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He was educated in England at Clifton College, became a British subject and worked in the grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman.
Although Welles took credit for the screenplay of Kane, Houseman stated that the credit belonged to Mankiewicz, an assertion that led to a final break with Welles.
Bishop moved into the role as Mrs. Houseman, and the film's assistant choreographer Miranda Garrison took on the role of Vivian.
Khumalo went on to become a star player for Kaizer Chiefs and did not play for any other South African soccer club, only leaving them for short overseas playing periods – he signed with FIFA agent Marcelo Houseman who took him to Argentina first Argentinian club Ferrocarril Oeste for six months in 1995 and in 1996 he played for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer.
Sternhagen took over the role after the show moved to the John Houseman Theatre and played it for more than two years.

Houseman and some
" " In 1956 ", he said, " John Houseman, who was then the general director and producer at the Stratford ( Conn .) American Shakespeare Theatre, called me up and said, ' would you like to do some Shakespeare?

Houseman and himself
Houseman himself worked as a speculator in the international grain markets, only turning to the theater following the 1929 stock market crash.
Houseman had developed an active interest in other lines of business and investments, notably in timber lands and the manufacture of pine lumber in Michigan, and after 1876 devoted himself largely to those interests.
Bit parts were given to Welles ' Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman, assistant director John Berry, composer Marc Blitzstein and the New York Herald Tribunes drama critic Herbert Drake ; Welles gave himself a small role as a Keystone Kop.

Houseman and for
Chandler had originally agreed to write the screenplay for nothing ' as a favour ' to John Houseman, the producer-but instead asked for a case of scotch as full payment.
John Houseman ( born Jacques Haussmann ; September 22, 1902October 31, 1988 ) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane.
Houseman was also known for his commercials for the brokerage firm Smith Barney.
It was the genesis, though, for the forging of a theatrical team, a fruitful but stormy partnership in which Houseman said Welles "... was the teacher, I, the apprentice.
Houseman immediately hired Welles and assigned him to direct Macbeth for the FTP's Negro Theater Unit, a production that became known as the " Voodoo Macbeth ", as it was set in the Haitian court of King Henri Christophe ( and with voodoo witch doctors for the three Weird Sisters ) and starred Jack Carter in the title role.
An adaptation of Treasure Island was scheduled for the program's first broadcast, for which Houseman worked feverishly on the script.
In an interview with Penelope Huston for Sight & Sound magazine ( Autumn, 1962 ) Houseman said that the writing of Citizen Kane was a delicate subject:
In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Houseman quit his job and became the head of the overseas radio division of the Office of War Information ( OWI ), working for the Voice of America whilst also managing its operations in New York City.
In the 1980s, Houseman became more widely known for his role as grandfather Edward Stratton II in Silver Spoons, which starred Rick Schroder, and for his commercials for brokerage firm Smith Barney, which featured the catchphrase, " They make money the old fashioned way ... they earn it.
In April 1914, Carpenter and his friend Laurence Houseman founded the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology.
Mankiewicz ( center ,) with Orson Welles ( left ) and John Houseman working on script for Citizen Kane in the California Desert
In 1876 he disposed of his business to his cousin, Joseph Houseman, who had been a partner for several years, and Moses May, who continued it for a number of years under the firm name of Houseman & May, which was later succeeded by Houseman, Donally & Jones.

Houseman and story
But it was clear to Welles and Houseman that the medium of radio suited the telling of a story far better than the dramatization of it.

Houseman and script
During an all night session at Perkins ' Restaurant, Welles and Houseman hashed out a script.
Welles telephoned Houseman asking him to return to Hollywood to " babysit " screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz while he completed the script, and keep him away from alcohol.
Hitchcock was under contract to David O. Selznick, so he first pitched the idea for the film to him ; Selznick gave the okay for a script to be written, assigning John Houseman to keep an eye on its progress and direction.

Houseman and .
Frankenheimer was next hired by producer John Houseman to direct All Fall Down, a family drama starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty.
** John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer ( d. 1988 )
* October 31 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer ( b. 1902 )
Peter Marsden has attracted new investors to the club, with a new board of directors ; Phillip Carruthers, Anthony Christofis, Joe Cirino, John Glasson, Robert Heys, Robert Houseman, Jim Kenyon, David Lloyd, Demetrakis Nicou, John Norris, Alan Pickup, Oliver Sanker and Peter Shaw.
: German Argentines include the late president Néstor Kirchner, top models Nicole Neumann, Milagros Schmoll, basketball player Wálter Herrmann, businessman Horst Paulmann, social leader Juan Carlos Blumberg beermakers Otto Bemberg and Otto Schneider, and football players Gabriel Heinze, Federico Lussenhoff, Gabriel Schurrer, Rene Houseman, among many others.
The protagonist Frances " Baby " Houseman ( named after Mount Holyoke graduate Frances Perkins ) plans to attend Mount Holyoke in the fall to study economics of underdeveloped countries and then to later enter the Peace Corps.
It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman.
* Houseman, J.
During 1968, Mennin hired John Houseman to manage a new Drama Division, and during 1969 oversaw Juilliard's relocation from Claremont Avenue to Lincoln Center and shortened its name to The Juilliard School.
Juilliard Drama was established during 1968 by the actor John Houseman and Michel Saint-Denis.
Her first job was as an assistant switchboard operator at the Mercury Theatre run by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
The production & Lawson then moved to the John Houseman Theatre in New York in 1995.
Houseman and White ( 1998b, bibliography ) have discovered numerous societies where kinship network analysis shows that two halves marry one another, similar to matrimonial moieties, except that the two halves — which they call matrimonial sides – are neither named nor descent groups, although the egocentric kinship terms may be consistent with the pattern of sidedness, whereas the sidedness is culturally evident but imperfect.
In 1972, LuPone became one of the original members of The Acting Company, formed by John Houseman.
It was narrated by John Houseman, with LuPone in the roles of Moll and Sister Mister.
John Houseman, then a well-known producer, made his American feature acting debut in a small role as a vice-admiral.
During his studies, Stiers was mentored by actor John Houseman and would later join his City Center Acting Company.
Houseman was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1902, the son of May ( née Davies ) and Georges Haussmann, who ran a grain business.
Houseman died of spinal cancer in 1988 at his home in Malibu, California, at age 86.
Houseman produced numerous Broadway productions, including Heartbreak House, Three Sisters, The Beggar's Opera, and several Shakespearean plays, including a famous " Blackshirt " Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles in 1937.

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