Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas 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.

5 April 1901

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1901): Chester B. Bowles • Curt Bois • Doggie Julian

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Albert Champion (cyclist) • Andy Linden (racing driver) • Colin Powell • Daniel Schneidermann • Gale Storm • Georg Misch • Habib Elghanian • Ion Inculeț • Jonathan Erlich • Lana Clarkson • Luis de Agustini • Matheus Vivian • Pedro Rosselló • Peter Grant (music manager) • Ramón Mifflin • Song Jiaoren • Thure de Thulstrup

Born in the same month (April 1901): Ajoy Mukherjee • Chester B. Bowles • Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil • Doggie Julian • E. B. Ford • H. B. Stallard • Jacques Lacan • Jean Bruchési • Paul Willis (actor) • Pier Giorgio Frassati • Simon Kuznets • Whittaker Chambers