| Full Name | Gustaf Douglas |
| Net Worth | 5.3 billion USD |
| Date Of Birth | March 3, 1938 |
| Died | August 4, 1981, New York City, New York, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Macon, Georgia, USA |
| Height | 1.86 m |
| Occupation | Actor, Singer |
| Profession | Politician, Actor |
| Work Position | Awards for Melvyn Douglas |
| Education | Harvard Business School, Upper Canada College |
| Nationality | Swedish, American |
| Spouse | Elisabeth von Essen, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Rosalind Hightower |
| Children | Carl Douglas, Eric Douglas, Melvyn Gregory Hesselberg, Peter Gahagan Douglas, Mary Helen Douglas |
| Parents | Carl Douglas, Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, Lena Priscilla Hesselberg |
| Siblings | George Douglas |
| Nicknames | Melvyn Douglas, Douglas, Melvyn |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0002048 |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| Movies | Being There, Ninotchka, Hud, I Never Sang for My Father, The Changeling, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Captains Courageous, The Vampire Bat, The Candidate, Tonight or Never, That Uncertain Feeling, Ghost Story, The Tenant, As You Desire Me, She Married Her Boss, Two-Faced Woman, The Old Dark... |
| TV Shows | Steve Randall, Frontier Justice, The Arthur Murray Party, Benjamin Franklin, Blind Date |
| Star Sign | Aries |
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| 1 | He played a Presidential candidate in Gore Vidal's play, and, years later, Vidal (who was not normally very complimentary about actors) remarked that he would have made a fine President in real life. |
| 2 | Douglas' father was a Russian-born concert pianist, who taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and encouraged his son to be a musician, but his Kentucky-born mother wanted him to take up law. |
| 3 | Is one of 9 actors to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Thomas Mitchell, Paul Scofield, Jack Albertson, Jason Robards, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, Geoffrey Rush and Christopher Plummer. |
| 4 | Brother of George Douglas. |
| 5 | He had six grandchildren when he died. |
| 6 | Two grandsons from son Gregory, named Stefan and Erik. |
| 7 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 240-242. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. |
| 8 | According to the March 31, 1941, issue of Time magazine, Douglas and Edward G. Robinson, who were both Democratic activists, bid $3,200 for the fedora hat that 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' had worn during his three successful campaigns for the presidency. They acquired the hat at a special Hollywood auction to benefit the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Douglas was active in liberal and progressive political causes in the 1930s and 1940s, which led to charges being leveled against him of being a Communist and/or a "fellow traveler" by far-right-wing Republicans during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era of the 1950s. Douglas' wife, Helen Gahagan Douglas, would later be elected to the US House of Representatives as a Democrat from California, but was defeated in her 1950 bid for the U.S. Senate by Republican Congressman Richard Nixon, who derisively called her "The Pink Lady" for what he termed her "leftist" leanings. President John F. Kennedy would appoint her Treasurer of the United States in 1961. When Ronald Reagan was elected US President in 1980, Douglas said that his former friend (who changed from a liberal Democrat to an extremely conservative Republican) had begun to believe the speeches he delivered for General Electric Co. when he was the host of General Electric Theater (1953),an anthology series sponsored by the company for which Reagan, in addition to acting, also did the commercials. |
| 9 | Won Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "The Best Man." |
| 10 | He had two children with second wife, Helen Gahagan: a son named Peter (b. 1933) and daughter Mary Helen (b. 1938). He had one son with his first wife, Rosalind, named Melvyn Gregory Hesselberg (b. January 28, 1926). |
| 11 | Grandfather of Illeana Douglas. |
| 12 | In 1967, he became the fifth performer to win the triple crown of acting. Oscar: Best Supporting Actor, Hud (1963) & Best Supporting Actor, Being There (1979), Tony: Best Actor-Play, The Best Man (1960), and Emmy: Best Actor-Drama, CBS Playhouse: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967) . |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| That Certain Age | 1938 | | Vincent Bullitt |
| Fast Company | 1938 | | Joel Sloane |
| The Toy Wife | 1938 | | George Sartoris |
| There's Always a Woman | 1938 | | William 'Bill' Reardon |
| Arsène Lupin Returns | 1938 | | Rene Farrand |
| I'll Take Romance | 1937 | | James Guthrie |
| Angel | 1937 | | Anthony 'Tony' Halton |
| I Met Him in Paris | 1937 | | George Potter |
| Captains Courageous | 1937 | | Mr. Cheyne |
| Women of Glamour | 1937 | | Richard 'Dick' Stark |
| Theodora Goes Wild | 1936 | | Michael Grant |
| The Gorgeous Hussy | 1936 | | John Randolph |
| And So They Were Married | 1936 | | Stephen Blake |
| The Lone Wolf Returns | 1935 | | Michael Lanyard |
| Annie Oakley | 1935 | | Jeff Hogarth |
| Mary Burns, Fugitive | 1935 | | Barton Powell |
| She Married Her Boss | 1935 | | Richard Barclay |
| The People's Enemy | 1935 | | George R. 'Traps' Stuart |
| Woman in the Dark | 1934 | | Tony Robson |
| Dangerous Corner | 1934 | | Charles |
| Counsellor at Law | 1933 | | Roy Darwin |
| Nagana | 1933 | | Dr. Walter Tradnor |
| The Vampire Bat | 1933 | | Karl Brettschneider |
| The Old Dark House | 1932 | | Penderel |
| As You Desire Me | 1932 | | Count Bruno Varelli |
| The Broken Wing | 1932 | | Philip 'Phil' Marvin |
| The Wiser Sex | 1932 | | David Rolfe |
| Prestige | 1932 | | Capt. Andre Verlaine |
| Tonight or Never | 1931 | | Jim Fletcher |
| Ghost Story | 1981 | | John Jaffrey |
| The Hot Touch | 1981 | | Max Reich |
| Tell Me a Riddle | 1980 | | David |
| The Changeling | 1980 | | Senator Carmichael |
| Being There | 1979 | | Benjamin Rand |
| The Seduction of Joe Tynan | 1979 | | Senator Birney |
| Intimate Strangers | 1977 | TV Movie | Donald's Father |
| ABC Weekend Specials | 1977 | TV Series | Grandpa Doc |
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | 1977 | | Zachariah Guthrie |
| The Tenant | 1976 | | Monsieur Zy |
| The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | 1974-1975 | TV Mini-Series | Benjamin Franklin |
| Murder or Mercy | 1974 | TV Movie | Dr. Paul Harelson - accused of his terminally-ill wife mercy killing |
| The Death Squad | 1974 | TV Movie | Police Captain Earl Kreski |
| The Going Up of David Lev | 1973 | TV Movie | Grandfather |
| Circle of Fear | 1972 | TV Series | Grandpa |
| The Candidate | 1972 | | John J. McKay |
| Two Is a Happy Number | 1972 | | Joseph Provo |
| Death Takes a Holiday | 1971 | TV Movie | Judge Earl Chapman |
| NET Playhouse | 1971 | TV Series | |
| I Never Sang for My Father | 1970 | | Tom Garrison |
| Hunters Are for Killing | 1970 | TV Movie | Keller Floran |
| The Choice | 1969 | TV Movie | |
| Companions in Nightmare | 1968 | TV Movie | Dr. Lawrence Strelson - a psychiatrist |
| CBS Playhouse | 1967 | TV Series | Peter Schermann |
| The Crucible | 1967 | TV Movie | Governor Danforth |
| Hotel | 1967 | | Warren Trent |
| Lamp at Midnight | 1966 | TV Movie | Galileo Galilei |
| The Fugitive | 1966 | TV Series | Dr. Mark Ryder |
| Inherit the Wind | 1965 | TV Movie | Henry Drummond |
| Once Upon a Tractor | 1965 | Short | Martin |
| Rapture | 1965 | | Frederick Larbaud |
| The Americanization of Emily | 1964 | | Adm. William Jessup |
| Advance to the Rear | 1964 | | Col. Claude Brackenbury |
| A Very Close Family | 1964 | TV Movie | Father |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1963 | TV Series | Pat Konke |
| Kraft Mystery Theater | 1963 | TV Series | |
| Hud | 1963 | | Homer Bannon |
| Ben Casey | 1963 | TV Series | Burton Strang |
| Billy Budd | 1962 | | The Dansker - Sailmaker |
| Sunday Showcase | 1960 | TV Series | Mark Twain |
| Frontier Justice | 1959 | TV Series | Host |
| Playhouse 90 | 1957-1959 | TV Series | Gen. Parker / Ansel Gibbs / Stalin / ... |
| The United States Steel Hour | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Dr. Victor Payson / Census Taker / Narrator |
| General Electric Theater | 1957 | TV Series | Professor Barris |
| Goodyear Playhouse | 1957 | TV Series | Ira Sterling |
| The Alcoa Hour | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Jim Conway / Charles Turner |
| Kraft Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | |
| Windows | 1955 | TV Series | |
| The Ford Television Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | George Manners |
| Steve Randall | 1952 | TV Series | Steve Randall |
| Lights Out | 1952 | TV Series | |
| Studio One in Hollywood | 1952 | TV Series | Stefan |
| Celanese Theatre | 1952 | TV Series | Archduke Rudolph von Hapsburg |
| On the Loose | 1951 | | Frank Bradley |
| My Forbidden Past | 1951 | | Paul Beaurevel |
| Starlight Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
| Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | 1950 | TV Series | Martin Luther Cooper / Eugene Morgan |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1950 | TV Series | James Strickland |
| The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse | 1949 | TV Series | Richard Gordon |
| The Great Sinner | 1949 | | Armand de Glasse |
| My Own True Love | 1949 | | Clive Heath |
| A Woman's Secret | 1949 | | Luke Jordan |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | 1948 | | Bill Cole |
| The Guilt of Janet Ames | 1947 | | Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb |
| The Sea of Grass | 1947 | | Brice Chamberlain |
| Three Hearts for Julia | 1943 | | Jeff Seabrook |
| They All Kissed the Bride | 1942 | | Michael 'Mike' Holmes |
| We Were Dancing | 1942 | | Nicholas Eugen August Wolfgang 'Nikki' Prax, aka Mr. Manescu |
| Two-Faced Woman | 1941 | | Larry Blake |
| Our Wife | 1941 | | Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin |
| A Woman's Face | 1941 | | Dr. Gustaf Segert |
| That Uncertain Feeling | 1941 | | Larry Baker |
| This Thing Called Love | 1940 | | Tice Collins |
| Third Finger, Left Hand | 1940 | | Jeff Thompson |
| He Stayed for Breakfast | 1940 | | Paul Boliet |
| Too Many Husbands | 1940 | | Henry Lowndes |
| The Amazing Mr. Williams | 1939 | | Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams |
| Ninotchka | 1939 | | Count Leon d'Algout |
| Good Girls Go to Paris | 1939 | | Ronald Brooke |
| Tell No Tales | 1939 | | Michael Cassidy |
| There's That Woman Again | 1938 | | William 'Bill' Reardon |
| The Shining Hour | 1938 | | Henry Linden |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| We Were Dancing | 1942 | "The Wedding March" 1843, uncredited | |
| Third Finger, Left Hand | 1940 | performer: "The Riddle" 1940 - uncredited | |
| Arsène Lupin Returns | 1938 | performer: "Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major Opus 9" 1830-1 - uncredited | |
| Angel | 1937 | performer: "Angel" 1937 | |
| Theodora Goes Wild | 1936 | "Pop! Goes the Weasel", "The Farmer in the Dell", "Be Still My Heart" 1936, uncredited / performer: "The Last Round-Up Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along" 1933, "Three Blind Mice" - uncredited | |
| And So They Were Married | 1936 | performer: "In the Gloaming" 1877 - uncredited | |
| The Old Dark House | 1932 | "Oh! Mr. Porter", "Here Comes the Bride", uncredited / performer: "Singin' in the Rain" 1929 - uncredited | |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1980 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 43rd Annual Academy Awards | 1971 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Lillian Gish |
| The David Frost Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1968-1970 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Project XX | 1969 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1955-1968 | TV Series | Spofford / Griffith P. Hastings / Himself |
| The 17th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Himself - Accepting Emmy Award for Alfred Lunt |
| Gala Adlai on Broadway | 1960 | TV Movie | Himself - Performer |
| Land of Promise | 1960 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| The 14th Annual Tony Awards | 1960 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
| The Garry Moore Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Playhouse 90 | 1958 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| The Arthur Murray Party | 1953-1957 | TV Series | Himself |
| What's My Line? | 1951-1957 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest |
| I've Got a Secret | 1952 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Name's the Same | 1952 | TV Series | Himself - Contestant |
| Your Show of Shows | 1950 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Performer |
| Your Big Moment | 1949 | TV Series | Host |
| The Cavalcade of Academy Awards from 1928-1939 | 1940 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 | 1939 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 | 1939 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4 | 1938 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|
| 1980 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Being There (1979) |
| 1980 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture | Being There (1979) |
| 1979 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being There (1979) |
| 1979 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being There (1979) |
| 1968 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama | CBS Playhouse (1967) |
| 1964 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Male Supporting Performance | Hud (1963) |
| 1964 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Hud (1963) |
| 1963 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Supporting Actor | Hud (1963) |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6423 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Television | Awarded February 8, 1960 at 6601 Hollywood Blvd. |
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|
| 1981 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Supporting Actor | The Changeling (1980) |
| 1971 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Leading Role | I Never Sang for My Father (1970) |
| 1971 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | I Never Sang for My Father (1970) |
| 1971 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Best Dramatic Performance, Male | I Never Sang for My Father (1970) |
| 1966 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama | Inherit the Wind (1965) |
| 1965 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Supporting Performance, Male | The Americanization of Emily (1964) |
| 1964 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actor | Hud (1963) |
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