John Houseman
John Houseman was a romanian screenwriter, producer and actor, known for Citizen Kane (1941), Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) and Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016). He died October 31, 1988. He became 86 years old.
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John Houseman
- Name: John Houseman
- Age: 86 years
- Height: 178 cm
- Birth Date: September 22, 1902
- Birth Name: Jacques Haussmann
- Birth Region: Bucharest, Romania
- Death Date: October 31, 1988
- Death Region: Malibu, California, USA
- Nationality: Romanian
John Houseman's filmography
Screenwriter
John is listed as screenwriter for one title.

Citizen Kane
Movie, 1941
- Director: Orson Welles
- Main cast: Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Dorothy Comingore
- Music: Bernard Herrmann
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Producer
John is listed as producer for seventeen titles.

In December the Roses Will Bloom Again
Movie, 1983
- Main cast: Helen Hunt, Melissa Gilbert, Peter Horton
- Music: John Rubinstein

This Property Is Condemned
Movie, 1966
- Director: Sydney Pollack
- Main cast: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid
- Music: Kenyon Hopkins

Evening Primrose
Movie, 1966
- Main cast: Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, Larry Gates, Dorothy Stickney
- Music: Stephen Sondheim

In the Cool of the Day
Movie, 1963
- Main cast: Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Peter Finch
- Music: Francis Chagrin

All Fall Down
Movie, 1962
- Director: John Frankenheimer
- Main cast: Angela Lansbury, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint
- Music: Alex North

Two Weeks in Another Town
Movie, 1962
- Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Main cast: Kirk Douglas, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor

Lust for Life
Movie, 1956
- Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Main cast: Anthony Quinn, Kirk Douglas, Pamela Brown
- Music: Miklós Rózsa

Moonfleet
Movie, 1955
- Director: Fritz Lang
- Main cast: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Viveca Lindfors, Joan Greenwood
- Music: Miklós Rózsa

Executive Suite
Movie, 1954
- Main cast: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March

Her Twelve Men
Movie, 1954
- Director: Robert Z. Leonard
- Main cast: Greer Garson, Barry Sullivan
- Music: Bronislau Kaper

Julius Caesar
Movie, 1953
- Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Main cast: Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, James Mason, Louis Calhern
- Music: Miklós Rózsa

Memorial to a Bad Man
Movie, 1952
- Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Main cast: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell
- Music: David Raksin

Holiday for Sinners
Movie, 1952
- Director: Gerald Mayer
- Main cast: William Campbell, Janice Rule, Gig Young, Keenan Wynn
- Music: Alberto Colombo

The Company She Keeps
Movie, 1951
- Director: John Cromwell
- Main cast: Lizabeth Scott, Fay Baker, Jane Greer, Dennis O'Keefe

Letter from an Unknown Woman
Movie, 1948
- Director: Max Ophüls
- Main cast: Joan Fontaine, Mady Christians, Louis Jourdan, Marcel Journet
- Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof

They Live by Night
Movie, 1948
- Director: Nicholas Ray
- Main cast: Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell

The Blue Dahlia
Movie, 1946
- Main cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva
- Music: Victor Young, Robert Emmett Dolan, Harry Simeone
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Actor
John is listed as actor for twenty two titles.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Self (archive footage)
Movie, 2024
- Director: Peter Ettedgui
- Main cast: Christopher Reeve, Dana Reeve, Will Reeve
- Music: Ilan Eshkeri

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
- 1980 Interviewee (archive footage)
Movie, 2016
- Main cast: Norman Spencer

Bright Lights, Big City
Mr. Vogel
Movie, 1988
- Main cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, Phoebe Cates, Jason Robards
- Music: Donald Fagen

The Naked Gun
Driving Instructor
Movie, 1988
- Director: David Zucker
- Main cast: Ricardo Montalban, Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley
- Music: Ira Newborn

Scrooged
Movie, 1988
- Director: Richard Donner
- Main cast: Bill Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Karen Allen, John Forsythe
- Music: Danny Elfman

A Rose for Emily
Narrator
Movie, 1983
- Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
- Main cast: Anjelica Huston, John Carradine
- Music: George S. Clinton

Hell's Bells
Stanley Markowitz
Movie, 1982
- Main cast: Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Robin Gammell
- Music: John Barry

Ghost Story
Sears James
Movie, 1981
- Director: John Irvin
- Main cast: Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melvyn Douglas, John Houseman
- Music: Philippe Sarde

Christmas Without Snow, A (1980)
Ephraim Adams
Movie, 1980
- Director: John Korty
- Main cast: James Cromwell, Ramon Bieri, John Houseman, Michael Learned
- Music: Ed Bogas

My Bodyguard
Dobbs
Movie, 1980
- Main cast: Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin, Chris Makepeace, Paul Quandt
- Music: Dave Grusin

Wholly Moses!
The Archangel
Movie, 1980
- Director: Gary Weis
- Main cast: Laraine Newman, Dudley Moore, James Coco, Paul Sand
- Music: Patrick Williams
John Carpenter's The Fog
Mr. Machen
Movie, 1980
- Director: John Carpenter
- Main cast: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Janet Leigh, Tom Atkins
- Music: John Carpenter

Old Boyfriends
Doctor Hoffman
Movie, 1979
- Director: Joan Tewkesbury
- Main cast: Keith Carradine, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Talia Shire
- Music: David Shire

Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective
Jasper Blubber
Movie, 1978
- Main cast: Ann-Margret Olsson, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar
- Music: Patrick Williams

The Displaced Person
Father Flynn
Movie, 1977
- Director: Glenn Jordan
- Main cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John Houseman
- Music: Bill Conti

3 Days of the Condor
Mr. Wabash
Movie, 1975
- Director: Sydney Pollack
- Main cast: Robert Redford, Max von Sydow, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
- Music: Dave Grusin

I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Movie, 1975
- Director: David Helpern
- Main cast: François Truffaut, Nicholas Ray, John Houseman, Howard Da Silva

Fear on Trial
Mike Collins
Movie, 1975
- Director: Lamont Johnson
- Main cast: William Devane, George C. Scott, John Houseman

Rollerball
Bartholomew
Movie, 1975
- Director: Norman Jewison
- Main cast: James Caan, Maud Adams, John Houseman
- Music: André Previn

Beyond the Horizon
Dr. Fawcett
Movie, 1975
- Director: Michael Kahn, Rick Hauser
- Main cast: Kate Wilkinson
- Music: William David Brohn

Seven Days In May
Vice Adm. Farley C. Barnswell
Movie, 1964
- Director: John Frankenheimer
- Main cast: Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith

Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light
Self
Movie, 1956
- Main cast: Kirk Douglas, John Houseman, Vincente Minnelli, Dore Schary
- Music: Miklós Rózsa
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