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Frankenheimer was next hired by producer John Houseman to direct All Fall Down, a family drama starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty.
It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman.
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.
It was narrated by John Houseman, with LuPone in the roles of Moll and Sister Mister.
During his studies, Stiers was mentored by actor John Houseman and would later join his City Center Acting Company.
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.
Houseman was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1902, the son of May ( née Davies ) and Georges Haussmann, who ran a grain business.
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.
In 1934, Houseman was looking to cast a play he was producing based on a drama by Archibald MacLeish concerning a Wall Street financier whose world crumbles about him when consumed by the crash of 1929.
Although the central figure is a man in his late fifties, Houseman became obsessed by the notion that a young man named Orson Welles he had seen in a Cornell Company production of Romeo and Juliet was the only person qualified to play the leading role.
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.
After 10 months with the Negro Theater Project, however, Houseman felt he was faced with the dilemma of risking his future:
Armed with a manifesto written by Houseman declaring their intention to foster new talent, experiment with new types of plays, and appeal to the same audiences that frequented the Federal Theater the company was designed largely to offer plays of the past, preferably those that "... seem to have emotion or factual bearing on contemporary life .” The company mounted several notable productions, the most remarkable being its first commercial production of Julius Caesar.
An adaptation of Treasure Island was scheduled for the program's first broadcast, for which Houseman worked feverishly on the script.
While Houseman was teaching at Vassar College, he produced Welles ’ never-completed second short film, Too Much Johnson ( 1938 ).
Still drawn to Welles, as was virtually everyone in his sphere, Houseman agreed.
In an interview with Penelope Huston for Sight & Sound magazine ( Autumn, 1962 ) Houseman said that the writing of Citizen Kane was a delicate subject:
Houseman was the executive producer of CBS ' landmark Seven Lively Arts series.
Houseman was reunited with The Paper Chase co-star Lindsay Wagner in " Kill Oscar ," a three-part joint episode of the popular science-fiction shows The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man as the scientific genius Dr. Franklin.
Houseman was the founding director of the Drama Division at The Juilliard School where his first graduating class included Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone.

Houseman and by
In 1972, LuPone became one of the original members of The Acting Company, formed by John Houseman.
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.
The " Negro Units " of the Federal Theatre Project were headed by Rose McClendon, a well-known black actress, and Houseman, a theatre producer.
The film was directed by Fritz Lang and produced by John Houseman, a former associate of Orson Welles.
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.
He was survived by his daughter, an only child, Mrs. David M. Amberg and family of Grand Rapids ; his sister, Mrs. M. Alsberg of New York city ; William Houseman, a half brother ; Mrs. Simon Mainzer, a half sister, and his cousin, Mr. Joseph Houseman and family.
The Houseman Field continues be shared by several Grand Rapids area high schools.
Produced by John Houseman, it was a sponsored continuation of The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Edward's father is played by John Houseman as the thoughtful, well-to-do patriarch and industrialist whose demeanor starkly contrasts with Edward's and seems more similar to Ricky's ( at first ).

Houseman and Cary
Despite being canceled, the director, Orson Welles ( Angus Macfadyen ), and producer, John Houseman ( Cary Elwes ), lead the cast to another theater that was secured at the last minute.
* Cary Elwes as John Houseman

Houseman and film
In 1975, during an interview with Kate McCauley, Houseman stated that film critic Pauline Kael in her tome, The Citizen Kane Book, had caused an “ idiotic controversy ” over the issue:
Houseman played Energy Corporation Executive Bartholomew in the 1975 film Rollerball and parodied Sydney Greenstreet in the 1978 Neil Simon film, The Cheap Detective.
Actor Eddie Marsan plays the role of Houseman in Richard Linklater's 2009 film, Me & Orson Welles.
For the female lead of Frances " Baby " Houseman, Bergstein chose the 26-year-old Jennifer Grey, daughter of the Oscar winning actor and dancer Joel Grey of the 1972 film Cabaret who, like her father, was also a trained dancer.
In 1986, Bishop was initially cast in a much smaller part in the film Dirty Dancing, but was then called upon to play Mrs. Houseman when Lynne Lipton, the actress assigned the role, fell ill during the first week of shooting.
A made-for-TV movie based on the book was released in 1980, starring Henry Fonda as Clarence Earl Gideon, José Ferrer as Abe Fortas and John Houseman as Earl Warren ( though Warren's name was never mentioned in the film ; he was billed simply as " The Chief Justice ").
Houseman also provided the offscreen closing narration at the end of the film.
On Dangerous Ground ( 1952 ) is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by John Houseman.
* John Houseman, born Jacques Haussmann ( 1902 – 1988 ), Jewish French-Romanian / US actor and film producer
( Houseman reprises this role in the opening of the 1981 film Ghost Story ).
Other in-jokes and references that are interwoven into the film include the name of the John Houseman character " Mr. Machen " ( a reference to British horror fantasist Arthur Machen ); a radio report that mentions Arkham Reef ; and the Dr. Phibes character, who was named after the titular character in the horror films starring Vincent Price from the early 1970s.
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.
He edited the footage on a Moviola in his suite at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, and John Houseman later recalled visitors had to " wade knee-deep through a crackling sea of flammable film.
Julius Caesar is a 1953 MGM film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman.
John Houseman, who had produced the famous 1937 Broadway version of the play starring Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, also produced the MGM film.
By this time, however, Welles and Houseman had had a falling out, and Welles had nothing to do with the 1953 film.

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