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Paul Douglas

Highest Rated: 100% Executive Suite (1954)

Lowest Rated: 40% We're Not Married (1952)

Birthday: Apr 11, 1907

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

With his husky build and gruff delivery, actor Paul Douglas was an unlikely choice for a leading man in 1950s Hollywood. A one-time professional footballer and radio sports commentator, Douglas began his acting career on the Broadway stage, earning rave reviews for his performance as tycoon Harry Brock in the original 1946 production of Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday." He quickly made the transition to feature films in 1949, appearing as the pragmatic Porter Hollingsway in director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty social comedy "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949). But Douglas found his true niche in baseball films, and drew upon its explosive personalities to essay loud-mouthed yet ultimately good-natured characters such as catcher Monk Lanigan (1949's "It Happens Every Spring") and manager "Guffy" McGovern (1951's "Angels in the Outfield"). While he continued to be a popular draw for moviegoers well into the 1950s, Douglas made his biggest impact on television later in his career, with memorable guest appearances on programs like "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," among others. On September 11, 1959, just days after being cast as Jeff Sheldrake on director Billy Wilder's classic 1960 comedy "The Apartment," Paul Douglas died of a heart attack. Douglas's part ultimately went to actor Fred MacMurray.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 86% A Letter to Three Wives
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100% 73% The Solid Gold Cadillac
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100% 75% Executive Suite
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97% 77% Panic in the Streets
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88% 65% It Happens Every Spring
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83% 65% Angels in the Outfield
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80% 65% The Maggie
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63% 72% Fourteen Hours
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63% 69% Clash by Night
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40% 50% We're Not Married
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Filmography

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Broken 2013 Deputy Marshal Hobbs Actor The Mating Game 54% 1959 Sidney "Pop" Larkin Actor This Could Be the Night 46% 1957 Rocco Actor Beau James 1957 Chris Nolan Actor The Gamma People 6% 1956 Mike Wilson Actor The Solid Gold Cadillac 100% 73% 1956 Edward L. McKeever Actor The Leather Saint 1956 Gus MacAuliffe Actor Joe MacBeth 12% 1956 Joe MacBeth Actor Born Yesterday 1956 Harry Brock Actor The Maggie 80% 65% 1954 Calvin B Marshall Actor Executive Suite 100% 75% 1954 Josiah Walter Dudley Actor Green Fire 21% 1954 Vic Leonard Actor Forever Female 17% 1953 E. Harry Phillips Actor Clash by Night 63% 69% 1952 Jerry D'Amato Actor Never Wave at a WAC 38% 1952 Andrew McBain Actor We're Not Married 40% 50% 1952 Hector C. Woodruff Actor When in Rome 1952 Joe Brewster Actor Angels in the Outfield 83% 65% 1951 Aloysius X. "Guffy" McGovern Actor Fourteen Hours 63% 72% 1951 Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan Actor The Guy Who Came Back 1951 Harry Joplin Actor Love That Brute 1950 E.L. "Big Ed" Hanley Actor Panic in the Streets 97% 77% 1950 Capt. Tom Warren Actor The Big Lift 46% 1950 MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski Actor You Can Change the World 1950 Self Everybody Does It 1949 Leonard Borland Actor
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