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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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1 Scrooged (1988) 6.9

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

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

In December the Roses Will Bloom Again
Movie, 1983

  • Main cast: Helen Hunt, Melissa Gilbert, Peter Horton
  • Music: John Rubinstein

This Property Is Condemned

This Property Is Condemned
Movie, 1966

  • Director: Sydney Pollack
  • Main cast: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid
  • Music: Kenyon Hopkins

Evening Primrose

Evening Primrose
Movie, 1966

  • Main cast: Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, Larry Gates, Dorothy Stickney
  • Music: Stephen Sondheim

In the Cool of the Day

In the Cool of the Day
Movie, 1963

  • Main cast: Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Peter Finch
  • Music: Francis Chagrin

All Fall Down

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

Two Weeks in Another Town
Movie, 1962

  • Director: Vincente Minnelli
  • Main cast: Kirk Douglas, George Hamilton, Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor

Lust for Life

Lust for Life
Movie, 1956

  • Director: Vincente Minnelli
  • Main cast: Anthony Quinn, Kirk Douglas, Pamela Brown
  • Music: Miklós Rózsa

Moonfleet

Moonfleet
Movie, 1955

  • Director: Fritz Lang
  • Main cast: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Viveca Lindfors, Joan Greenwood
  • Music: Miklós Rózsa

Executive Suite

Executive Suite
Movie, 1954

  • Main cast: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March

Her Twelve Men

Her Twelve Men
Movie, 1954

  • Director: Robert Z. Leonard
  • Main cast: Greer Garson, Barry Sullivan
  • Music: Bronislau Kaper

Julius Caesar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Main cast: Norman Spencer

Bright Lights, Big City

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

The Naked Gun
Driving Instructor
Movie, 1988

  • Director: David Zucker
  • Main cast: Ricardo Montalban, Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley
  • Music: Ira Newborn

Scrooged

Scrooged
Movie, 1988

  • Director: Richard Donner
  • Main cast: Bill Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Karen Allen, John Forsythe
  • Music: Danny Elfman

A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily
Narrator
Movie, 1983

  • Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
  • Main cast: Anjelica Huston, John Carradine
  • Music: George S. Clinton

Hell's Bells

Hell's Bells
Stanley Markowitz
Movie, 1982

  • Main cast: Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Robin Gammell
  • Music: John Barry

Ghost Story

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)

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

My Bodyguard
Dobbs
Movie, 1980

  • Main cast: Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin, Chris Makepeace, Paul Quandt
  • Music: Dave Grusin

Wholly Moses!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fear on Trial
Mike Collins
Movie, 1975

  • Director: Lamont Johnson
  • Main cast: William Devane, George C. Scott, John Houseman

Rollerball

Rollerball
Bartholomew
Movie, 1975

  • Director: Norman Jewison
  • Main cast: James Caan, Maud Adams, John Houseman
  • Music: André Previn

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon
Dr. Fawcett
Movie, 1975

  • Director: Michael Kahn, Rick Hauser
  • Main cast: Kate Wilkinson
  • Music: William David Brohn

Seven Days In May

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

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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