George Coulouris credited as playing...
Walter Parks Thatcher
- Kane: You know, Mr. Thatcher, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
- Walter Parks Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
- Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.
- Walter Parks Thatcher: What would you like to have been?
- Kane: Everything you hate.
- Walter Parks Thatcher: You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles.
- Kane: You're too old to be called anything else.
- Walter Parks Thatcher: [Quoting from Kane's letter] I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
- [Repeats the same line but with more aggravation in his voice]
- Walter Parks Thatcher: I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
- [Looks directly into the camera]
- Walter Parks Thatcher: Arggh!