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John Houseman
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Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Houseman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Trapped and Playing by Someone Else’s Rules
With the upcoming release of Jumanji: Open World, we trace the evolution of the survival game subgenre, following how the core premise of human beings forced to...
10 films
The Melodrama They Never Let Us Keep
Rachel Morrison's Love of Your Life arrives as a reminder: the woman's picture was never a lesser form. It was grief, desire and colour, and the Europeans knew...
8 films
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1988 · Self
Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · Mr. Vogel
Noble House
1988 · Sir Geoffrey Allison
The Winds of War
1983 · Aaron Jastrow
A Christmas Without Snow
1980 · Ephraim Adams
The Fog
1980 · Mr. Machen
Three Days of the Condor
1975 · Mr. Wabash
Rollerball
1975 · Bartholomew
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975 · Self
