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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: December 25, 1915 in McKeesport, PA Death: August 12, 1991 Biography:Fresh from the University of Denver, American actor "Richard Wilson" headed to Chicago and then New York, for the hectic life of a radio actor. He befriended fellow performer "Orson Welles" while both were making the radio-network rounds. In 1937, Welles invited Wilson to join his Mercury Theatre stage troupe, where Wilson functioned as actor, adaptor, production associate and assistant director. When Welles moved his Mercury troupe to Hollywood in 1940 for "Citizen Kane", Wilson went along as jack-of-all-trades; if you look closely, you can see the angular Mr. Wilson as one of the shadowy reporters in "Kane"'s closing scenes. After working as a production assistant on Welles' followup film "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), Wilson joined Welles in Rio de Janeiro to work on the ill-fated Technicolor documentary "It's All True" (1942). Stories involving this disaster-prone effort have fallen into the... Full Biography
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