Buddy Swan

Acting

Buddy Swan

Born 1929-10-24 13 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. 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 …

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Filmography

13 films
Shockproof poster

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye…

Shockproof

★ 6.3 1949

Strange Affair poster

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet…

Strange Affair

★ 6.2 1944

Citizen Kane poster

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich…

Citizen Kane

★ 8.0 1941

The Ape poster

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human sp…

The Ape

★ 4.8 1940