John Houseman
Acting
1902-09-22 · 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.
Filmography
American: An Odyssey to 1947
2022 · Movie
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014 · Movie
Too Much Johnson
2013 · Movie
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
2002 · Movie
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · Movie
Scrooged
1988 · Movie
Another Woman
1988 · Movie
Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · Movie
Lincoln
1988 · Series
Noble House
1988 · Series
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
1987 · Series
227
1985 · Series
The Cradle Will Rock
1985 · Movie
A.D.
1985 · Series
Olympic Gala
1984 · Movie
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
1984 · Movie
Choices of the Heart
1983 · Movie
A Rose for Emily
1983 · Movie
The Winds of War
1983 · Series
The Skin of Our Teeth
1983 · Movie
Marco Polo
1982 · Series
Murder by Phone
1982 · Movie
Silver Spoons
1982 · Series
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Ghost Story
1981 · Movie
Writing: Plain & Fancy
1981 · Movie
The New Deal for Artists
1981 · Movie
A Christmas Without Snow
1980 · Movie
The Babysitter
1980 · Movie
My Bodyguard
1980 · Movie
Wholly Moses
1980 · Movie
Gideon's Trumpet
1980 · Movie
The Fog
1980 · Movie
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1980 · Movie
The French Atlantic Affair
1979 · Series
The Last Convertible
1979 · Series
Old Boyfriends
1979 · Movie
The Paper Chase
1978 · Series
The Cheap Detective
1978 · Movie
Aspen
1977 · Series
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977 · Series
The Displaced Person
1977 · Movie
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1976 · Movie
Captains and the Kings
1976 · Series
Truman at Potsdam
1976 · Movie
St. Ives
1976 · Movie
The Adams Chronicles
1976 · Series
The Bionic Woman
1976 · Series
Fear on Trial
1975 · Movie
Three Days of the Condor
1975 · Movie
Beyond the Horizon
1975 · Movie
Rollerball
1975 · Movie
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975 · Movie
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974 · Series
The Paper Chase
1973 · Movie
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
Great Performances
1971 · Series
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Evening Primrose
1966 · Movie
This Property Is Condemned
1966 · Movie
Seven Days in May
1964 · Movie
The Great Adventure
1963 · Series
In the Cool of the Day
1963 · Movie
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962 · Movie
All Fall Down
1962 · Movie
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
The Nutcracker
1958 · Movie
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light
1957 · Movie
Lust for Life
1956 · Movie
Moonfleet
1955 · Movie
The Cobweb
1955 · Movie
Her Twelve Men
1954 · Movie
Executive Suite
1954 · Movie
Julius Caesar
1953 · Movie
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · Movie
Holiday for Sinners
1952 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
On Dangerous Ground
1951 · Movie
The Company She Keeps
1951 · Movie
They Live by Night
1949 · Movie
Fireside Theater
1949 · Series
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · Movie
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · Movie
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946 · Movie
The Unseen
1945 · Movie
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Jane Eyre
1943 · Movie