ACTOR

Melvyn Douglas

1901 - 1981

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melvyn Douglas has received more than 1,932,779 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Melvyn Douglas is the 1,556th most popular actor (up from 1,704th in 2019), the 2,608th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,864th in 2019) and the 731st most popular American Actor.

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  • 48

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  • 2.95

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  • 5.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Melvyn Douglas ranks 1,556 out of 13,578. Before him are Melissa Leo, Anthony Steffen, Samantha Fox, Andrew Lincoln, Van Heflin, and Maria Cebotari. After him are Mercedes McCambridge, Hugh Fraser, Werner Krauss, Barry Nelson, Maïwenn, and Tod Browning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Melvyn Douglas ranks 105. Before him are Miklós Nyiszli, Marino Marini, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Peter van de Kamp, Alexander Fadeyev, and Otto Wächter. After him are Fred Uhlman, Cassandre, René Pleven, Michel Leiris, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, and Hellmuth Stieff. Among people deceased in 1981, Melvyn Douglas ranks 65. Before him are Giuseppe Pella, Lotte Reiniger, Gunichi Mikawa, Valeri Kharlamov, Gloria Grahame, and Natalia Pavlovna Paley. After him are D. R. Bendre, Ferruccio Parri, Jean Eustache, Ziaur Rahman, Nelson Algren, and Kirill Kondrashin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melvyn Douglas ranks 2,608 out of 20,380. Before him are Marc Anthony (1968), Melissa Leo (1960), Mike Markkula (1942), Bill Hewlett (1913), Frank Marshall (1877), and Van Heflin (1908). After him are John C. Woods (1911), Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Billy Ray Cyrus (1961), Barry Nelson (1917), and Adrian Smith (1944).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Melvyn Douglas ranks 731. Before him are John Glover (1944), Alicia Rhett (1915), Jennifer Coolidge (1961), Ned Beatty (1937), Melissa Leo (1960), and Van Heflin (1908). After him are Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Barry Nelson (1917), Tod Browning (1880), Lew Ayres (1908), Drew Barrymore (1975), and J. T. Walsh (1943).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Tenant
Monsieur Zy
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
May 26o 19767.6 / 10
Being There
Benjamin Rand
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.
Dec 19o 19797.608 / 10
The Changeling
Senator Carmichael
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.
Mar 28o 19807 / 10