
John Houseman
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Acting · Born 1902-09-22 · age 86 at death · Bucharest, Romania
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.
Titles

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Fog

Three Days of the Condor

Rollerball

The Six Million Dollar Man

Letter from an Unknown Woman

The Bad and the Beautiful

Another Woman

The Bionic Woman

Julius Caesar

Seven Days in May

Lust for Life

They Live by Night

The Blue Dahlia

Ghost Story

On Dangerous Ground

Jane Eyre

Bright Lights, Big City

Moonfleet

My Bodyguard

The Paper Chase

This Property Is Condemned

The Cheap Detective

Executive Suite

Two Weeks in Another Town

St. Ives

Silver Spoons

Noble House

The Winds of War

227

Wholly Moses

The Cobweb

All Fall Down

Marco Polo

Too Much Johnson

Great Performances

Murder by Phone

The Unseen

Old Boyfriends

The Company She Keeps

The Babysitter

Gideon's Trumpet

In the Cool of the Day

A.D.

Evening Primrose

Lincoln

A Christmas Without Snow

The Paper Chase

Hallmark Hall of Fame

American Playhouse

Her Twelve Men

The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

Holiday for Sinners

The Adams Chronicles

The French Atlantic Affair
Fireside Theater

Captains and the Kings

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

The Displaced Person
Choices of the Heart