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词条 Paul Douglas (actor)
释义

  1. Early years

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Death

  5. Complete filmography

  6. Radio appearances

  7. References

  8. External links

{{Infobox person
| name = Paul Douglas
| image = Paul Douglas in A Letter to Three Wives trailer.jpg
| caption = in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
| birthname = Paul Douglas Fleischer
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|04|11}}
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|09|11|1907|04|11}}
| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.
| spouse = 1) Elizabeth Farnum
2) Susie Wells
3) Gerri Higgins (1940–1941)
4) Virginia Field (1942−46)
5) Jan Sterling (1950–59)
| children = 4
| yearsactive = 1936−1959
}}

Paul Douglas Fleischer (April 11, 1907 − September 11, 1959) was an American actor.

Early years

Douglas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Margaret (Douglas) and William Paul Fleischer. He attended Yale University and participated in dramatics as a student there.[1]

Career

Douglas worked originally as an announcer for CBS radio station WCAU in Philadelphia, relocating to network headquarters in New York in 1934. Douglas co-hosted CBS's popular swing music program, The Saturday Night Swing Club, from 1936 to 1939.

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 Harry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday.[1]

Douglas began appearing in films in 1949. He may be best remembered for two baseball comedy movies, It Happens Every Spring (1949) and Angels in the Outfield (1951). He also played Richard Widmark's police partner in the 1950 thriller Panic in the Streets, frustrated newlywed Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift (1950), businessman Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite (1954) and a con man-turned-monk in When in Rome (1952). Douglas was host of the 22nd annual Academy Awards in March 1950. Continuing in radio, he was the announcer for The Ed Wynn Show, and the first host of NBC Radio's The Horn & Hardart Children's Hour. In April 1959 Douglas appeared on The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show as Lucy Ricardo's television morning show co-host in the episode "Lucy Wants a Career".

In 1955 he appeared in the play "The Caine Mutiny" but his union placed him on probation for allegedly saying, "The South stinks. It's a land of sowbelly and segregation," which offended southern audiences. Douglas claimed that he was misquoted.[2]

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. Douglas died the day after production of the episode had been completed. He had been in his last stages of illness during filming, and his severe physical state was apparent on film. (The crew incorrectly assumed that his condition was the result of heavy drinking.) The episode – which was a comedy – was deemed unairable. It was, however, resurrected some months later, and Douglas's scenes were re-shot with Jack Warden.

Personal life

Douglas was married five times – to Elizabeth Farnum, Susie Wells, and Gerri Higgins,[3] and to actresses Virginia Field and Jan Sterling.[4]

Douglas and Field had a daughter, Margaret. The couple divorced in 1946.[3] He married Sterling on May 12, 1950.[5] They had a son, Adams, born October 20, 1955.[1]

Death

Paul Douglas died of a heart attack at his home in Hollywood, California on September 11, 1959, at the age of 52.[6] He had just finished filming scenes from a Twilight Zone episode called "The Mighty Casey". As with Angels in the Outfield, he played a manager frustrated by a losing team. Most of his scenes were re-shot with Jack Warden as the manager.

Film director Billy Wilder and his longtime co-writer I. A. L. ('Izzy') Diamond had just offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the 1960 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."

Complete filmography

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  • P's and Cues (1935, Short) - Narrator
  • Calling All Tars (1936, Short) - Semaphore Signalman (uncredited)
  • Margin for Error (1943) - Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)
  • A Letter to Three Wives (1949) - Porter Hollingsway
  • It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Monk Lanigan
  • Everybody Does It (1949) - Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
  • The Big Lift (1950) - Hank Kowalski
  • Love That Brute (1950) - E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley
  • Panic in the Streets (1950) - Capt. Tom Warren
  • Fourteen Hours (1951) - Police Officer Charlie Dunnigan
  • The Guy Who Came Back (1951) - Harry Joplin
  • Rhubarb (1951) - Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
  • Angels in the Outfield (1951) - Aloysius X. 'Guffy' McGovern
  • When in Rome (1952) - Joe Brewster
  • Clash by Night (1952) - Jerry D'Amato
  • We're Not Married! (1952) - Hector C. Woodruff
  • Never Wave at a WAC (1953) - Andrew McBain
  • Forever Female (1953) - E. Harry Phillips
  • Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat (1954, Short) - Commentator
  • Calling Scotland Yard: The Missing Passenger (1954, Short) - Commentator
  • Calling Scotland Yard: The Final Twist (1954, Short) - Commentator
  • Calling Scotland Yard: Present for a Bride (1954, Short) - Commentator
  • Executive Suite (1954) - Josiah Walter Dudley
  • The Maggie (1954) - Calvin B. Marshall - the American
  • Calling Scotland Yard: The Javanese Dagger (1954, Short) - Commentator
  • Calling Scotland Yard: The Sable Scarf (1954, Short) - Commentator
  • Green Fire (1954) - Vic Leonard
  • Joe MacBeth (1955) - Joe MacBeth
  • The Gamma People (1956) - Mike Wilson
  • The Leather Saint (1956) - Gus MacAuliffe
  • The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) - Edward L. McKeever
  • Born Yesterday (1956, TV Movie) = Harry Brock
  • This Could Be the Night (1957) - Rocco
  • Beau James (1957) - Chris Nolan
  • Fortunella (1958) - Professor Golfiero Paganica
  • The Mating Game (1959) - Pop Larkin
{{Div col end}}

Radio appearances

Year Program Episode/source
1951 Suspense Fragile-Content Death[7]
1952 Suspense Mann Alive[8]
1952 Hollywood Star Playhouse Hospital Zone, Quiet[9]
1953 Theatre Guild on the Air The Show-Off[10]

References

1. ^Internet Broadway Database entry
2. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jXpOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jQAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7411%2C4880166 Toledo Blade - Apr 17, 1955]
3. ^{{cite news|title=About Douglas and New Wife|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19500604&id=Vi5WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vuUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6829,2036025&hl=en|accessdate=26 May 2015|agency=The Spokesman-Review|date=June 4, 1950}}
4. ^Katz, Ephraim (1979). The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume. Perigee Books. {{ISBN|0-399-50601-2}}. pp. 355–356.
5. ^{{cite news|title=Actor Paul Douglas Takes Fifth Bride in L.A. Court|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2477573/the_san_bernardino_county_sun/|agency=The San Bernardino County Sun|date=May 13, 1950|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate =May 23, 2015}} {{Open access}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=Paul Douglas, Actor, Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2477398/idaho_state_journal/|agency=Idaho State Journal|date=September 11, 1959|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 23, 2015}} {{Open access}}
7. ^{{cite|title=OTRR_Suspense_Singles Listings Directory| via = archive.org |url=https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Suspense_Singles]]|accessdate = February 20, 2018}} {{Open access}}
8. ^{{cite news|last1=Kirby|first1=Walter|title=Better Radio Programs for the Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2630463/the_decatur_daily_review/|agency=The Decatur Daily Review|date=November 23, 1952|page=48|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 16, 2015}} {{Open access}}
9. ^{{cite news|title=Better Radio Programs for the Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2477300/the_decatur_daily_review/|agency=The Decatur Daily Review|date=March 9, 1952|page=42|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 23, 2015}} {{Open access}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Kirby|first1=Walter|title=Better Radio Programs for the Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2668759/the_decatur_daily_review/|agency=The Decatur Daily Review|date=February 22, 1953|page=40|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 23, 2015}} {{Open access}}

External links

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  • {{IMDb name|7222|Paul Douglas}}
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  • {{Find a Grave|7087142|Paul Douglas}}
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