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.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1974
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1974 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 1954 · nominated
Filmography43 titles
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Lincoln
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Three Days of the Condor
The Six Million Dollar Man
Seven Days in May
The Bad and the Beautiful
Lust for Life
Executive Suite
Julius Caesar
Noble House
The Displaced Person
The Bionic Woman
Jane Eyre
Another Woman
Scrooged
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The Paper Chase
The Dick Cavett Show
The Fog
The Blue Dahlia
On Dangerous Ground
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
This Property Is Condemned
Gideon's Trumpet
The Cheap Detective
Silver Spoons
My Bodyguard
Rollerball
Great Performances
Ghost Story
All Fall Down
Two Weeks in Another Town
In the Cool of the Day
Bright Lights, Big City
A Christmas Without Snow
St. Ives
The Cobweb
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
Too Much Johnson
Old Boyfriends
American: An Odyssey to 1947
The New Deal for Artists