Paul Douglas (actor)
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.
Filmography (selection)
- 1935: Calling All Tars
- 1949: A Letter to Three Wives (A Letter to Three Wives)
- 1949: It Happens Every Spring
- 1949: If My Wife Only Knew (Everybody Does It)
- 1950: It started with a kiss (The Big Lift)
- 1950: Love That Brute
- 1950: Under secret orders (Panic in the Streets)
- 1951: Fourteen Hours (Fourteen Hours)
- 1951: Angels in the Outfield
- 1952: When in Rome
- 1952: Before the New Day (Clash by Night)
- 1952: We're Not Married (We're Not Married!)
- 1953: A Woman's Spicy Years (Forever Female)
- 1954: Oller Kahn with megalomania (The Maggie)
- 1954: The Intriguers (Executive Suite)
- 1954: Green Fire (Green Fire)
- 1955: Legion of Hell (Joe MacBeth)
- 1956: Decision Day (The Leather Saint)
- 1956: The woman in golden Cadillac (The Solid Gold Cadillac)
- 1957: No place for fine women (This Could Be the Night)
- 1957: Beau James
- 1958: Fortunella
- 1959: Angels among sinners (The Mating Game)
Awards
- 1946: Clarence Derwent Award for Born Yesterday
- 1954: Venice International Film Festival Special Jury Prize for The Intriguers
- Hollywood Walk of Fame : two stars in the film and television categories
Web links
- Paul Douglas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paul Douglas in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Paul Douglas in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Paul Douglas in the database of Find a Grave (English)
personal data | |
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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 |