FrameThrower · Actors · Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas
3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1963–1979
Born 5 April 1901 · Macon, Georgia, USA · died 4 August 1981
Melvyn Douglas was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka 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). In the last few years of his life Douglas appeared in films with supernatural stories involving ghosts. Douglas appeared as "Senator Joseph Carmichael" in The Changeling in 1980 and Ghost Story in 1981 in his final completed film role.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1963–1979
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1980
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1964
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1968
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1960
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Melvyn takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 49% low key — the look of the work Melvyn takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 194 frames from Melvyn Douglas's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.