Paul Douglas

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-04-11 (52 years old)

Deathday

1959-09-11

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paul Douglas

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...

Acting

1952

Clash by Night

as Jerry D'Amato

1952

We're Not Married!

as Hector Woodruff

1950

Panic in the Streets

as Capt. Tom Warren

1938

Saturday Night Swing Club

as Master of Ceremonies

1956

The Gamma People

as Mike Wilson

1954

Executive Suite

as Josiah Walter Dudley

1959

The Mating Game

as Pop Larkin

1950

The Big Lift

as MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski

1949

A Letter to Three Wives

as Porter Hollingsway

1951

Angels in the Outfield

as Guffy McGovern

1954

The 'Maggie'

as Calvin B. Marshall, the American

1954

Green Fire

as Vic Leonard

1951

Fourteen Hours

as Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan

1955

Joe Macbeth

as Joe MacBeth

1956

The Solid Gold Cadillac

as Edward L. McKeever

1949

1957

Beau James

as Chris Nolan

1953

Never Wave at a WAC

as Andrew McBain

1950

Love That Brute

as E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley

1953

Forever Female

as Harry Phillips

1956

The Leather Saint

as Gus MacAuliffe

1952

When in Rome

as Joe Brewster

1949

Everybody Does It

as Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett

1951

The Guy Who Came Back

as Harry Joplin

1997

1958

Fortunella

as Professore Golfiero Paganica

1951

The Screen Director

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1943

Margin for Error

as Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)

1951

Rhubarb

as Man on Park Bench (uncredited)

1939

Filming the Fleet

as Self, Narrator

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