Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas

Acting 1907-04-11 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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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2009 Panelist
1997 Self (archive footage)
1959 Pop Larkin
1958 Professore Golfiero Paganica
1957 Rocco
1957 Chris Nolan
1957 Paul Douglas
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1957 Vince Polito
1956 Mike Wilson
1956 Edward L. McKeever
1956 Gus MacAuliffe
1956 Sheriff Jonas Sutton
1956 Host
1955 Joe MacBeth
1955 Bill Fleming
1954 Josiah Walter Dudley
1954 Calvin B. Marshall, the American
1954 Vic Leonard
1954 Self - Host
1954 Dr. Merle Gardner
1954 Lieutenant Todd Thoman
1953 Andrew McBain
1953 Harry Phillips
1953 Self
1952 Jerry D'Amato
1952 Hector Woodruff
1952 Joe Brewster
1951 Guffy McGovern
1951 Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan
1951 Harry Joplin
1951 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1951 Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
1951 Harry Brock
1951 Frank Parisi
1950 Capt. Tom Warren
1950 MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski
1950 E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley
1950 Rick Blaine
1949 Monk Lanigan
1949 Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
1948 Porter Hollingsway
1948 Paul Kadsoe
1948 Self
1948 Captain McCaffrey
1946 Narrator
1946
1943 Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)
1939 Self, Narrator
1939 Narrator
1938 Master of Ceremonies