Paul Douglas
Gender: Male
Born: 11th April 1907
Died: 11th September 1959
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Movies: A Letter to Three Wives, Clash by Night, Panic in the Streets, Fourteen Hours, The Big Lift, Angels in the Outfield, The Maggie, Green Fire, This Could Be the Night, Executive Suite, The Solid Gold Cadillac, We're Not Married!, Love That Brute, The Leather Saint, Forever Female, Fortunella, Everybody Does It, The Mating Game, When in Rome, It Happens Every Spring, The Gamma People
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 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. He also worked on radio as the announcer for The Ed Wynn Show, and he was the first host of NBC Radio's The Horn & Hardart Children's Hour. In April 1959 Douglas appeared in The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour as
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