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Known for movies

Short Info

Net Worth	5.3 billion USD
Date Of Birth	March 3, 1938
Died	August 4, 1981, New York City, New York, United States
Spouse	Elisabeth von Essen, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Rosalind Hightower
Mark	He often played smooth characters with a strong sense of humor
Fact	According to the March 31, 1941, issue of Time magazine, Douglas and Edward G. Robinson, who were both Democratic activists, bid $3,200 for the fedora hat that 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' had worn during his three successful campaigns for the presidency. They acquired the hat at a special Hollywood auction to benefit the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Douglas was active in liberal and progressive political causes in the 1930s and 1940s, which led to charges being leveled against him of being a Communist and/or a "fellow traveler" by far-right-wing Republicans during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era of the 1950s. Douglas' wife, Helen Gahagan Douglas, would later be elected to the US House of Representatives as a Democrat from California, but was defeated in her 1950 bid for the U.S. Senate by Republican Congressman Richard Nixon, who derisively called her "The Pink Lady" for what he termed her "leftist" leanings. President John F. Kennedy would appoint her Treasurer of the United States in 1961. When Ronald Reagan was elected US President in 1980, Douglas said that his former friend (who changed from a liberal Democrat to an extremely conservative Republican) had begun to believe the speeches he delivered for General Electric Co. when he was the host of General Electric Theater (1953),an anthology series sponsored by the company for which Reagan, in addition to acting, also did the commercials.

Gustaf Douglas was born on May 12, 1966, in Stockholm, Sweden. His parents were both Swedish nobility; his father, Gustaf Douglas, was a count, and his mother, Ingeborg Douglas, was a baroness. He has two older sisters, Christina and Madeleine. He was educated at the prestigious Wartburg College in Germany, where he studied economics and political science. After college, he worked in the Swedish government as a civil servant. In 1992, he was elected to the Swedish Parliament as a member of the Moderate Party. He served in Parliament for six years, before resigning in 1998 to focus on his business career.

In 2001, Douglas founded the investment firm EQT Partners. The firm has since become one of the largest private equity firms in Europe, with over €40 billion in assets under management. Douglas himself is estimated to be worth over €2 billion. He is a major donor to the Moderate Party and has served on its board of directors since 2004.

Douglas is married to Katarina Douglas, with whom he has three children. The couple resides in Stockholm.

General Info

Full Name	Gustaf Douglas
Net Worth	5.3 billion USD
Date Of Birth	March 3, 1938
Died	August 4, 1981, New York City, New York, United States
Height	1.86 m
Profession	Politician, Actor
Education	Harvard Business School, Upper Canada College
Nationality	Swedish, American

Family

Spouse	Elisabeth von Essen, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Rosalind Hightower
Children	Carl Douglas, Eric Douglas, Melvyn Gregory Hesselberg, Peter Gahagan Douglas, Mary Helen Douglas
Parents	Carl Douglas, Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, Lena Priscilla Hesselberg
Siblings	George Douglas

Accomplishments

Awards	Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Movies	Being There, Ninotchka, Hud, I Never Sang for My Father, The Changeling, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Captains Courageous, The Vampire Bat, The Candidate, Tonight or Never, That Uncertain Feeling, Ghost Story, The Tenant, As You Desire Me, She Married Her Boss, Two-Faced Woman, The Old Dark...
TV Shows	Steve Randall, Frontier Justice, The Arthur Murray Party, Benjamin Franklin, Blind Date

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0002048

Marks

#	Marks / Signs
1	He often played smooth characters with a strong sense of humor

Quotes

#	Quote
1	The Hollywood roles I did were boring: I was soon fed up with them. It's true they gave me a world-wide reputation I could trade on, but they also typed me as a one-dimensional non-serious actor.

Facts

#	Fact
1	He played a Presidential candidate in Gore Vidal's play, and, years later, Vidal (who was not normally very complimentary about actors) remarked that he would have made a fine President in real life.
2	Douglas' father was a Russian-born concert pianist, who taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and encouraged his son to be a musician, but his Kentucky-born mother wanted him to take up law.
3	Is one of 9 actors to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Thomas Mitchell, Paul Scofield, Jack Albertson, Jason Robards, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, Geoffrey Rush and Christopher Plummer.
4	Brother of George Douglas.
5	He had six grandchildren when he died.
6	Two grandsons from son Gregory, named Stefan and Erik.
7	Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 240-242. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
8	According to the March 31, 1941, issue of Time magazine, Douglas and Edward G. Robinson, who were both Democratic activists, bid $3,200 for the fedora hat that 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' had worn during his three successful campaigns for the presidency. They acquired the hat at a special Hollywood auction to benefit the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Douglas was active in liberal and progressive political causes in the 1930s and 1940s, which led to charges being leveled against him of being a Communist and/or a "fellow traveler" by far-right-wing Republicans during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era of the 1950s. Douglas' wife, Helen Gahagan Douglas, would later be elected to the US House of Representatives as a Democrat from California, but was defeated in her 1950 bid for the U.S. Senate by Republican Congressman Richard Nixon, who derisively called her "The Pink Lady" for what he termed her "leftist" leanings. President John F. Kennedy would appoint her Treasurer of the United States in 1961. When Ronald Reagan was elected US President in 1980, Douglas said that his former friend (who changed from a liberal Democrat to an extremely conservative Republican) had begun to believe the speeches he delivered for General Electric Co. when he was the host of General Electric Theater (1953),an anthology series sponsored by the company for which Reagan, in addition to acting, also did the commercials.
9	Won Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "The Best Man."
10	He had two children with second wife, Helen Gahagan: a son named Peter (b. 1933) and daughter Mary Helen (b. 1938). He had one son with his first wife, Rosalind, named Melvyn Gregory Hesselberg (b. January 28, 1926).
11	Grandfather of Illeana Douglas.
12	In 1967, he became the fifth performer to win the triple crown of acting. Oscar: Best Supporting Actor, Hud (1963) & Best Supporting Actor, Being There (1979), Tony: Best Actor-Play, The Best Man (1960), and Emmy: Best Actor-Drama, CBS Playhouse: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967) .

Pictures

All pictures

Movies

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
That Certain Age	1938		Vincent Bullitt
Fast Company	1938		Joel Sloane
The Toy Wife	1938		George Sartoris
There's Always a Woman	1938		William 'Bill' Reardon
Arsène Lupin Returns	1938		Rene Farrand
I'll Take Romance	1937		James Guthrie
Angel	1937		Anthony 'Tony' Halton
I Met Him in Paris	1937		George Potter
Captains Courageous	1937		Mr. Cheyne
Women of Glamour	1937		Richard 'Dick' Stark
Theodora Goes Wild	1936		Michael Grant
The Gorgeous Hussy	1936		John Randolph
And So They Were Married	1936		Stephen Blake
The Lone Wolf Returns	1935		Michael Lanyard
Annie Oakley	1935		Jeff Hogarth
Mary Burns, Fugitive	1935		Barton Powell
She Married Her Boss	1935		Richard Barclay
The People's Enemy	1935		George R. 'Traps' Stuart
Woman in the Dark	1934		Tony Robson
Dangerous Corner	1934		Charles
Counsellor at Law	1933		Roy Darwin
Nagana	1933		Dr. Walter Tradnor
The Vampire Bat	1933		Karl Brettschneider
The Old Dark House	1932		Penderel
As You Desire Me	1932		Count Bruno Varelli
The Broken Wing	1932		Philip 'Phil' Marvin
The Wiser Sex	1932		David Rolfe
Prestige	1932		Capt. Andre Verlaine
Tonight or Never	1931		Jim Fletcher
Ghost Story	1981		John Jaffrey
The Hot Touch	1981		Max Reich
Tell Me a Riddle	1980		David
The Changeling	1980		Senator Carmichael
Being There	1979		Benjamin Rand
The Seduction of Joe Tynan	1979		Senator Birney
Intimate Strangers	1977	TV Movie	Donald's Father
ABC Weekend Specials	1977	TV Series	Grandpa Doc
Twilight's Last Gleaming	1977		Zachariah Guthrie
The Tenant	1976		Monsieur Zy
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin	1974-1975	TV Mini-Series	Benjamin Franklin
Murder or Mercy	1974	TV Movie	Dr. Paul Harelson - accused of his terminally-ill wife mercy killing
The Death Squad	1974	TV Movie	Police Captain Earl Kreski
The Going Up of David Lev	1973	TV Movie	Grandfather
Circle of Fear	1972	TV Series	Grandpa
The Candidate	1972		John J. McKay
Two Is a Happy Number	1972		Joseph Provo
Death Takes a Holiday	1971	TV Movie	Judge Earl Chapman
NET Playhouse	1971	TV Series
I Never Sang for My Father	1970		Tom Garrison
Hunters Are for Killing	1970	TV Movie	Keller Floran
The Choice	1969	TV Movie
Companions in Nightmare	1968	TV Movie	Dr. Lawrence Strelson - a psychiatrist
CBS Playhouse	1967	TV Series	Peter Schermann
The Crucible	1967	TV Movie	Governor Danforth
Hotel	1967		Warren Trent
Lamp at Midnight	1966	TV Movie	Galileo Galilei
The Fugitive	1966	TV Series	Dr. Mark Ryder
Inherit the Wind	1965	TV Movie	Henry Drummond
Once Upon a Tractor	1965	Short	Martin
Rapture	1965		Frederick Larbaud
The Americanization of Emily	1964		Adm. William Jessup
Advance to the Rear	1964		Col. Claude Brackenbury
A Very Close Family	1964	TV Movie	Father
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	1963	TV Series	Pat Konke
Kraft Mystery Theater	1963	TV Series
Hud	1963		Homer Bannon
Ben Casey	1963	TV Series	Burton Strang
Billy Budd	1962		The Dansker - Sailmaker
Sunday Showcase	1960	TV Series	Mark Twain
Frontier Justice	1959	TV Series	Host
Playhouse 90	1957-1959	TV Series	Gen. Parker / Ansel Gibbs / Stalin / ...
The United States Steel Hour	1957-1958	TV Series	Dr. Victor Payson / Census Taker / Narrator
General Electric Theater	1957	TV Series	Professor Barris
Goodyear Playhouse	1957	TV Series	Ira Sterling
The Alcoa Hour	1955-1956	TV Series	Jim Conway / Charles Turner
Kraft Theatre	1955	TV Series
Windows	1955	TV Series
The Ford Television Theatre	1955	TV Series	George Manners
Steve Randall	1952	TV Series	Steve Randall
Lights Out	1952	TV Series
Studio One in Hollywood	1952	TV Series	Stefan
Celanese Theatre	1952	TV Series	Archduke Rudolph von Hapsburg
On the Loose	1951		Frank Bradley
My Forbidden Past	1951		Paul Beaurevel
Starlight Theatre	1951	TV Series
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse	1950	TV Series	Martin Luther Cooper / Eugene Morgan
Lux Video Theatre	1950	TV Series	James Strickland
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse	1949	TV Series	Richard Gordon
The Great Sinner	1949		Armand de Glasse
My Own True Love	1949		Clive Heath
A Woman's Secret	1949		Luke Jordan
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	1948		Bill Cole
The Guilt of Janet Ames	1947		Smithfield 'Smitty' Cobb
The Sea of Grass	1947		Brice Chamberlain
Three Hearts for Julia	1943		Jeff Seabrook
They All Kissed the Bride	1942		Michael 'Mike' Holmes
We Were Dancing	1942		Nicholas Eugen August Wolfgang 'Nikki' Prax, aka Mr. Manescu
Two-Faced Woman	1941		Larry Blake
Our Wife	1941		Jerome 'Jerry' Marvin
A Woman's Face	1941		Dr. Gustaf Segert
That Uncertain Feeling	1941		Larry Baker
This Thing Called Love	1940		Tice Collins
Third Finger, Left Hand	1940		Jeff Thompson
He Stayed for Breakfast	1940		Paul Boliet
Too Many Husbands	1940		Henry Lowndes
The Amazing Mr. Williams	1939		Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams
Ninotchka	1939		Count Leon d'Algout
Good Girls Go to Paris	1939		Ronald Brooke
Tell No Tales	1939		Michael Cassidy
There's That Woman Again	1938		William 'Bill' Reardon
The Shining Hour	1938		Henry Linden

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
We Were Dancing	1942	"The Wedding March" 1843, uncredited
Third Finger, Left Hand	1940	performer: "The Riddle" 1940 - uncredited
Arsène Lupin Returns	1938	performer: "Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major Opus 9" 1830-1 - uncredited
Angel	1937	performer: "Angel" 1937
Theodora Goes Wild	1936	"Pop! Goes the Weasel", "The Farmer in the Dell", "Be Still My Heart" 1936, uncredited / performer: "The Last Round-Up Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along" 1933, "Three Blind Mice" - uncredited
And So They Were Married	1936	performer: "In the Gloaming" 1877 - uncredited
The Old Dark House	1932	"Oh! Mr. Porter", "Here Comes the Bride", uncredited / performer: "Singin' in the Rain" 1929 - uncredited

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Man You Loved to Hate	1979	Documentary special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1980	TV Special	Himself
The 43rd Annual Academy Awards	1971	TV Special	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Lillian Gish
The David Frost Show	1970	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Dick Cavett Show	1968-1970	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Project XX	1969	TV Series documentary	Narrator
The Ed Sullivan Show	1955-1968	TV Series	Spofford / Griffith P. Hastings / Himself
The 17th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1965	TV Special	Himself - Accepting Emmy Award for Alfred Lunt
Gala Adlai on Broadway	1960	TV Movie	Himself - Performer
Land of Promise	1960	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Narrator
The 14th Annual Tony Awards	1960	TV Special	Himself - Winner: Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
The Garry Moore Show	1958	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Playhouse 90	1958	TV Series	Himself - Host
The Arthur Murray Party	1953-1957	TV Series	Himself
What's My Line?	1951-1957	TV Series	Himself - Guest Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest
I've Got a Secret	1952	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Name's the Same	1952	TV Series	Himself - Contestant
Your Show of Shows	1950	TV Series	Himself - Guest Performer
Your Big Moment	1949	TV Series	Host
The Cavalcade of Academy Awards from 1928-1939	1940	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1	1939	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8	1939	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4	1938	Documentary short	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington	2012	TV Movie documentary	John J. McKay
Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War	2011	TV Series documentary	Leon
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss	2010	TV Mini-Series documentary	Roger Penderel
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness	2009	TV Series documentary	Penderel
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence	2008	TV Series	Homer Bannon
How the West Was Lost	2008	TV Movie documentary	Homer Bannon (uncredited)
The Naked Archaeologist	2008	TV Series documentary	Brettschneider
Billy Wilder Speaks	2006	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Garbo	2005	Documentary	Count Leon d'Algout (uncredited)
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream	1998	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	1988	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Actor Testing as Ashley
Horrible Horror	1986	Video	Karl Brettschneider
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter	1982	TV Movie documentary	Actor - 'Being There' (uncredited)
That's Entertainment, Part II	1976	Documentary	Leon
Hollywood: The Selznick Years	1969	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy	1964	Documentary	Leon
MGM Parade	1956	TV Series	Leon / Mr. Cheyne
The Cinematographer	1951	Documentary short	Himself - film clip (uncredited)
From the Ends of the Earth	1939	Documentary short	Himself

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1980	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Being There (1979)
1980	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture	Being There (1979)
1979	LAFCA Award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Being There (1979)
1979	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Being There (1979)
1968	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama	CBS Playhouse (1967)
1964	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Male Supporting Performance	Hud (1963)
1964	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Hud (1963)
1963	NBR Award	National Board of Review, USA	Best Supporting Actor	Hud (1963)
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 6423 Hollywood Blvd.
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Television	Awarded February 8, 1960 at 6601 Hollywood Blvd.

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1981	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Supporting Actor	The Changeling (1980)
1971	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actor in a Leading Role	I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
1971	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama	I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
1971	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Best Dramatic Performance, Male	I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
1966	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama	Inherit the Wind (1965)
1965	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Supporting Performance, Male	The Americanization of Emily (1964)
1964	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Supporting Actor	Hud (1963)

2^nd Place Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1980	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Supporting Actor	Being There (1979)
1970	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actor	I Never Sang for My Father (1970)