Buddy Swan
Appearance
Buddy Swan | |
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Born | Paul Benjamin Swan October 24, 1929 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Died | March 21, 1993 | (aged 63)
Other names | Buddy Swann |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1940–1952 |
Paul "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.[1]
He also appeared in the horror film The Ape,[2] the horror comedy Scared Stiff, and the Academy-Award nominated film The Fighting Sullivans, playing one of the Sullivan brothers in their youth.[3]
Swan also appeared as a young actor in Broadway plays including Mr. Sycamore (1942) and The World We Make (1942).[4]
Filmography
- Haunted House (1940) - Junior Henshaw
- The Ape (1940) - Willie Brill (uncredited)
- Citizen Kane (1941) - Kane, age eight
- The Fighting Sullivans (1944) - George Sullivan as a Child (uncredited)
- The Seventh Cross (1944) - Boy (uncredited)
- The Soul of a Monster (1944) - Second Newsboy (uncredited)
- Sweet and Low-Down (1944) - Tony Birch (uncredited)
- Strange Affair (1944) - Newsboy (uncredited)
- The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) - Kid (uncredited)
- Scared Stiff (1945) - Oliver Waldeck
- Centennial Summer (1946) - Dudley Rogers
- Gallant Journey (1946) - Sharkey (uncredited)
- Command Decision (1948) - Flyer (uncredited)
- Shockproof (1949) - Teenage Boy (uncredited)
- Roaring Westward (1949) - Perry Andrews
- Prejudice (1949) - Eddie (uncredited)
- Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang (1950) - Williams (uncredited)
- Destination Murder (1950) - Arthur - Blue Streak Messenger
- A Modern Marriage (1950) - Spike
- One Minute to Zero (1952) - (uncredited)
References
- ^ Nissen, Axel (2013). The Films of Agnes Moorehead. Scarecrow Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780810891371. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
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- ^ "Buddy Swan". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
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