Melvyn Douglas

and one for television at 6601 Hollywood Blvd. From 1970 to 1978, he was married to the French actress Anouk Aimée. Douglas has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 6423 Hollywood Blvd. It ran from 2000 until 2002, then again for a mini-series in 2003. It was Gahagan who gave Nixon his epithet "Tricky Dick.". His most recent TV credit is the leading role in My Uncle Silas, about a Cornish country gentleman, who's looking after his grand-nephew. Nixon went so far as to call her "pink right down to her underwear". In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head.

Nixon accused Gahagan of being a Communist because of her opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. His television roles include the lead in Dennis Potter's final two plays: Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. As a two-term Congresswoman, she was Richard Nixon's opponent for the United States Senate seat from California in 1950. Albert Finney has often been called "A second Olivier". Douglas was married for fifty years to actress-turned-politician Helen Gahagan Douglas. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia). As Douglas grew older, he took on the older-man and father roles, in such movies as The Americanization of Emily, Hud, The Candidate and I Never Sang for My Father, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. E.

Blandings Builds His Dream House, a role that was made for him. This led to a series of "angry young man" roles in kitchen sink dramas, most notably 1963's Tom Jones (for which he turned down the role of T. During World War II, Douglas worked first as a director of the Office of Civilian Defense, before he left to serve in the United States Army. He returned to such comedy roles as in Mr. His first film was The Entertainer (1960), but his real breakthrough came with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. He was the hero in the 1932 horror film The Vampire Bat and the sophisticated leading man in 1935's She Married Her Boss. His first major role was opposite Greta Garbo in Ninotchka in 1939, and he starred with her again in 1941's Two-Faced Woman (they had also appeared together in 1932 in As You Desire Me). He was born in Salford, Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg in Macon, Georgia, he had a long film career, stretching from 1931 until just before his death. "People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent" he said.