John Houseman

...in "Pennies From Heaven'' (1981), his codifying a camera grammar for the paranoid thriller in Pakula's "The Parallax View'' (1974), or how John Houseman credited Willis's visual scheme for helping "create'' Houseman's character in James...

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...grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. He became a citizen of the U.S. in 1943. Houseman died of spinal cancer in 1988 at his home in Malibu, California.

In this article: Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane, Mercury Theatre, Julius Caesar, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, and H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

The Paper Chase is a 1973 film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman and directed by James Bridges. Based on John Jay Osborn, Jr.'s 1970 novel, The Paper Chase, the film tells the story of Hart, a first-year law...

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...in 1941 for $10,000. After numerous writers tried to make a screenplay out of it, nothing became of it. According to producer John Houseman, "I found the book and gave it to Nick to read, and he fell madly in love with it--as indeed I did, but...

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...the awkward start-and having no idea until she started getting laughs that the monologues were comedic-she earned praise from John Houseman. A week later, she was in-and with a full scholarship. Without the scholarship, Pelikan says, most...

In this article: Lisa Pelikan, Juilliard School, Mark Teschner, and Surgery

...you're playing at something other than yourself, it's fun to do what is taboo. I played Edgar in a production of King Lear that John Houseman directed for Lincoln Center. Edgar is the good son in Lear and it's probably the hardest role in the...

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...in clubs: "I had a friend get shot at once. That's a weird heckle." On the best advice he received while attending Juilliard: "John Houseman spoke to me and Christopher Reeve quite a bit. He'd say, 'Mr. Williams, Mr. Reeve, the theater...

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...aloud. "Voyage of a girl moored in Brooklyn," I read. "For Berlin, a modern makeover," I continued, sounding a bit, I thought, like John Houseman in "The Paper Chase," only louder. The stories went on, past 125th Street, past 135th. At 145th,...

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...actor. His first big break came when he was hired by the Mercury Theater for a presentation of Julius Caesar '' that was produced by John Houseman and directed by Orson Welles. Berry acted in other roles with the theater and assisted Welles in...

In this article: John Berry, Hollywood, Orson Welles, Paris, New York City, U.S., Leo Joannon, Academy Award, and Mercury Theater

...the stars were older white men in conservatively cut suits. The best remembered of these was the clench-jawed, bow-tied actor John Houseman, who touted Smith Barney with the we're-smarter-than-you catchphrase: "They make money the...

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