Biography: John Houseman |

Before entering the entertainment industry, actor, producer, scriptwriter, playwright and stage director John Houseman, born Jacques Haussmann, first worked for his father's grain business after graduating from college, then began writing magazine... more
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Tags: Mystery Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 79min
In this shocking chiller an environmentalist, lecturing at a New York City college begins looking for the brutal killer who has been murdering his students. His search leads him to a psycho technician who has been using long-distance telephone calls...

Cast: Fred Astaire Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.   
Tags: Haunted House Film Horror Thriller 
Length: 110min
This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas,...

Cast: Henry Fonda   
Tags: Drama Prison Film Courtroom Drama Docudrama 
Length: 104min
In the tradition of his earlier work in Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda played another social-protest role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV presentation Gideon's Trumpet. Clarence Earl Gideon (Fonda) is a poor, ill-tempered Florida...

Cast: Ruth Gordon Tony Bill   
Tags: Coming-of-Age Teen Movie Comedy Drama 
Length: 96min
This quietly compelling film explores the hardships and anxieties of high school with intelligence, sensitivity, warmth and humor. Chris Makepeace stars as a shy, bookish student who has recently moved to Chicago and begun a new school. There he finds...

A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
Tags: Drama Ensemble Film Holiday Film 
Length: 96min
A Christmas Without Snow originally premiered December 9, 1980. The title refers to the film's setting: the snowless San Francisco. The story is told from the point of view of newly divorced Michael Learned, who comes to grips with disillusionment...

Cast: Ann-Margret Sid Caesar Stockard Channing Peter Falk Louise Fletcher   
Tags: Detective Film Crime Comedy Parody/Spoof Comedy 
Length: 92min
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's...

Cast: John Belushi Keith Carradine   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 103min
Noted screenwriter Joan Tewksbury made her directorial debut with this bittersweet comedy-drama. Diane Cruise (Talia Shire), a psychologist going through a severe depression, takes a long look at her life after attempting to commit suicide. Diane...

Cast: Charles Bronson Maximilian Schell   
Tags: Thriller Paranoid Thriller 
Length: 93min
Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could...

Cast: Janet Leigh John Houseman   
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror 
Length: 91min
Following the phenomenal box-office success of his seminal horror classic Halloween, director John Carpenter teamed up with producer Debra Hill for a second independent horror project, this time in the mode of an old-fashioned ghost story. The end...

Cast: Hal Holbrook   
Tags: Americana Drama Family Drama 
Length: 120min
This videotaped version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play Our Town stars Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager. Acting as narrator and assuming several different interlocutory roles throughout the production, Holbrook shows us life in Grovers...
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