Melvyn Douglas
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as Monsieur Zy The Tenant 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 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 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.
Filmography
The Tenant
as Monsieur Zy
Being There
as Benjamin Rand
The Changeling
as Senator Carmichael
Ninotchka
as Count Leon d'Algout
Hud
as Homer Bannon
The Old Dark House
as Penderel
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Bill Cole
Captains Courageous
as Frank Burton Cheyne
The Candidate
as John J. McKay
Ghost Story
as Dr. John Jaffrey
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral William Jessup
Angel
as Anthony 'Tony' Halton
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Zachariah Guthrie
Billy Budd
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
The Vampire Bat
as Karl Brettschneider
A Woman's Face
as Dr. Gustaf Segert
That Uncertain Feeling
as Larry Baker
Theodora Goes Wild
as Michael Grant
A Woman's Secret
as Luke Jordan
I Never Sang for My Father
as Tom Garrison