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Buddy Swan is a Actor American born on 24 october 1929 at Los Angeles (USA)
Paul Benjamin "Buddy" Swan (October 24, 1929 – March 21, 1993) (also credited as Buddy Swann) was an American child actor, best known for playing the title character of the 1941 film Citizen Kane as an eight-year-old boy.
He also appeared in the horror film The Ape, the horror comedy Scared Stiff, and the Academy-Award nominated film The Fighting Sullivans, playing one of the Sullivan brothers in their youth.
Swan also appeared as a young actor in Broadway plays including Mr. Sycamore (1942) and The World We Make (1942).
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Birth name Paul Benjamin Swan
Nationality USA
Birth 24 october 1929 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 21 march 1993 (at 63 years) at Colorado Springs (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 24 october 1929 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 21 march 1993 (at 63 years) at Colorado Springs (USA)
He also appeared in the horror film The Ape, the horror comedy Scared Stiff, and the Academy-Award nominated film The Fighting Sullivans, playing one of the Sullivan brothers in their youth.
Swan also appeared as a young actor in Broadway plays including Mr. Sycamore (1942) and The World We Make (1942).
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Destination Murder (1950)
, 1h12Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield, Albert Dekker, James Flavin, Myrna Dell, John Dehner
Roles Arthur, Blue Streak Messenger
Rating60%
During a five-minute movie intermission, Jackie Wales leaves a theater, gets into a car, changes into a messenger's outfit, rings the doorbell of a man named Mansfield, shoots him, then rushes back to the theater and his date.
Shockproof (1949)
, 1h19Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, Esther Minciotti, Howard St. John, Russell Collins, Richard Benedict
Roles Teenage Boy (Uncredited)
Rating64%
Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde), is a parole officer who falls in love with a parolee, Jenny Marsh (Patricia Knight). Marsh had gone to prison in order to protect Harry Wesson (John Baragrey) a gambler with whom she was having an affair.
Centennial Summer (1946)
, 1h42Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, William Eythe, Constance Bennett
Roles Dudley Rogers
Rating60%
The movie is about two sisters growing up in Philadelphia in the 1870s. They both fall for a Frenchman who has to prepare the pavilion for the Centennial exposition.
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
, 1h20Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Guy Kibbee
Roles Kid (uncredited)
Rating65%
Athanael (Jack Benny), the third trumpet player in the orchestra of a late night radio show sponsored by Paradise Coffee (motto: "It's Heavenly"), falls asleep listening to the announcer, who is doing his best to prove it is "the coffee that makes you sleep." Athanael dreams he is an angel (junior grade) and a trumpeter in the orchestra of Heaven. Due to the praise of his girlfriend Elizabeth (Alexis Smith), the assistant of the deputy chief of the department of small planet management (Guy Kibbee), he is given the mission of destroying planet 339001 (Earth) and its troublesome inhabitants by blowing the "Last Trumpet" at exactly midnight, signaling the end of the world.
Scared Stiff (1945)
, 1h5Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg, Roger Pryor, George E. Stone
Roles Oliver Waldeck
Rating49%
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, chess reporter Larry Elliot is confronted with an ultimatum if he wants to keep his job as a newspaper reporter. He is forced to cover a big harvest festival held at a winery in Grape City. At the paper he is known to miss out on bigger stories to cover more trivial events of minor interest.
The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
, 1h52Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Trudy Marshall, John Alvin, Roy Roberts
Roles George, as a child (uncredited)
Rating74%
The Irish-American, Catholic Sullivan brothers are introduced through a progression of baptisms: George Thomas in 1914, Francis "Frank" Henry in 1916, Joseph Eugene in 1918, Madison "Matt" Abel in 1919, and Albert Leo in 1922 in their hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. There is also sister Genevieve, nicknamed "Gen", making the Sullivans a happy family of eight. As the boys grow, they are doted upon by their mother and sister Genevieve and given stern but loving guidance by their father, who is a railroad freight conductor. Each day, the boys climb the water tower by the tracks and wave to their father as he passes by on the train. The brothers are shown getting into their fair share of trouble growing up: a fight, a near drowning (after which their mother makes them promise not to set foot on a boat again until they are adults), and accidentally flooding the kitchen.
Citizen Kane (1941)
, 1h59Directed by Orson Welles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Hitler
Actors Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris
Roles Young Charles Foster Kane
Rating82%
In a mansion in Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed. Holding a snow globe, he utters a word, "Rosebud", and dies; the globe slips from his hand and smashes on the floor. A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher. Kane's death becomes sensational news around the world, and the newsreel's producer tasks reporter Jerry Thompson with discovering the meaning of "rosebud".
The Ape (1940)
, 1h12Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Ray Corrigan, Gertrude W. Hoffmann, Pauline Drake, George Cleveland
Roles Willie Brill
Rating46%
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. All he needs is spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople.