Spoiler : Houseman, John (birth name was Jacques Haussmann) Born in Bucarest, Romania 9/22/1902; died 10/31/1988 of spinal cancer in Malibu, California. Married to Zita Johann (1929-?); Joan Courtney (1950-1988 his death). Moved to Argentina to conduct a wheat import business in 1923. Came to America in 1925 and became a writer for magazines, adapted plays from German and French into English. Produced a play in 1932, titled Four Saints In Three Acts. Orson Welles and Houseman founded the Mercury Theater in 1937. Screen debut at age 62 in Seven Days In May (1964). Academy Award for The Paper Chase (1973). Last movie was Another Woman (1988).

Spoiler : Producer-writer for The Mercury Theater On The Air on CBS-Radio (1938, again in 1946). Producer of The Campbell Playhouse on CBS-Radio (1938-1941).

Spoiler : Executive producer of The Seven Lively Arts on CBS-TV (1957-1958). Jeremiah Gridley on the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles (1976). Myron Dunn on the ABC-TV miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977). Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. on The Paper Chase for CBS-TV (1978- 1979). Joseph Drummond on the NBC-TV miniseries, The Innocent And The Damned (1979). Host of the syndicated television series, Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected (1979-1981). Grandfather Edward Stratton II on Silver Spoons for NBC-TV (1982-1986). Aaron Jastrow on the ABC-TV miniseries, The Winds Of War (1983). Gamaliel on the NBC-TV miniseries A.D. (1985).