Paul Douglas (actor)

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Paul Douglas (born April 11, 1907 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † September 11, 1959 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film and stage actor .

Life

Paul Douglas was a football player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets before starting his acting career on regional theater stages. In the 1930s he worked as a sports reporter , later also as a news anchor and presenter , including for Glenn Miller in his last appearances in 1944 and at the 1950 Academy Awards .

Douglas played a long time on the side of Judy Holliday to Harry Brock in Broadway -Stück Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin , which in 1950 with Broderick Crawford in the male lead role under the German title Born Yesterday was filmed. After more than 1,000 theater appearances - apart from an early small role in Calling All Tars - he made his first film A Letter to Three Wives in 1949 . He became known to the German public through his role as Sgt. Hank Kowalski in the film about the Berlin Airlift It began with a kiss next to Montgomery Clift . The film was shot on original locations in Berlin in 1949/1950. In the 1950s, he appeared in the baseball films It Happens Every Spring and Angels in the Outfield and once again with Judy Holliday in The Solid Gold Cadillac . He also had roles with Grace Kelly in the films Fourteen Hours and Green Fire .

Douglas died of a heart attack in 1959 , shortly after film director Billy Wilder offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in The Apartment .

He was married a total of five times, most recently with two actresses. He divorced Virginia Field , with whom he has a daughter, four years after the wedding in 1946. He was married to Jan Sterling from 1950 until his death, and this relationship resulted in a son.

Miscellaneous

During the filming of the episode Baseball with heart ( The Mighty Casey ) the television series The Twilight Zone died Douglas. Despite the lack of official evidence of an illness, by this time he was already very emaciated. The recordings were then repeated with Jack Warden in the role of team manager.

His last wife, Jan Sterling, is a direct descendant of former US Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams . In their honor, their son was given the first name Adam.

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SURNAME Douglas, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, USA
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1959
Place of death Hollywood , California, USA