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John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and 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 W. Kingsfield in the film The Paper Chase (1973), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised his role as Kingsfield in the subsequent television 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.
Houseman was born in Bucharest, Romania on September 22, 1902, the son of May (née Davies) and Georges Haussmann, who ran a grain business. His mother was British, from a Christian family of Welsh and Irish descent. His father was an Alsatian-born Jew. He was educated in England at Clifton College, became a British subject, and worked in the grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. He became a United States citizen in 1943. Houseman died at age 86 of spinal cancer on October 31, 1988 at his home in Malibu, California.
Actors: Richard Linklater (director), Simon Atherton (miscellaneous crew), Steve Christian (producer), Richard Linklater (producer), Eddie Marsan (actor), John Sloss (producer), Jools Holland (actor), Claire Danes (actress), Zac Efron (actor), Chris Wilson (actor), Michael Brandon (actor), Greg Bennett (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew), Libbie Barr (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets 'Orson Welles' (qv), who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar, which includes such stalwart Mercury Theatre players as 'Joseph Cotten (I)' (qv) and 'George Coulouris' (qv). Despite others with official roles as producer 'John Houseman (I)' (qv), this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. These requests include everything, even those of a sexual nature. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants, which includes not having a fixed opening date, although the unofficial opening date is in one week's time. In turn, Welles realizes that his name will either be strengthened or ruined in the theater community by this production. Richard is taken under the wing by the production's Jane-of-All-Trades, Sonja Jones. Known as the Ice Queen by the male cast, Sonja deflects much of the unwanted sexual attention by jokingly implying that she and Richard are having a fling, which Richard wants nothing more than to be the truth. As the end of the week and opening night approaches, Richard, having seen Welles' behavior, has to decide if acting in this production is worth it at any cost.
Keywords: 17-year-old, 1930s, actor, actors'-equity-association, actress, ambition, ambulance, ambulance-siren, apology, applauseActors: Ridley Scott (producer), Melanie Griffith (actress), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Fiona Shaw (actress), James Cromwell (actor), Liev Schreiber (actor), Kerry Shale (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), David Suchet (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), John Malkovich (actor), John Altman (composer), Tony Scott (producer),
Plot: Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, anti-semitism, bankruptcy, based-on-documentary, based-on-true-story, censorship, director, film-director, film-industryActors: Frankie Faison (actor), Jay Bushman (writer), Jay Bushman (director), David Heckel (actor), Jay Bushman (producer), Todd Butera (actor), Kate Anthony (actress), Ilan Kometz (editor), Kevin Keaveney (actor), Loren Bevans (costume designer), Melanie Ashley (actress), Jim Spivey (miscellaneous crew), Matt Rankin (actor), Ray Schiel (actor), Camille McCord (actress),
Plot: 1937. Four years before Citizen Kane. Orson Welles is the budding "Wonderboy" of the theater. But at a rehearsal for "Doctor Faustus," not everyone holds him in such esteem. The crew is overworked and surly. The producer, John Houseman, wants to take control. But help arrives from an unlikely source.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Paul Giamatti (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Kyle Gass (actor), Peter Fernandez (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), John Cusack (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Carl Burrows (actor), Jack Black (actor), Rubén Blades (actor), Angus Macfadyen (actor), Barnard Hughes (actor),
Plot: In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller gets the foyer of his company headquarters decorated and an Italian countess sells paintings for Mussolini.
Keywords: 1930s, actor, actress, anti-communist, art, artist, bare-breasts, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, beaverFilm and theatre producer John Houseman comments on the early years of his career. Host: James Day. Part 1. Taped December 3, 1974. Day at Night originally aired on public television from 1973-1974. This episode was restored by CUNY Television. Taped at WNET in New York. CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of National Educational Television (NET) and television station WNDT/Channel 13, and most recently, Chairman of the CUNY TV Advisory Board. The series features fascinating interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970's. Watch mor...
Guest: John Houseman, Part 2, theatre and film producer and author. Taped December 3, 1973. Day at Night originally aired on public television from 1973-1974. This episode was restored by CUNY Television. CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of National Educational Television (NET) and television station WNDT/Channel 13, and most recently, Chairman of the CUNY TV Advisory Board. The series features fascinating interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970's. Watch more at www.cuny.tv/series/dayatnight
Set in 2018 when corporations have replaced countries, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Roald Dahl és John Houseman egy-egy meghökkentő, megdöbbentő története világunkról.
Roald Dahl és John Houseman egy-egy meghökkentő, megdöbbentő története világunkról.
Expecting only the basic pressures of attending Harvard Law School, a serious, hard-working student (Timothy Bottoms) finds himself the fearful adversary of the school's most imperious, sarcastic professor (John Houseman). Their relationship grows even more complex when the boy discovers that the girl he's in love with is the professor's daughter (Lindsay Wagner).
Roald Dahl és John Houseman egy-egy meghökkentő, megdöbbentő története világunkról.
Sinopsis Un asesino en serie utiliza aparatos telefónicos como máquinas homicidas. Título original Murder by Phone Año 1982 Duración 79 min. País Canadá Director Michael Anderson Guión Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack, John Kent Harrison Música John Barry Fotografía Reginald H. Morris Reparto Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Robin Gammell, Gary Reineke, Barry Morse, Alan Scarfe, James B. Douglas, Ken Pogue Género Terror. Thriller. Intriga | Crimen. Asesinos en serie
John Houseman talks to Jim Bernhard about his two careers, as a theatrical producer and later, in his 70s, as a movie actor, on "The Greenroom," KUHT Houston-PBS. 1985.
Ernest Borgnine and Cybill Shepherd presenting John Houseman with the Oscar® for Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Paper Chase" at the 46th Academy Awards® in 1974.
John Houseman tells the true story of opening night of Marc Blitzstein's 1937 labor musical The Cradle Will Rock, the only musical ever shut down by the government for subversive content. This video clip was an introduction to the PBS broadcast of the 1985 revival of the show, with Patti LuPone.
Visit USC on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/usc Learn more about the University of Southern California: http://www.usc.edu John Edward Blankenchip, professor emeritus of theatre at USC, reflects on his career, on his decades of service to the university and on the development of the USC School of Theatre. He touches on a wide range of topics, ranging from the involvement of actor/producer/director John Houseman and patron Anna Bing Arnold with the USC School of Theatre to the school's participation in the Edinburgh Festival. Blankenchip joined USC in 1955, just a decade after the drama department was founded by playwright and director William C. DeMille, and continued to teach classes in directing and experimental theatre at USC until his death in April 2009. Blankenchip was interview...
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5-part interview with Actress Betty Garrett. Garrett talked about her early years training at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Martha Graham in New York in the 1930s. She described her stage debut in 1938 in Orson Welles and John Houseman's Mercury Theatre production of "Danton's Death." She described her other stage roles, such as "Something for the Boys" with Ethel Merman and "Laffing Room Only" with Olsen and Johnson. She discussed her movie career at MGM and the dark days of the Hollywood Blacklist that affected her and her husband, Larry Parks. She talked about her first work in TV in its earliest days in Chicago and on such New York shows as All Star Revue and Texaco Command Appearance. She talked about her television work in the 1960s in The Art Carney Specials, The Chevy Sh...
In her 7-part oral history interview, Ethel Winant (1922-2003) discusses her start in television as a volunteer for Studio One, produced by Worthington Minor. Winant talks about her shift into casting and her job with David Susskind's Talent Associates. Winant speaks about her experience as one of the first, high-ranking female executives in television, working for CBS and NBC. Winant's fondest memories in television focus on her work as a casting director for "Playhouse 90", and the talented people she worked with: John Houseman, John Frankenheimer, Martin Manulis, Fred Coe and Hubbell Robinson. Additionally she talks about casting such ensemble shows as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". For all segments visit channel playlists or go to http://tvinterviewsarchive.blogspot.com for all links in ...