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The Mating Game

as Pop Larkin

1959
The Gamma People

as Mike Wilson

1956
The Solid Gold Cadillac

as Edward L. McKeever

1956
Executive Suite

as Josiah Walter Dudley

1954
The 'Maggie'

as Calvin B. Marshall, the American

1954
Green Fire

as Vic Leonard

1954
Never Wave at a WAC

as Andrew McBain

1953
Forever Female

as Harry Phillips

1953
Clash by Night

as Jerry D'Amato

1952
We're Not Married!

as Hector Woodruff

1952
Angels in the Outfield

as Guffy McGovern

1951
Fourteen Hours

as Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan

1951
The Screen Director

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1951
Panic in the Streets

as Capt. Tom Warren

1950
Love That Brute

as E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley

1950
A Letter to Three Wives

as Porter Hollingsway

1949
It Happens Every Spring

as Monk Lanigan

1949
Paul Douglas Paul Douglas

Birthday

1907-04-11

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Biography

Paul Douglas (April 11, 1907 – September 11, 1959) was an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Paul Douglas Fleischer, Douglas began his career as a stage actor. He made his Broadway debut in 1936 as the Radio Announcer in Doty Hobart and Tom McKnight's Double Dummy at the John Golden Theatre. In 1946 he won both a Theatre World Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Herry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. Douglas began appearing in films in 1949. He may be best-remembered for two baseball comedy movies, Angels in the Outfield (1951) and It Happens Every Spring (1949). He also played Richard Widmark's police partner in the thriller Panic in the Streets, frustrated newlywed Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives, Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift, businessman Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite and a con man turned monk in When in Rome. In 1950, Douglas was host of the 22nd annual Academy Awards. Douglas also worked on radio as the announcer for The Ed Wynn Show and he was the first host of NBC Radio's "Horn & Hardart Children's Hour!". In April 1959 Douglas appeared as Lucy Ricardo's television morning show boss in the "Lucy Wants a Career" episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Douglas was originally cast in the 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Mighty Casey", a role written for him by Rod Serling, based on his character in Angels in the Outfield, but Douglas died the same week after production of the episode had been completed. His role was taken over by Jack Warden, and most of the episode was refilmed several months later. He was married five times, last to actress Jan Sterling from 1950 until his death. They had a son, Adams Douglas (1955–2003). Paul Douglas died on September 11, 1959 of a heart attack in Hollywood, California at the age of 52. Film director Billy Wilder and co-writer I.A.L. ('Izzy') Diamond had just offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the movie The Apartment that went to Fred MacMurray instead. Wilder later said: "I saw him and his wife, Jan Sterling, at a restaurant, and I realized he was perfect, and I asked him right there in the parking lot. About two days before we were to start, he had a heart attack and died. Iz and I were shattered." Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Douglas,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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