Melvyn Douglas
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: April 5, 1901
Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, USA
Known For
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
This Thing Called Love
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
Inherit the Wind
A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal minds in the U.S. are called to the trial: Henry Drummond for the defense, and Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution. The trial proceeds on three levels, the guilt or innocence of Cates, the issue of the Bible vs. Darwin, and finally, the personal confrontation between Drummond and Brady.
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
Being There
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Max Reich
as Dr. John Jaffrey
as David
as Senator Carmichael
as Benjamin Rand
as Senator Birney
as Donald's Father
as Zachariah Guthrie
as Monsieur Zy
as (archive footage)
as Stateman Benjamin Franklin
as Dr. Paul Harelson
as Police Captain Earl Kreski
as Grandpa
as John J. McKay
as Joseph Provo
as Self (archive footage)
as Judge Earl Chapman
as Tom Garrison
as Keller Floran
as Self (archive footage)
as Dr. Lawrence Strelson
as Self - Guest
as Peter Schermann
as Deputy Governor Danforth
as Warren Trent
as Henry Drummond
as Martin
as Frederick Larbaud
as Admiral William Jessup
as Leon (archive footage)
as Col. Claude Brackenbury
as Dr. Mark Ryder
as Homer Bannon
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
as Burton Strang
as Gen. Parker
as Self - Host
as Stalin
as Howard Hoagland
as Gen. Parker
as Self
as self
as Professor Arthur Barris
as Henry Drummond
as Galileo Galilei
as Frank Bradley
as Paul Beaurevel
as Self - Guest Host
as Self - Guest Performer
as Self
as Self - Panelist
as Armand De Glasse
as Luke Jordan
as Cyril Ritchard
as Richard Gordon
as The Stranger
as Clive Heath
as Self
as Bill Cole
as Brice Chamberlain
as Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
as Jeff Seabrook
as Michael 'Mike' Holmes
as Nicholas Prax
as Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
as Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
as Larry Baker
as Tice Collins
as Jeff Thompson
as Paul Boliet
as Henry Lowndes
as Kenny Williams
as Count Leon d'Algout
as Ronald Brooke
as Michael Cassidy
as Self
as Melvyn Douglas
as William 'Bill' Reardon
as Henry Linden
as Vincent Bullitt
as Joel Sloane
as George Sartoris
as William H. Reardon
as Rene Farrand aka Arsene Lupin
as James Guthrie
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
as Frank Burton Cheyne
as George Potter
as Richard Stark
as Michael Grant
as John Randolph
as Stephen Blake
as Michael Lanyard
as Jeff Hogarth
as Barton Powell
as Richard Barclay
as George R. 'Traps' Stuart
as Charles Stanton
as Tony Robson
as Roy Darwin
as Dr. Walter Tradnor
as Karl Brettschneider
as Penderel
as Count Bruno Varelli
as Philip 'Phil' Marvin
as David Rolfe
as Capt. Andre Verlaine
as Jim Fletcher