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John Houseman
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Producer, Actor Born: September 22, 1902 in Bucharest, Romania Death: October 31, 1988 in Malibu, CA Biography:Before entering the entertainment industry, actor, producer, scriptwriter, playwright and stage director "John Houseman", born Jacques Haussmann, first worked for his father's grain business after graduating from college, then began writing magazine pieces and translating plays from German and French. Living in New York, he was writing, directing, and producing plays by his early 30s; soon he had a stellar reputation on Broadway. In 1937, he and "Orson Welles" founded the Mercury Theater, at which he produced and directed radio specials and stage presentations; at the same time he was a teacher at Vassar. He produced "Welles"'s never-completed first film, "Too Much Johnson" (1938). Houseman then went on to play a crucial role in the packaging of "Welles"'s first completed film, the masterpiece "Citizen Kane" (1941): he developed the original story with "Herman Mankiewicz", motivated "Mankiewicz" to... Full Biography
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