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 Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet was the only person qualified to play the leading role.
In 1934, Houseman was looking to cast Panic, 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. He later directed The Lady from the Sea (1934), Valley Forge (1934). Composer Virgil Thomson recruited him to direct Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), Thomson's collaboration with Gertrude Stein. On Broadway he co-wrote Three and One (1933) and And Be My Love (1934). Houseman worked as a speculator in the international grain markets, only turning to the theater following the 1929 stock market crash. He became a United States citizen in 1943. 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. His mother was British, from a Christian family of Welsh and Irish descent. Houseman was born Jacques Haussmann on September 22, 1902, in Bucharest, Romania, the son of May (née Davies) a governess and Georges Haussmann, who ran a grain business. He reprised the role of Kingsfield in the 1978 television series adaptation. Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase.
He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Professor Charles W. He 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 and his collaboration, as producer of The Blue Dahlia, with writer Raymond Chandler on the screenplay.
John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and producer of theatre, film, and television.
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