Movies by John Houseman
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Six Characters in Search of an Author (2003)
Cast: Julie Adams, John Houseman, Andy Griffith …
Starring Andy Griffith and John Houseman, this adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's play takes place at a television studio, where a group of rehearsing actors are replaced by strangers who…
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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates …
Directed by: James Bridges
In this downbeat drama based on Jay McInerney's autobiographical novel, New York City yuppie and aspiring writer Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox) seeks oblivion in cocaine and the glittery…
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Another Woman (1988)
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm …
Directed by: Woody Allen
A university professor (Gena Rowlands) experiences a midlife crisis, so she rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office in order to write a book. There, she inadvertently…
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The Good Fight (1984)
Cast: John Houseman, Ruth Davidow, Colleen Dewhurst …
Directed by: Sam Sills, Noel Buckner, Mary Dore …
During the Spanish Civil War, thousands of Americans fought to end fascism, only to return home and be unfairly blacklisted as communist supporters. Narrated by Studs Terkel, this documentary…
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The Skin of Our Teeth (1983)
Cast: Blair Brown, Rue McClanahan, John Houseman …
Directed by: Jack O'Brien
Rue McClanahan heads a stellar cast in this filmed-for-PBS production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the Antrobus family, a clan whose members have survived…
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Ghost Story (1981)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. …
Directed by: John Irvin
Four New England octogenarians have harbored a terrible secret for half a century, but the lid on their Pandora's box of subterfuge is about to blow. The ghost of a young woman haunts…
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The Fog (1980)
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh …
Directed by: John Carpenter
While an old, weather-beaten fisherman tells a ghost story to fascinated children huddled by a campfire, a piece of driftwood in a child's hands begins to glow, and an eerie fog envelops…
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Wholly Moses (1980)
Cast: Gary Weis, Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman …
As an infant, Herschel, a contemporary of the Biblical Moses, was floated down the same river on the same morning as the legendary deliverer of the Jews. Unfortunately for Herschel, Moses…
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A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
Cast: James Cromwell, Barbara Tarbuck, Michael Learned …
Directed by: John Korty
In director John Korty's ode to the perseverance of the human spirit, a recent divorcee strives to rebuild her life by moving to San Francisco. With jumbled day-to-day jobs, the newly…
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Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Houseman, Fay Wray …
Directed by: Robert E. Collins
Oscar-winning actor Henry Fonda stars in this Emmy-nominated Hallmark Hall of Fame drama based on Anthony Lewis's book by the same name, the true story of one man's fight for the…
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The Cheap Detective (1978)
Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan …
Directed by: Robert Moore
With the requisite abundance of plot twists and creepy characters, playwright Neil Simon skewers film noir in a parody that combines scenes from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Lou…
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The Displaced Person (1977)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Dina Harris, John Houseman …
Directed by: Glenn Jordan
A widow (Irene Worth) disturbs the social order of 1940s Georgia when she allows a family of Polish World War II refugees to live on her land in this adaptation of Flannery…
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Beyond the Horizon (1976)
Cast: Richard Backus, James Broderick, Geraldine Fitzgerald …
Directed by: Michael Kahn
Brothers Robert (Richard Backus) and Andrew (Edward J. Moore) both love the same girl, Ruth (Maria Tucci), but only one of them can have her. Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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St. Ives (1976)
Cast: Robert Englund, Jeff Goldblum, Charles Bronson …
Novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson), an ex-reporter who covered the crime beat, may be in over his head when he agrees to negotiate the return of stolen ledgers for stinking rich…
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Rollerball (1975)
Cast: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
In the future, global megacorporations maintain their power by channeling and releasing human hostility through rollerball -- an anything-goes, worldwide sport designed to show the forcibly…
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Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, John Houseman …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford stars as Joe Turner, a New York-based CIA researcher who returns from lunch to find all his co-workers murdered. In the next 72 hours, everyone Turner trusts will try to kill…
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The Paper Chase (1973)
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman …
Directed by: James Bridges
A hardworking first-year student at Harvard Law School struggles to win the respect of a brilliant but ruthless professor, but he finds himself under the microscope when he learns that the…
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Clarence Darrow (1974)
Cast: Henry Fonda
Directed by: John Houseman
David W. Rintels's acclaimed stage play, based on the biography by Irving Stone, springs to life in this one-man show that originally aired on network television, starring Oscar winner…