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Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas

American actor (1901-1981)
April 5, 1901 (August 4, 1981)
U.S. 1981. Fantasy by John Irvin with Craig Wasson, Alice Krige, Fred Astaire. In a small town in Vermont, four elderly men are tormented by the ghost of a young woman whose death they caused in their youth.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 1981. Crime drama by Roger Vadim with Wayne Rogers, Marie-France Pisier, Samantha Eggar.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1980. Psychological drama by Lee Grant with Lila Kedrova, Melvyn Douglas, Brooke Adams.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 129 min.
All. 1977. Drama by Robert Aldrich with Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Richard Widmark. A former general seizes a nuclear missile launch base and blackmails the U.S. government.
Runtime: 144 min.

The Tenant

V.O.: Le Locataire
Fr. 1976. Psychological drama by Roman Polanski with Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas. A man moves into an apartment left vacant after his tenant's suicide and is overcome by anxiety.
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 1974. Drama by Harvey Hart with Bradford Dillman, Denver Pyle, Melvyn Douglas. A renowned doctor is accused of causing his wife
Runtime: 73 min.
U.S. 1973. Drama by James F. Collier with Topol, Claire Bloom, Melvyn Douglas. In Israel, a young man investigates the circumstances surrounding his father's death during the Six-Day War.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Harry Falk with Robert Forster, Michèle Phillips, Melvyn Douglas. A police officer has to fight against colleagues who have set out to kill criminals who have escaped from the courts.
Runtime: 75 min.
U.S. 1972. Mores drama by Michael Ritchie with Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Don Porter. A campaign organizer convinces a young lawyer to run for the California Senate seat.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1971. Psychological drama by Mel Stuart with Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Janet Leigh. The disarray of a young woman forced into divorce by an unfaithful husband.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1971. Fantasy by Robert Butler with Monte Markham, Yvette Mimieux, Melvyn Douglas. In the form of a young man, death visits a rich family.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1970. Crime drama by Bernard Girard with Burt Reynolds, Melvyn Douglas, Suzanne Pleshette. After wandering for three years, a former prisoner returns to his hometown.
U.S. 1969. Psychological drama by Gilbert Cates with Gene Hackman, Melvyn Douglas, Estelle Parsons. A widowed professor is unable to communicate with his father, a self-centered autodidact who still has a strong hold on him.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1968. Crime drama by Norman Lloyd with Gig Young, Anne Baxter, Melvyn Douglas. A psychiatrist uses a therapeutic session to expose a murderer.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1967. Drama by Richard Quine with Rod Taylor, Melvyn Douglas, Karl Malden. The manager of a hotel in New Orleans has to deal with several problems.
Runtime: 124 min.
G.-B. 1965. Psychological drama by John Guillermin with Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell, Melvyn Douglas. A childlike teenager falls in love with a fugitive whom she imagines to be the embodiment of a scarecrow.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1964. Comedy by George Marshall with Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas. During the Civil War, an officer is put in charge of a battalion of irrecoverables.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1951. Psychological drama by Charles Lederer with Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari. A teenager who feels misunderstood commits some mischief.
Runtime: 78 min.
U.S. 1949. Drama by Compton Bennett with Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas, Wanda Hendrix. A high-ranking English civil servant and his son are in love with the same young girl.
Runtime: 84 min.
U.S. 1949. Drama by Robert Siodmak with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas. In 19th century Germany, a Russian novelist succumbs to his passion for gambling in an attempt to save a debt-ridden gambler with whom he has fallen in love.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1949. Crime drama by Nicholas Ray with Maureen O'Hara, Gloria Grahame, Melvyn Douglas. A woman confesses to shooting a singer whose career she supervised.
Runtime: 84 min.
U.S. 1948. Comedy by H.C. Potter with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas. A New York couple buys an old house in the suburbs.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1948. Psychological drama by Henry Levin with Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Sid Caesar. A war widow wants to know the five men that her husband died saving.
Runtime: 83 min.
U.S. 1945. Comedy by Alexander Hall with Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Billie Burke. Influenced by a journalist, an authoritarian businessperson finally breaks her strict habits.
U.S. 1942. Sentimental comedy by Alexander Hall with Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young. An authoritarian businessperson, who makes life difficult for those around her, is transformed by a journalist she has fallen in love with.
Runtime: 87 min.
U.S. 1941. Mores comedy by Ernst Lubitsch with Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith. An eccentric pianist comes to disturb the habits of a bourgeois household in New York.
Runtime: 84 min.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1941. Comedy by George Cukor with Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young. In order to test her husband, a young woman pretends to be her twin sister.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1940. Sentimental comedy by Robert Z. Leonard with Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1939. Police comedy by Alexander Hall with Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb.
U.S. 1939. Sentimental comedy by Ernst Lubitsch with Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Sig Rumann.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Rare Book Murder

V.O.: Fast Company
U.S. 1938. Police comedy by Edward Buzzell with Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd.
Runtime: 75 min.
U.S. 1938. Police comedy by George Fitzmaurice with Melvyn Douglas, Warren William, Virginia Bruce.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1938. Comedy by Edward Ludwig with Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Irene Rich.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1937. Sentimental drama by Ernst Lubitsch with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1937. Sentimental comedy by Wesley Ruggles with Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1933. Horror by Frank R. Strayer with Melvyn Douglas, Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill.
Runtime: 71 min.
U.S. 1932. Psychological drama by George Fitzmaurice with Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim.
Runtime: 71 min.
Runtime: 72 min.

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