Acting
Melvyn Douglas
Born April 5, 1901 · Macon, Georgia, USA
Died August 4, 1981 · aged 80
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) a…
Known For
The Tenant · 1976The Tenant
★ 7.61976
MovieThrillerMystery
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Being There · 1979Being There
★ 7.61979
MovieComedyDrama
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
The Changeling · 1980The Changeling
★ 7.01980
MovieHorror
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
Ninotchka · 1939Ninotchka
★ 7.51939
MovieComedyRomance
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Hud · 1963Hud
★ 7.31963
MovieDramaWestern
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
Ghost Story · 1981Ghost Story
★ 6.01981
MovieHorrorDrama
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Twilight's Last Gleaming · 1977Twilight's Last Gleaming
★ 6.51977
MovieThriller
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House · 1948Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
★ 7.01948
MovieComedy
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
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Billy Budd · 1962Billy Budd
★ 7.31962
MovieDramaAction
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
The Dansker, Sailmaker
Our Wife · 1941Our Wife
★ 6.81941
MovieComedy
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
Two-Faced Woman · 1941Two-Faced Woman
★ 6.41941
MovieComedyRomance
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Lawrence 'Larry' Blake
The Great Sinner · 1949The Great Sinner
★ 6.81949
MovieDramaRomance
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Armand De Glasse
Ben Casey · 1961Ben Casey
★ 5.91961
SeriesDrama
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