Melvyn Douglas
Highest Rated: 100% Counsellor-at-Law (1933)
Lowest Rated: 14% The Sea of Grass (1947)
Birthday: Apr 05, 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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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Touch | Max Reich (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 35% | 43% | Ghost Story | Dr. John Jaffrey (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Tell Me A Riddle | David (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 83% | 79% | The Changeling | Senator Joe Carmichael (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 95% | 92% | Being There | Benjamin Turnbull Rand (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 86% | 38% | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Senator Birney (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Intimate Strangers | Donald's Father (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 88% | 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 |
| 88% | 74% | The Candidate | John J. McKay (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Death Takes a Holiday | Judge Earl Chapman (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunters Are for Killing | Keller Floran (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 100% | 81% | I Never Sang for My Father | Tom Garrison (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Companions in Nightmare | Dr. Lawrence Strelson (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 100% | 38% | Hotel | Warren Trent (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Rapture | Frederick Larbaud (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Advance to the Rear | Col. Claude Brackenbury (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 93% | 82% | The Americanization of Emily | Adm. William Jessup (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 83% | 89% | Hud | Homer Bannon (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 90% | 88% | Billy Budd | The Dansker (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On the Loose | Frank Bradley (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | My Forbidden Past | Paul Beaurevel (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 43% | 33% | A Woman's Secret | Luke Jordan (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Great Sinner | Armand de Glasse (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 82% | 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 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Guilt of Janet Ames | Smithfield `'Smitty'` Cobb (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 14% | 35% | The Sea of Grass | Brice Chamberlain (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 | 62% | We Were Dancing | Nicholas Eugen August Wolfgang "Nikki" Prax (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 67% | 57% | That Uncertain Feeling | Larry Baker (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 33% | 29% | Two-Faced Woman | Lawrence 'Larry' Blake (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Wife | Jerome "Jerry" Marvin (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 83% | A Woman's Face | Dr. Gustaf Segert (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Too Many Husbands | Henry Lowndes (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Third Finger, Left Hand | Jeff Thompson (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Thing Called Love | Tice Collins (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Girls Go to Paris | Ronald Brooke (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tell No Tales | Michael Cassidy (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 97% | 89% | Ninotchka | Count Leon d'Algout (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There's That Woman Again | William "Bill" Reardon (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arsene Lupin Returns |
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- | 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 | 45% | There's Always a Woman | William Reardon (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Shining Hour | Henry Linden (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | That Certain Age | Vincent Bullitt (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rare Book Murder | Joel Sloane (Character) | - | 1938 |
| 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 | 18% | I Met Him in Paris | George Potter (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 80% | 64% | Angel | Anthony `'Tony'` Halton (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 94% | 89% | Captains Courageous | Frank Burton Cheyne (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And So They Were Married | Stephen Blake (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lone Wolf Returns | Michael Lanyard (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Theodora Goes Wild | Michael Grant (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | The Gorgeous Hussy | John Randolph (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Barton Powell (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The People's Enemy | George R. "Traps" Stuart (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | She Married Her Boss | Richard Barclay (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Annie Oakley | Jeff Hogarth (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 |
| 60% | 26% | The Vampire Bat | Karl Brettschneider (Character) | - | 1933 |
| 100% | 77% | Counsellor-at-Law | Roy Darwin (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wiser Sex | David Rolfe (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Broken Wing | Philip 'Phil' Marvin (Character) | - | 1932 |
| 86% | 61% | As You Desire Me | Count Bruno Varelli (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prestige |
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- | 1932 |
| 96% | 71% | The Old Dark House | Penderel (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tonight or Never | Jim Fletcher (Character) | - | 1931 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
QUOTES FROM Melvyn Douglas CHARACTERS
Margaret Waverton says: For now heaven's sake stop, let's look at a map or something.
Roger Penderell says: My own view is we're not on a map.
Count Leon Dalga says: Ninotchka, you like me just a little bit?
Ninotchka says: Your general appearance is not distasteful.
Count Leon Dalga says: Thank you.
Ninotchka says: The whites of your eyes are clear. Your cornea is excellent.
Count Leon Dalga says: - your cornea's terrific! Ninotchka tell me, you're so expert on things: can it be that I'm falling in love with you?
Ninotchka says: Why must you bring in wrong values? Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological, or shall we say chemical, process. A lot of nonsense is taught and written about it.
Count Leon Dalga says: Oh I see. What do you use instead?
Ninotchka says: I acknowledge the existence of a natural impulse, common to all.
Count Leon Dalga says: What can I possibly do to encourage such an impulse in you?
Count Leon Dalga says: You don't have to do a thing. Chemically we're already quite sympathetic.
Ninotchka says: I must go.
Count Leon Dalga says: But Ninotchka - I held you in my arms, you kissed me.
Ninotchka says: I kissed a polish lancer too - before he died.
Count Leon Dalga says: Pardon me, are you an explorer?
Ninotchka says: No. I'm looking for the Eiffel Tower.
Count Leon Dalga says: Good Heavens, is that thing lost again? Oh, are you interested in the view?
Ninotchka says: I'm interested in the Eiffel Tower from a technical standpoint.
Count Leon Dalga says: Technical? No, no; I'm afraid I couldn't be of much help from that angle. You see a Parisian only goes to the tower in moments of despair - to jump off.
Count Leon Dalga says: Technical? No, no, I'm afraid I couldn't be of much help from that angle. You see a Parisian only goes to the tower in moments of despair - to jump off.
Ninotchka says: How long does it take a man to land?
Count Leon Dalga says: Now isn't that too bad; the last time I jumped I forgot to time it.
Count Leon Dalga says: Now isn't that too bad, the last time I jumped I forgot to time it.
Bill Cole says: You've been taken to the cleaners, and you don't even know your pants are off.
Muriel Blandings says: I refuse to endanger the lives of my children in a house with less than four bathrooms.
Jim Blandings says: replies: For 1,300 dollars they can live in a house with three bathrooms and ROUGH IT.
Joan Blandings says: Oh look. Mother's diary. It's slightly torrid.
Jim Blandings says: What's with this kissing all of a sudden? I don't like it. Every time he goes out of this house, he shakes my hand and kisses you.
Muriel Blandings says: replies to Jim: Would you prefer it the other way around?
Bill Cole says: The next time you're going to do anything or say anything or buy anything, think it over very carefully. When you're sure you're right, forget the whole thing.
Homer Bannon says: You're an unprincipled man, Hud.
Homer Bannon says: You're an unprincipled young man Hud.
Hud Bannon says: Don't let that worry you none. You got enough for both of us.
Homer Bannon says: You're an unprincipled man, Hud.
Homer Bannon says: You're an unprincipled young man Hud.
Ninotchka says: Must you flirt?
Count Leon Dalga says: Well, I don't have to, but I find it natural.
Ninotchka says: Suppress it.
Count Leon Dalga says: Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.