Melvyn Douglas
2 credits on HibingeTV
American actor. He played police chief Karl Brettschneider in The Vampire Bat (1933). A versatile performer, he moved between romantic leads in the 1930s and serious character roles later in life, winning Academy Awards for Hud (1963) and Being There (1979). He died in 1981.
Acted In
Comedy, Romance
A bored wife of an insurance salesman seeks psychoanalysis for her mysterious neuroses, only to find herself entangled with an eccentric pianist and demanding a divorce. Ernst Lubitsch's remake of his own silent film Kiss Me Again, starring Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, and Burgess Meredith. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Comedy · Romance
That Uncertain Feeling
1941 - as Larry Baker
Horror
When corpses drained of blood begin appearing in a small European village, the townspeople suspect a vampire. The local police chief doubts it, but the village doctor insists the supernatural is real, and suspicion falls on a simple-minded young man who keeps bats as pets. The Vampire Bat is an early sound horror film made to cash in on the success of Dracula and Frankenstein, and it borrows freely from both. It stars Lionel Atwill as the doctor, Fay Wray as his assistant, Melvyn Douglas as the skeptical policeman, and Dwight Frye, fresh off Renfield in Dracula, as the accused simpleton. The film is in the public domain because it was published without a proper copyright notice.
Horror
The Vampire Bat
1933 - as Karl Brettschneider