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John Houseman

Highest Rated: 100% Jane Eyre (1944)

Lowest Rated: 13% Wholly Moses! (1980)

Birthday: Sep 22, 1902

Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania

Widely regarded as one of the most respected innovators of the American stage, John Houseman also enjoyed tremendous success as a producer, screenwriter and, perhaps most remarkable of all, as a character actor in a prolific later career, begun at the age of 70. Forced out of his lucrative international grain business by the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Houseman found a creative outlet alongside wunderkind Orson Welles at the Federal Theater Project. Frequently controversial productions produced and directed by Houseman and Welles included the 1935 "voodoo" version of "Macbeth" and the historic labor union musical "The Cradle Will Rock" in 1936. After forming the Mercury Theater Company - responsible for the infamous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast in 1938 - with Welles, he followed the young auteur to Hollywood, where he made significant contributions to "Citizen Kane" (1941). A falling out over "Kane" brought an end to Houseman's relationship with the volatile Welles, although a successful career as a film producer kept him in the industry for more than 30 years. Then, just as he was about to retire, the 70-year-old Houseman became one of the most sought-after supporting actors in the years following his Academy Award-winning turn as a crusty, yet conscientious law professor in "The Paper Chase" (1973). Over the next 15 years, he would be seen in scores of feature films, television miniseries and commercial campaigns. In a variety of professional roles, Houseman made immeasurable contributions to the mediums of stage, film and television.

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Highest rated movies

100% 83% Jane Eyre
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100% 85% Letter From an Unknown Woman
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100% The New Deal for Artists
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100% 71% The Blue Dahlia
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100% 75% Executive Suite
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99% 90% Citizen Kane Watchlist
96% 81% Julius Caesar
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96% 80% They Live by Night
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89% 62% Two Weeks in Another Town
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89% 78% On Dangerous Ground
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
57% 39% Bright Lights, Big City Mr. Vogel (Character) $15.7M 1988
59% 75% Another Woman Marion's Father (Character) $499.5K 1988
71% 71% Scrooged Self $58.2M 1988
28% 46% Ghost Story Sears James (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 55% Gideon's Trumpet Chief Justice/Offscreen Narrator (Character),
Executive Producer
- 1980
13% 39% Wholly Moses! The Archangel (Character) - 1980
75% 65% The Fog Mr. Machen (Character) $69.5K 1980
79% 70% My Bodyguard Dobbs (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 40% A Christmas Without Snow Ephraim Adams (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 38% The Babysitter Dr. Lindquist (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 38% Bells Stanley Markowitz (Character) - 1980
100% No Score Yet The New Deal for Artists Unknown (Character) - 1979
53% 31% Old Boyfriends Doctor Hoffman (Character) - 1979
53% 57% The Cheap Detective Jasper Blubber (Character) - 1978
36% 39% St. Ives Abner Procane (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Truman at Potsdam Winston Churchill (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hazard's People John Hazard (Character) - 1976
87% 83% Three Days of the Condor Mr. Wabash (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beyond the Horizon Dr. Fawcett (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fear on Trial Mike Collins (Character) - 1975
67% 62% Rollerball Bartholomew (Character) - 1975
81% 72% The Paper Chase Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. (Character) - 1973
62% 75% This Property Is Condemned Producer - 1966
No Score Yet 33% In the Cool of the Day Producer - 1963
89% 62% Two Weeks in Another Town Producer - 1962
40% 53% All Fall Down Producer - 1962
80% 81% Lust for Life Producer - 1956
75% 47% The Cobweb Producer - 1955
69% 70% Moonfleet Producer - 1955
100% 75% Executive Suite Producer - 1954
No Score Yet 36% Her Twelve Men Producer - 1954
96% 81% Julius Caesar Producer - 1953
80% 86% The Bad and the Beautiful Producer - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Holiday for Sinners Producer - 1952
89% 78% On Dangerous Ground Producer - 1951
100% 85% Letter From an Unknown Woman Producer - 1948
96% 80% They Live by Night Producer - 1948
100% 71% The Blue Dahlia Producer - 1946
No Score Yet 20% The Unseen Producer - 1945
100% 83% Jane Eyre Screenwriter - 1944
99% 90% Citizen Kane Writer $977.3K 1941
No Score Yet 58% Too Much Johnson Producer - 1938

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet The Six Million Dollar Man Doctor Franklin (Guest Star) 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet 227 Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paper Chase Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. (Character) 1978-1979 1983-1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Associates Unknown (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The French Atlantic Affair Unknown (Character) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Aspen Unknown (Character) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bionic Woman Dr. Franklin (Guest Star) 1976