Captains Courageous (Cast), Directed by Victor Fleming, with Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew,
1937: Angel (Cast: Anthony Halton), Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall,
1937: I met his in Paris (Cast), Directed by Wesley Ruggles, with Fritz Feld, Claudette Colbert,
1936: The Gorgeous Hussy (Cast: John Randolph ), Directed by Clarence Brown, with Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore,
1935: She married her boss (Voglio essere amata) (Cast), Directed by Gregory La Cava, with Claudette Colbert, Katharine Alexander,
1935: Mary Burns, Fugitive (Cast), Directed by William K. Howard, with Alan Baxter, Sylvia Sidney,
1935: The People's Enemy (Cast), with Lila Lee, Shirley Grey,
1934: Woman in the Dark (The Woman in the Shadow) (Cast), Directed by Phil Rosen, with Fay Wray, Frank Otto, Ralph Bellamy,
1933: Counsellor at Law (Cast: Roy Darwin), Directed by William Wyler, with John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon,
1933: The vampire bat (Cast: Karl Brettschneider ), Directed by Frank R. Strayer, with Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray,
1932: The Wiser Sex (Cast), Directed by Berthold Viertel, with William Boyd, Clive Brook, Lilyan Tashman,
1932: As you desire me (Cast: Graf Bruno Varelli), Directed by George Fitzmaurice, with Greta Garbo, Erich von Stroheim,
1931: Tonight or Never (Cast: Jim Fletcher), Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with Gloria Swanson, Alison Skipworth,
Bibliography
International Dictionnary of Films and Filmmakers, Vol 3: Actors and Actresses, St James Press, Detroit and London, 2nd edition 1992