Biography
John Houseman was a British-American theatre and film producer, actor, director, and teacher. He 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 enjoyed a distinguished career as an influential producer of both the stage and screen, and was the founding director of the drama department of the Juilliard School and co-founder of The Acting Company.
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1974
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1974 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 1954 · nominated
Filmography44 titles
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Lincoln
Seven Days in May
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Three Days of the Condor
The Six Million Dollar Man
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
227
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
Wholly Moses
American: An Odyssey to 1947
The New Deal for Artists