Paul Douglas (actor)

Paul Douglas ( born April 11, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † September 11, 1959 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film actor.

Life

Paul Douglas was football player at the Frankford Yellow Jackets before he started his acting career in regional theater stages. In the 1930s he worked as a sports reporter, and later as a newscaster and presenter, including Glenn Miller in his last appearances in 1944 and at the Academy Awards 1950.

Douglas played a long time on the side of the Judy Holliday Harry Brock in the Broadway play Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin, which has not been made ​​into a film in 1950 with Broderick Crawford in the male lead role under the German title This is from yesterday. After more than 1,000 performances at the theater, he turned - apart from a small early role in Calling All Tars - 1949 his first film A Letter to Three Wives. In the 1950s he joined the baseball movie It Happens Every Spring and Angels in the Outfield, as well as a second time along with Judy Holliday in The Solid Gold Cadillac. He also had roles on the side of Grace Kelly in the movies Fourteen hours and green fire.

Douglas died in 1959 of a heart attack shortly after the film director Billy Wilder had offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the apartment.

He was married five times, most recently by two actresses. From Virginia Field, with whom he has a daughter, whom he divorced in 1946, four years after the wedding. With Jan Sterling, he was married from 1950 until his death, from this relationship went a son.

Miscellaneous

During the filming of the episode Baseball with Heart ( The Mighty Casey ) of the television series The Twilight Zone Douglas died. Despite the lack of formal evidence for a disease he was already severely emaciated at this time. The recordings were then repeated with Jack Warden in the role of team manager.

His last wife January Sterling is a direct descendant of former U.S. President John Adams and John Quincy Adams. In her honor, their son was given the name Adams.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

• International Film Festival of Venice 1954: Special Jury Prize for The schemers
• Hollywood Walk of Fame: two stars in the categories of Film and Television