Born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg in Macon, Georgia to a concert-pianist father and a Mayflower-descendant mother, he trained in Shakespearean repertory and stock companies across the Midwest before launching a film career in the late 1920s. He quickly became known as a suave leading man, starring opposite Greta Garbo in Ninotchka (1939) and appearing with Joan Crawford in A Woman’s Face, while also… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for The Tenant 1976 Being There 1979 The Changeling 1980 Ninotchka 1939 ★ 7.4 Captains Courageous 1937
Frank Burton Cheyne ★ 7.3 Billy Budd 1962
The Dansker, Sailmaker ★ 7.1 Rapture 1965
Frederick Larbaud ★ 7 The Changeling 1980
Senator Carmichael ★ 7 That's Entertainment, Part II 1976
(archive footage) ★ 7 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948
Bill Cole ★ 6.8 The Great Sinner 1949
Armand De Glasse ★ 6.8 A Woman's Face 1941
Dr. Gustaf Segert ★ 6.7 I Never Sang for My Father 1970
Tom Garrison ★ 6.7 The Americanization of Emily 1964
Admiral William Jessup ★ 6.7 The Shining Hour 1938
Henry Linden ★ 6.7 Angel 1937
Anthony 'Tony' Halton ★ 6.6 That Uncertain Feeling 1941
Larry Baker ★ 6.6 Theodora Goes Wild 1936
Michael Grant ★ 6.5 Twilight's Last Gleaming 1977
Zachariah Guthrie ★ 6.5 The Candidate 1972
John J. McKay ★ 6.5 Too Many Husbands 1940
Henry Lowndes ★ 6.5 Annie Oakley 1935
Jeff Hogarth ★ 6.5 Counsellor at Law 1933
Roy Darwin ★ 6.4 Two-Faced Woman 1941
Lawrence 'Larry' Blake ★ 6.1 Hotel 1967
Warren Trent ★ 6.1 The Sea of Grass 1947
Brice Chamberlain ★ 6.1 Woman in the Dark 1934
Tony Robson ★ 6 Ghost Story 1981
John Jaffrey ★ 6 There's Always a Woman 1938
William H. Reardon ★ 5.9 The Seduction of Joe Tynan 1979
Senator Birney ★ 5.6 A Woman's Secret 1949
Luke Jordan ★ 5.5 My Forbidden Past 1951
Paul Beaurevel ★ 5.5 The Vampire Bat 1933
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