Biography
Melvyn Douglas
Real name: Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg
Effective period / Period of releases: 1959
American actor.Born 5 April 1901 in Macon, Georgia, USA.
Died 4 August 1981 in New York City, New York, USA.
He was married to actress Helen Gahagan Douglas.
Son of songwriters Edouard Hesselberg and Lena Hesselberg.
He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Paul Newman's father in Hud (1963). He won his second Oscar for Being There (1979)