Paul B. "Buddy" Swan (also credited as Buddy Swann) was an American

United States

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 child actor

Child actor

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

, best known for playing the title character

Charles Foster Kane

Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character and the subject of Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane. Welles played Kane , with Buddy Swan playing Kane as a child...

 of Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...

as an eight-year-old boy.

He also appeared in the horror film The Ape

The Ape

The Ape is a 1940 American horror film made for Monogram Pictures, co-written by Curt Siodmak and starring Boris Karloff.-Plot outline:Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his...

http://emol.org/movies/theape/index.html, the horror comedy Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff (1945 film)

Scared Stiff is an American film directed by Frank McDonald for Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is also known as Treasure of Fear .- Plot summary :...

, and the Academy-Award nominated film The Fighting Sullivans

The Fighting Sullivans

The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr. and Jules Schermer...

, playing one of the Sullivan brothers in their youth.http://www.loc.gov/film/picksta.html

Swan also appeared as a young actor in Broadway plays including Mr. Sycamore

Mr. Sycamore

Mr. Sycamore is a play written by Ketti Frings that was published in 1942. It is about a meek mailman who becomes so obsessed with a particular sycamore tree on his delivery route that he leads himself to believe that the only way to end his troubles is to plant himself and become a tree. On...

(1942) and The World We Make (1942). http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=111373

Filmography

• The Ape
  The Ape
  The Ape is a 1940 American horror film made for Monogram Pictures, co-written by Curt Siodmak and starring Boris Karloff.-Plot outline:Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his...
  
  (1940)
• Haunted House (1940)
• Citizen Kane
  Citizen Kane
  Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...
  
  (1941)
• The Fighting Sullivans
  The Fighting Sullivans
  The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr. and Jules Schermer...
  
  (1944)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1944)
• Scared Stiff
  Scared Stiff (1945 film)
  Scared Stiff is an American film directed by Frank McDonald for Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is also known as Treasure of Fear .- Plot summary :...
  
  (1945)
• Gallant Journey
  Gallant Journey
  Gallant Journey is a historical film about early U.S. aeronautical experimenter John Joseph Montgomery. It depicts his efforts to build and fly gliders, from his childhood through to his death in 1911.The chief pilot for the film was Paul Mantz....
  
  (1946)
• Centennial Summer
  Centennial Summer
  Centennial Summer is a 1946 film directed by Otto Preminger. The musical, that stars Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, is based on a novel by Albert E. Idell.It was produced in response to the hugely successful MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis...
  
  (1946)
• Prejudice (1949)
• Roaring Westward (1949)
• Shockproof
  Shockproof
  Shockproof is a 1949 movie starring Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight.The director of Shockproof, Douglas Sirk, said he took the assignment because the movie dealt with one of his favorite themes: the price of flouting taboos....
  
  (1949)
• Destination Murder
  Destination Murder
  Destination Murder is an American crime film noir directed by Edward L. Cahn. The drama features Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements and Hurd Hatfield.-Cast:* Joyce Mackenzie as Laura Mansfield* Stanley Clements as Jackie Wales...
  
  (1950)
• Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang (1950)
• A Modern Marriage (1950)
• One Minute to Zero (1952)

External links

• Buddy Swan filmography