John Houseman (September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase for which he won a best supporting actor Oscar. He reprised his role as Kingsfield in the subsequent TV series adaptation of The Paper Chase. Houseman was also known for his commercials for the brokerage firm Smith Barney. He had a distinctive Mid-Atlantic English accent, in common with many actors of his generation.
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John Houseman Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Houseman |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bucharest, Romania |
| Date of Birth | 1902-09-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 86 |
| Deathday | 1988-10-31 |
John Houseman Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1976-10-14 | A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for … |
| Rollerball | Bartholomew | 1975-06-25 | In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy tho… |
| St. Ives | Abner Procane | 1976-02-24 | A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers…. |
| A Christmas Without Snow | Ephraim Adams | 1980-12-09 | A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She’s trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leav… |
| Murder by Phone | Stanley Markowitz | 1982-12-01 | A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it’s up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer…. |
| The Displaced Person | Father Flynn | 1977-04-12 | A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s…. |
| The Paper Chase | Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. | 1973-10-16 | A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor…. |
| Gideon’s Trumpet | Chief Justice / Offscreen Narrator | 1980-04-30 | True story of Clarence Gideon’s fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court’s decision whic… |
| Fear on Trial | Mike Collins | 1975-10-02 | The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was … |
| Van Gogh: Darkness into Light | Himself | 1957-09-17 | … |
| Ghost Story | Sears James | 1981-12-18 | Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley’s twin sons dies… |
| I’m a Stranger Here Myself | Self | 1975-01-17 | A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York…. |
| The Fog | Mr. Machen | 1980-02-08 | Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. … |
| Three Days of the Condor | Mr. Wabash | 1975-09-24 | A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust…. |
| The Babysitter | Dr. Lindquist | 1980-11-28 | Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter … |
| Old Boyfriends | Dr. Hoffman | 1979-03-22 | When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way…. |
| Too Much Johnson | Duelist | 2013-10-09 | This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles’ Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gille… |
| The New Deal for Artists | 1976-09-08 | The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters,… | |
| Wholly Moses | The Archangel | 1980-06-13 | Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from G… |
| Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Vogel | 1988-04-01 | A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife…. |
| American Playhouse: The Skin of Our Teeth | Network Newscaster | 1983-01-18 | Production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning play “The Skin of Our Teeth.”… |
| Another Woman | Marion’s Father | 1988-10-13 | Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti… |
| The Cheap Detective | Jasper Blubber | 1978-06-23 | A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of… |
| Beyond the Horizon | Dr. Fawcett | 1975-07-17 | On a Connecticut farm, James Mayo’s two sons both love Ruth Atkins. Robert, the younger son, is sickly and dreams of escaping to a romantic life somew… |
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self – 1980 Interviewee (archive footage) | 2015-08-18 | Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive home movie footage, including footage from the Gone… |
| A Rose for Emily | Narrator (voice) | 1983-10-01 | Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster…. |
| Scrooged | Himself | 1988-11-22 | Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi… |
| The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | Driving Instructor | 1988-12-02 | When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II…. |
| My Bodyguard | Dobbs | 1980-07-11 | Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmat… |
| Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self – Actor (archive footage) | 2014-12-12 | The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter,… |
| Seven Days in May | Vice Adm. Farley C. Barnswell (uncredited) | 1964-02-01 | A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him…. |
John Houseman Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Letter from an Unknown Woman | Producer | 1948-04-28 | A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forc… |
| On Dangerous Ground | Producer | 1951-12-13 | A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he … |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Producer | 1952-12-25 | Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari… |
| The Company She Keeps | Producer | 1951-01-27 | A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer’s fiance…. |
| They Live by Night | Producer | 1948-08-06 | An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the… |
| Lust for Life | Producer | 1956-09-15 | An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustr… |
| This Property Is Condemned | Producer | 1966-08-03 | A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town’s railway (town’s main income). Owen unexpectedly finds lo… |
| The Cobweb | Producer | 1955-06-07 | Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems…. |
| Miss Susie Slagle’s | Associate Producer | 1946-03-04 | A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease…. |
| The Blue Dahlia | Producer | 1946-04-16 | Soon after a veteran’s return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer…. |
| Moonfleet | Producer | 1955-06-24 | Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old frien… |
| Two Weeks in Another Town | Producer | 1962-08-17 | After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and profess… |
| All Fall Down | Producer | 1962-04-06 | Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry … |
| Executive Suite | Producer | 1954-04-30 | When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him…. |
| The Unseen | Associate Producer | 1945-05-12 | David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife’s death in a car cra… |
| Evening Primrose | Executive Producer | 1966-11-16 | A young poet gets the brilliant idea to live in a department store, hiding by day, and courting his muse by night where it’s quiet, and he can have al… |
| In the Cool of the Day | Producer | 1963-05-29 | After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband’s ex-colleague who… |
| Too Much Johnson | Producer | 2013-10-09 | This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles’ Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gille… |
| Her Twelve Men | Producer | 1954-08-11 | An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty…. |
| Julius Caesar | Producer | 1953-06-04 | The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic…. |
| Holiday for Sinners | Producer | 1952-07-25 | Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems…. |
| Gideon’s Trumpet | Executive Producer | 1980-04-30 | True story of Clarence Gideon’s fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court’s decision whic… |
| Choices of the Heart | Executive Producer | 1983-12-05 | Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of … |
| Producer | Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American telev… | ||
| Producer | The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van H… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Jane Eyre | Screenplay | 1943-12-24 | After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter…. |
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