Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 - September 24, 1976) was an American politician and University of Chicago economist. He served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1949 to 1967.

Paul Douglas (April 11, 1907 - September 11, 1959) was an American movie actor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The 5'11" actor is best remembered by some 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 thriller Panic in the Streets, Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives, Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift, Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite, Joe Brewster, and the con man turned monk in When in Rome. In 1950, Douglas was the host of the 22nd Annual Academy Awards.

Douglas was cast in the 1959 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, but Douglas died the same week the episode was to be filmed. His role was taken over by Jack Warden.

He was married five times, last to actress Jan Sterling from 1950 until his death, by whom he had a son, Adams Douglas (1955-2003).

Paul Douglas died on September 11, 1959 of a heart attack in Hollywood, California at the age of 52. Film director Billy Wilder and co-writer I.A.L. ('Izzy') Diamond had just offered him the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the movie The Apartment. Billy Wilder told about this: "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."

Paul Douglas (born June 12, 1958) (given name, Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer) is a meteorologist for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis-St.Paul. He has also written a daily weather column for the Star Tribune since 1997 and does forecasts for three local radio stations and a reporter for the Twin Cities Public Television show Almanac.

He founded EarthWatch Communications in 1990, which created weather visualizations for the films Jurassic Park and Twister. He also co-founded blank">Digital Cyclone in 1998. The company creates weather applications and supplies content for wireless devices under the My-Cast brand name.

Douglas worked at _KARE-TV (formerly WTCN-TV) in Minneapolis-St. Paul from 1983 to 1994 . During this time, he developed a popular on-air chemistry with principal anchor Paul Magers.

Douglas moved to Chicago's WBBM-TV from 1994-1997, in an unsuccessful stint, where he was infamously nicknamed "the goof on the roof". He moved back to the Twin Cites in 1997 and began writing for the StarTribune (replacing the KARE-TV weatherman Ken Barlow). He joined WCCO-TV in 1998, after his non-compete clause with KARE-TV expired.

Douglas has authored two books, Prairie Skies (1991) and Restless Skies (2004) and made a cameo appearance in the movie Twister as himself.

Paul Douglas (1958 – May 29, 2006) was a British CBS News cameraman, who, along with soundman James Brolan, was killed in an explosion in Iraq on May 29, 2006. CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was critically injured in the attack. The three were reporting with the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division.

Douglas was based in London and had worked with CBS since the early 1990s. Prior to that, he worked for ITV.

Daughter: Margaret Field Douglas (1945)

Son: Adams Douglas (1955 - 2003)

He was cast in "Twilight Zone, The" (1959) episode "The Mighty Casey" to play the baseball team manager, a role specifically written for him by Rod Serling, based on his character in Angels in the Outfield (1951). Unfortunately, he died the week the episode was filmed and was replaced by Jack Warden, when refilming became necessary. Interestingly, the script seems not to have been changed as there are several lines that seem to evoke Douglas' manager character. Even Warden seems to be trying to play the character as Douglas would.

Billy Wilder, while writing the script of Apartment, The (1960) with his collaborator I.A.L. Diamond, intended the part of Jeff D. Sheldrake to be played by Douglas in the film. Douglas was cast in the role, but unfortunately, passed away before shooting began. Wilder then re-cast the role of the caddish Mr. Sheldrake with Fred MacMurray, who had successfully played against type in Double Indemnity (1944).

He turned down the chance to play the part of Harry Brock in Born Yesterday (1950), the successful movie adaptation of the stage play in which he created this role. He found the part had been considerably reduced for the film. The Harry Brock role went to Broderick Crawford.