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): Andy Linden (racing driver) • Chen Yanqing • Emmalyn (singer) • Emre Güral • Georgi Markov (wrestler) • Gerson Acevedo • Matthias Jaissle • Miho Hatori • Odlanier Solís • Pierre Nihant • Samuel Cate Prescott • Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet • Vítězslav Hálek • Yassine Bounou

Born in the same month (April 1901): Ajoy Mukherjee • Al Lewis (lyricist) • Alan Watt (diplomat) • Chester B. Bowles • Curt Bois • Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil • Doggie Julian • E. B. Ford • H. B. Stallard • Hirohito • Jacques Lacan • Jean Bruchési • Joe Davis • Lowell Stockman • László Németh • Paul Willis (actor) • Pier Giorgio Frassati • René Pleven • Simon Kuznets • Whittaker Chambers