Actor
Buddy Swan
Born October 24, 1929Died March 21, 199313 films
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.
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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 in 1942, including Mr. Sycamore.
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First watchCitizen Kane19418.0as Young Charles Foster KaneNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he…View filmFilmography
13 films as actor- 1950Destination MurderArthur, Blue Streak Messenger
- 1950Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue GangWilliams (uncredited)
- 1949ShockproofTeenage Boy (Uncredited)
- 1946Gallant JourneySharkey (uncredited)
- 1946Centennial SummerDudley Rogers
- 1945Scared StiffOliver Waldeck
- 1945The Horn Blows at MidnightKid (uncredited)
- 1944Strange AffairNewsboy (uncredited)
- 1944The Soul of a MonsterSecond Newsboy (uncredited)
- 1944The Fighting SullivansGeorge, as a child (uncredited)
- 1941Citizen KaneYoung Charles Foster Kane
- 1940The ApeWillie Brill
- 1940Haunted HouseJunior Henshaw