Melvyn Douglas (Actor)

Reviews of Melvyn Douglas Movies

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Movies starring Melvyn Douglas have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.

Being There - released in 1979 - is Melvyn Douglas's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 624 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Melvyn Douglas is One Is a Lonely Number - released in 1972 - with a score of 44% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) what is 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 a film 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.

Melvyn Douglas has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Joan Crawford, Whit Bissell and Robert Young.

Melvyn Douglas has worked with these film directors: Alexander Hall, Ernst Lubitsch, Roman Polanski and Gene Kelly.