Papers, ca. 1945-1967.

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Papers, ca. 1945-1967.

Collection consists of production files, general correspondence, miscellanea, and US government and United Nations publications. Includes Wilson's production files for film, radio, and stage productions, containing correspondence, photographs, press clippings, screenplays, shooting scripts, material on research, budget and publicity, and interviews, articles and addresses by Wilson. Also includes material relating to Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater production of Macbeth.

25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7431420

University of California, Los Angeles

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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), ...