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Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas

Oyuncu · 1907 – 1959 · 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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  • Film7.3

    Fourteen Hours

    1951 · 53 votes

  • Film7.0

    Angels in the Outfield

    1951 · 31 votes

  • Film7.2

    A Letter to Three Wives

    Üç Kadına Bir Mektup

    1949 · 180 votes

  • Film6.0

    We're Not Married!

    Evli Değiliz

    1952 · 30 votes

  • Film6.9

    Panic in the Streets

    1950 · 171 votes

  • Film7.0

    Executive Suite

    1954 · 64 votes

  • Film6.1

    This Could Be the Night

    1957 · 14 votes

  • Film6.3

    The Solid Gold Cadillac

    1956 · 38 votes

  • Film6.4

    The Mating Game

    1959 · 16 votes

  • Film6.7

    Clash by Night

    1952 · 139 votes

  • Film6.6

    It Happens Every Spring

    1949 · 25 votes

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  • Film5.0

    Never Wave at a WAC

    Kadın Asker

    1953 · 15 votes

  • Film6.9

    The Big Lift

    1950 · 28 votes

  • Film6.3

    Green Fire

    Yeşil Ateş

    1954 · 30 votes

  • Film5.2

    The Gamma People

    1956 · 24 votes

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  • Film5.4

    Beau James

    1957 · 5 votes

  • Film6.3

    Margin for Error

    1943 · 7 votes

  • Film6.2

    The Guy Who Came Back

    1951 · 4 votes

  • Film6.3

    The 'Maggie'

    1954 · 40 votes

  • Film6.9

    Forever Female

    1953 · 18 votes

  • Film8.0

    The Leather Saint

    1956 · 1 votes

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  • Dizi7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • Dizi3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • Dizi5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

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  • Dizi6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • Dizi6.9

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    1950 · 13 votes

  • Dizi6.4
  • Dizi7.1

    The Oscars

    1953 · 85 votes

  • Dizi7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Sunar

    1955 · 268 votes

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  • Dizi7.2

    Your Show of Shows

    1950 · 4 votes

  • Dizi6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • Dizi6.2

    Suspicion

    1957 · 9 votes

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  • Dizi6.2

    Playwrights '56

    1955 · 4 votes

  • Dizi8.8

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

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  • Dizi6.0

    Hour Glass

    1946 · 2 votes

  • Dizi9.0

    Adventure Theater

    1956 · 1 votes