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 Awardwinning performances in Hud 1963 and Being There 1979 and his Academy Awardnominated 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Douglas licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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