
Melvyn Douglas
Highest Rated: 100% Tell Me A Riddle (1980)
Lowest Rated: 14% The Sea of Grass (1947)
Birthday: Apr 5, 1901
Birthplace: Macon, Georgia, USA
Broadway star, in Hollywood from 1931. Often played the suave sophisticate in pursuit of a beautiful woman, as in Ernst Lubitsch's classic "Ninotchka" (1939) opposite Greta Garbo. Douglas began appearing in supporting roles in the early 1960s and turned in an award-winning performance in "Hud" (1963).








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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Touch | Max Reich (Character) | - | 1982 |
29% | 44% | Ghost Story | Dr. John Jaffrey (Character) | - | 1981 |
83% | 79% | The Changeling | Senator Joe Carmichael (Character) | - | 1980 |
100% | 60% | Tell Me A Riddle | David (Character) | - | 1980 |
95% | 92% | Being There | Benjamin Turnbull Rand (Character) | - | 1979 |
75% | 38% | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Senator Birney (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Intimate Strangers | Donald's Father (Character) | - | 1977 |
83% | 87% | The Tenant | Monsieur Zy (Character) | $9.6K | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lives of Ben Franklin: The Statesman | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder or Mercy | Dr. Paul Harelson (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Death Squad | Police Captain Earl Kreski (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Going Up of David Lev | Grandfather (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 33% | One Is a Lonely Number | Joseph Provo (Character) | - | 1972 |
89% | 74% | The Candidate | John J. McKay (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Death Takes a Holiday | Judge Earl Chapman (Character) | - | 1971 |
100% | 82% | I Never Sang for My Father | Tom Garrison (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunters Are for Killing | Keller Floran (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Companions in Nightmare | Dr. Lawrence Strelson (Character) | - | 1968 |
100% | 40% | Hotel | Warren Trent (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Rapture | Frederick Larbaud (Character) | - | 1965 |
93% | 82% | The Americanization of Emily | Adm. William Jessup (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Advance to the Rear | Col. Claude Brackenbury (Character) | - | 1964 |
84% | 89% | Hud | Homer Bannon (Character) | - | 1963 |
91% | 91% | Billy Budd | The Dansker (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 36% | My Forbidden Past | Paul Beaurevel (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On the Loose | Frank Bradley (Character) | - | 1951 |
43% | 36% | A Woman's Secret | Luke Jordan (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Great Sinner | Armand de Glasse (Character) | - | 1949 |
86% | 76% | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Bill Cole (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Own True Love | Clive Heath (Character) | - | 1948 |
14% | 36% | The Sea of Grass | Brice Chamberlain (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Guilt of Janet Ames | Smithfield `'Smitty'` Cobb (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Hearts for Julia | Jeff Seabrook (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 44% | They All Kissed the Bride | Mike Holmes (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | 57% | We Were Dancing | Nicholas Eugen August Wolfgang "Nikki" Prax (Character) | - | 1942 |
30% | 29% | Two-Faced Woman | Lawrence 'Larry' Blake (Character) | - | 1941 |
71% | 55% | That Uncertain Feeling | Larry Baker (Character) | - | 1941 |
100% | 83% | A Woman's Face | Dr. Gustaf Segert (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Wife | Jerome "Jerry" Marvin (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Third Finger, Left Hand | Jeff Thompson (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Too Many Husbands | Henry Lowndes (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Thing Called Love | Tice Collins (Character) | - | 1940 |
97% | 89% | Ninotchka | Count Leon d'Algout (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tell No Tales | Michael Cassidy (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Girls Go to Paris | Ronald Brooke (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 50% | That Certain Age | Vincent Bullitt (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 39% | The Shining Hour | Henry Linden (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 42% | There's Always a Woman | William Reardon (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arsene Lupin Returns |
Rene Farrand/ |
- | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There's That Woman Again | William "Bill" Reardon (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Toy Wife | George Sartoris (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Company | Joel Sloane (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rare Book Murder | Joel Sloane (Character) | - | 1938 |
80% | 65% | Angel | Anthony `'Tony'` Halton (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 18% | I Met Him in Paris | George Potter (Character) | - | 1937 |
94% | 89% | Captains Courageous | Frank Burton Cheyne (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women of Glamour | Dick (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I'll Take Romance | James Guthrie (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 29% | And So They Were Married | Stephen Blake (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 32% | The Gorgeous Hussy | John Randolph (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Theodora Goes Wild | Michael Grant (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lone Wolf Returns | Michael Lanyard (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The People's Enemy | George R. "Traps" Stuart (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 53% | Annie Oakley | Jeff Hogarth (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 50% | She Married Her Boss | Richard Barclay (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Barton Powell (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Woman in the Dark | Tony Robson (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dangerous Corner | Charles (Character) | - | 1934 |
100% | 79% | Counsellor-at-Law | Roy Darwin (Character) | - | 1933 |
67% | 27% | The Vampire Bat | Karl Brettschneider (Character) | - | 1933 |
97% | 70% | The Old Dark House | Penderel (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wiser Sex | David Rolfe (Character) | - | 1932 |
86% | 56% | As You Desire Me | Count Bruno Varelli (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Broken Wing | Philip 'Phil' Marvin (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prestige |
Lt./ |
- | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Tonight or Never | Jim Fletcher (Character) | - | 1931 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs | Unknown (Character) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Dr. Mark Ryder (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Burton Strang (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Charles Turner (Character) | 1955-1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1951 |