Melvyn Douglas mb-code 42-34622890 'Self portrait at the age

'Self portrait at the age of thirteen'

beating rival inventor Elisha Gray

Erasmus was probably the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance

Town of Diano opposite'

(18th century)

Melvyn Douglas mb-code 42-34622890 'Self portrait at the ageMelvyn Douglas (1901 1981), American actor, c1930s c1940s. Born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, Douglas often played the suave sophisticate in pursuit of a beautiful woman, as in Ernst Lubitsch's classic Ninotchka (1939) opposite Greta Garbo. He began appearing in supporting roles in the early 1960s and won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars for his roles in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979).