Richard Alan Wilson Papers, ca. 1945-1967

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Richard Alan Wilson Papers, ca. 1945-1967

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Richard Alan Wilson (1915- ) was a actor, stage manager, and assistant producer at the Mercury Theatre under Orson Welles. Wilson worked on all Welles' films and radio shows until 1948 when he began work as an associate producer on and . He later became a producer at Universal-International and directed movies including (1955), (1957), (1959), (1964), and (1968). The collection consists of general correspondence, miscellanea, U.S. government and United Nations publications, and production files for film, radio, and stage productions. The production files contain correspondence, photographs, press clippings, screenplays, shooting scripts, material on research, budget and publicity, and interviews, articles and addresses by Wilson. There is also material relating to Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater production of . Lady from Shanghai Macbeth Man with the gun Night in Havana Al Capone Invitation to a gunfighter Three in the attic Macbeth

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Wilson, Richard, 1915-1991

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Wilson was born in 1915 in McKeesport, PA; attended Denver Univ.; became an announcer and actor for radio in Denver and New York; in 1937, became an actor, stage manager, and asst. producer for Orson Welles at the Mercury Theatre; worked on all Welles' films and radio shows to 1948; was assoc. producer on Lady from Shanghai (in collaboration with William Castle), and Macbeth; became assoc. producer, then producer at Universal-International; directed the following films: Man with the gun (1955), ...