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Melvyn Douglas

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).

Highest rated movies

100% Tell Me A Riddle
100% I Never Sang for My Father
100% Hotel
100% A Woman's Face
100% Counsellor-at-Law
97% The Old Dark House
95% Being There
95% Ninotchka

Photos

HE STAYED FOR BREAKFAST, Melvyn Douglas, Loretta Young, 1940 HUD, Melvyn Douglas, 1963 I MET HIM IN PARIS, Melvyn Douglas, Claudette Colbert, 1937 MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE, Cary Grant, Melvyn Douglas, Myrna Loy, 1948 THE SEA OF GRASS, Melvyn Douglas, Spencer Tracy, 1947 THE SHINING HOUR, Melvyn Douglas, Margaret Sullavan, Joan Crawford, 1938 THE SHINING HOUR, Melvyn Douglas, 1938 SHE MARRIED HER BOSS, Melvyn Douglas, Claudette Colbert, 1935 THEY ALL KISSED THE BRIDE, from left, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Crawford, director Alexander Hall, outside Crawford's dressing room, 1942 THEY ALL KISSED THE BRIDE, from left, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Crawford, director Alexander Hall, outside Crawford's dressing room, 1942 THEY ALL KISSED THE BRIDE, from left, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Crawford, 1942 THIRD FINGER, LEFT HAND, Melvyn Douglas, 1940 THIRD FINGER, LEFT HAND, Melvyn Douglas, Myrna Loy, 1940 THIRD FINGER, LEFT HAND, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, 1940 THEODORA GOES WILD, Melvyn Douglas, 1936 THREE HEARTS FOR JULIA, Lee Bowman, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Ainley, Ann Sothern, 1943 THREE HEARTS FOR JULIA, Ann Sothern, Melvyn Douglas, 1943 TOO MANY HUSBANDS, Melvyn Douglas, 1940 TOO MANY HUSBANDS, Melvyn Douglas, 1940 THE TOY WIFE, Melvyn Douglas, Luise Rainer, Barbara O'Neil, 1938
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hot Touch Max Reich (Character) - 1982
29% 45% Ghost Story Dr. John Jaffrey (Character) - 1981
85% 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
84% 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 38% 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% 83% 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% 43% Hotel Warren Trent (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 69% Rapture Frederick Larbaud (Character) - 1965
93% 82% The Americanization of Emily Adm. William Jessup (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 47% Advance to the Rear Col. Claude Brackenbury (Character) - 1964
86% 89% Hud Homer Bannon (Character) - 1963
92% 87% 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 48% 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% 35% 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 40% 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% 28% Two-Faced Woman Lawrence 'Larry' Blake (Character) - 1941
63% 54% 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 62% Third Finger, Left Hand Jeff Thompson (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 43% Too Many Husbands Henry Lowndes (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet This Thing Called Love Tice Collins (Character) - 1940
95% 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 Good Girls Go to Paris Ronald Brooke (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tell No Tales Michael Cassidy (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 45% That Certain Age Vincent Bullitt (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 40% The Shining Hour Henry Linden (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 42% There's Always a Woman William Reardon (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 40% Arsene Lupin Returns Rene Farrand/Arsene Lupin (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 20% 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 15% I Met Him in Paris George Potter (Character) - 1937
95% 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 31% The Gorgeous Hussy John Randolph (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 74% 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 52% Annie Oakley Jeff Hogarth (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 47% She Married Her Boss Richard Barclay (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mary Burns, Fugitive Barton Powell (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 17% 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% 26% 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% 54% 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./Capt. Andre Verlaine (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 40% 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