5 Best Melvyn Douglas Movies

Looking for the 5 best Melvyn Douglas movies? It's hard to nail down five of the best Melvyn Douglas movies because he was featured in almost one hundred full length films. He was a smooth actor and could play many different characters and still be recognized as one of the best actors in movies and on television. Douglas had a lengthy career spanning 50 years and around 100 big screen movies and television specials. With his amazing credentials and two Academy Awards, Melvyn Douglas will be remembered as a pioneer of the big screen movie.

1. "Ghost Story" This 1981 tale features Melvyn Douglas and a supporting cast of leading men such as Fred Astaire and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., along with John Housemen. The premise is four old men get together in a house to tell scary stories to one another. One story turns into truth as a woman who was mistakenly left for dead returns for revenge. This movie was a little different than most Melvyn Douglas features and that is why it is one of the 5 best Melvyn Douglas movies that was released.
2. "Hud" This was the role that won Melvyn Douglas one of his two Oscars. Douglas played Homer Bannon in this 1963 movie alongside Paul Newman's lead character Hud, a modern selfish cowboy. Douglas won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in this film. This is one of the 5 best Melvyn Douglas movies and one of his most popular.
3. "Being There" In 1979, Melvyn Douglas starred in and won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in "Being There." Douglas portrays Ben Rand, a dying business leader and political king-maker who is terminally ill. Douglas' brilliant acting makes this hit one of his 5 best movies.
4. "The Tenant" This creepy film debuted in 1976 and stars Melvyn Douglas as Monsieur Zy, a tenant who rents an apartment right after the former tenant commits suicide, and the landlord, Roman Polanski, who also directed, wants Monsieur Zy to do the same. Set in France, this bizarre film shows the range of acting Douglas can reach as it has become one of the best movies in his amazing career.
5. "Tell Me a Riddle" This 1980 movie is about rekindled love. David (Douglas) and Jeannie (Brooke Adams), who have been married for 40 years, travel to San Francisco, California, to visit their grandchildren and fall in love with one another all over again. This was one of the last movies Douglas starred in but it was one of the best movies he ever made.