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Melvyn Douglas

(1901-1981)
American actor
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Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in 1929 as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the romantic comedy Ninotchka (1939) 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). Douglas was one of 24 performers to win the Triple Crown of Acting. In the last few years of his life Douglas appeared in films with supernatural stories involving ghosts, including The Changeling in 1980 and Ghost Story in 1981, his last completed film role.

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Born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
5 April 1901
Macon, Georgia, USA
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4 August 1981 (aged 80)
New York City, New York, USA
Zodiac Aries
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    Melvyn Gregory info 1st child with Rosalind Hightower Male b. 28 Jan 1926 · Age: 99 · 1926- · Celebrity Baby
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    Peter info 2nd child with Helen Gahagan Male b. 1933 · Age: 92 · 1933- · Celebrity Baby
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  • Illeana Douglas
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