Orson Welles
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA — May 06 1915• Died Oct 10 1985
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George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style fe…
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American Experience
Self (archive footage)
Magnum, P.I.
Robin Masters (voice)
I Love Lucy
Orson Welles
Moonlighting
Orson Welles
The Name of the Game
Narrator
Dinah!
Self
Omnibus
Self - Presenter
Night Gallery
Narrator
What's My Line?
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Shōgun
Narrator
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Self - Host
The Lady from Shanghai
Michael O'Hara
Casino Royale
Le Chiffre
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
Citizen Kane
Charles Foster Kane
Shindig!
Sound
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sheridan Whiteside
King of Kings
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Muppet Movie
Lew Lord
Reflets de Cannes
Self
The Third Man
Harry Lime
National Geographic Specials
Narrator
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Crew
A Woman Called Moses
Narrator (voice)
The Vikings
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Moby Dick
Father Mapple
Catch-22
Brigadier General Dreedle
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
The Magic of David Copperfield
Host
Touch of Evil
Police Captain Hank Quinlan
Waxwork
Crew
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
A Man for All Seasons
Cardinal Wolsey
Is Paris Burning?
Konsul Nordling
Waterloo
Louis XVIII
Doug Henning's World of Magic
Self
The Long, Hot Summer
Will Varner
Scene of the Crime
The Transformers: The Movie
Unicron (voice)
Hollywood and the Stars
Self (archive footage)
Jane Eyre
Edward Rochester
La Classe américaine
Self (archive footage)
The Magnificent Ambersons
Narrator (voice)
And Then There Were None
Voice on Tape
Duel in the Sun
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ford Star Jubilee
Oscar Jaffe
The Kremlin Letter
Bresnavitch
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Self (archive footage)
Jodorowsky's Dune
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Trial
Albert Hastler
Othello
Othello
LIFE BEYOND
Self (voice)
Directed by John Ford
Narrator (voice)
Oedipus the King
Tiresias
Around the World with Orson Welles
Host: Orson Welles
Colgate Theatre
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Macbeth
Macbeth
Survival
Narrator
Monsieur Verdoux
Writing
Mr. Arkadin
Gregory Arkadin
Journey into Fear
Colonel Haki
The Stranger
Prof. Charles Rankin
Chimes at Midnight
Falstaff
Welcome to the Basement
Sound
Compulsion
Jonathan Wilk
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Voyage of the Damned
José Estedes
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
The Immortal Story
Charles Clay
The Witching
Mr. Cato
The V.I.P.s
Max Buda
Tomorrow Is Forever
John Andrew MacDonald
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
Crew
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
Magic with the Stars
Self - Host
Follow the Boys
Orson Welles (uncredited)
The Other Side of the Wind
Journalist (uncredited)
Butterfly
Judge Rauch
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)
Ferry to Hong Kong
Captain Hart
A Safe Place
The Magician
F for Fake
Self
Tepepa
Colonel Cascorro
House of Cards
Leschenhaut
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Battle of Neretva
Četnik
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Benjamin Franklin
The Magnificent Ambersons
Writing
Malpertuis
Cassavius
Black Magic
Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)
Get to Know Your Rabbit
Mr. Delasandro
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
Treasure Island
Long John Silver
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Self
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Self (archive footage)
Someone to Love
Danny's Friend
Napoleon
Sir Hudson Lowe
Necromancy
Mr. Cato
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
Halston
Sound
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Magician (uncredited)
Prince of Foxes
Cesare Borgia
Slapstick of Another Kind
Aliens' Father (voice) (uncredited)
King Lear
King Lear
David and Goliath
King Saul
The Battle of Sutjeska
Winston Churchill
Lost in La Mancha
Self (archive footage)
Twelve Plus One
Markan
History of the World: Part I
Narrator (voice)
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self / Narrator
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Jonathan Lute
Dahmer vs. Gacy
Crew
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Tartars
Burundai
Marco the Magnificent
Akerman, Marco's Teacher
The Black Rose
Bayan
Three Cases of Murder
Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
Self
Where Is Parsifal?
Klingsor
The Deep
Russ Brewer
Trouble in the Glen
Sanin Cejador y Mengues
Trick or Treats
Crew
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Self (archive footage)
Enchanted Journey
Pippo
It Happened One Christmas
Henry F. Potter
Start the Revolution Without Me
The Narrator
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
Genocide
Narrator (voice)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
The Double McGuffin
Narrator (voice)
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self - Roaster (archive footage)
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
Self
Hot Money
Sheriff Paisley
Hot Tomorrows
Parklawn Mortuary (voice)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Brass Ring
Writing
Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
Self (archive footage)
The Battle of Austerlitz
Robert Fulton
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Self (Archive footage)
Lafayette
Benjamin Franklin
Trent's Last Case
Sigsbee Manderson
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
The Roots of Heaven
Cy Sedgewick
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Sheridan Whiteside
The Hitchhiker
Writing
Crack in the Mirror
Hagolin / Lamerciere
Show-Business at War
Self
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Self (archive footage)
The Biggest Battle
Narratore
Too Much Johnson
Keystone Kop
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Presenter / Narrator (voice)
Let Poland Be Poland
Self
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
Self (archive footage)
Around the World of Mike Todd
Self - Narrator
Bucket
Crew
Disorder
Self
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Self
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
J.P. Morgan
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Louis de Mozambique
On the tracks of a filmmaker
Orson Welles
Continental
Crew
Don Quixote
Self
Man in the Shadow
Virgil Renchler
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Filming Othello
Host
Passage to Mars
Sound
The Fight for Rome
Justinian
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Self - Narrator
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Self
Crónicas fantásticas
Crew
Citizen Kane Trailer
himself
The Merchant of Venice
Shylock
The New Deal for Artists
Narrator (voice)
The Orson Welles Show
Self
In the Land of Don Quixote
Himself
The Road to Bresson
Self
Know Your Ally: Britain
Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)
The Silent Years
The Southern Star
Plankett
Hopper/Welles
Self
The Dreamers
Marcus Kleek
Upon This Rock
Michelangelo (voice)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
Bugs Bunny Superstar
Narrator (voice)
The Shadow Knows
Self (archive footage)
The Other Side of Welles
Self (archive footage)
Ten Days' Wonder
Théo Van Horn
Return to Glennascaul
Narrator
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Crew
The Fountain of Youth
the narrator
The Cave
Narrator
Vienna
Himself
The Well
The Orson Welles Story
Self
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Self
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self (archive footage)
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
An Arabian Night
Storyteller
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
It's Pretty, but is it Art?
Self (voiceover)
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Self (archive footage)
Future Shock
Narrator
Man, Beast and Virtue
Captain Perella, the Beast
Morceaux de Cannes
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
Self (Archive footage)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Narrator
A Mother's Tale
Narrator
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)
Ten Days That Shook the World
Narrator
Beggars Would Ride
Narrator
The Late Great Planet Earth
Self
Filming 'The Trial'
Self
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
Self
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
An Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab
The Big Brass Ring
Writing
Tales of the Klondike
Narrator
The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Doug Henning's World of Magic
Self - Special Guest
The Enemy Before Us
Narrator
Brasil
Self (archive footage)
This Is Orson Welles
Self
Citizen Vader
Writing
Who's Out There?
Host
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
Self - Narrator (voice)
Working with Orson Welles
Himself (Archive Footage)
Othelo The Great
Self (archive footage)
It's All True
Self
Almonds and Raisins
Narrator
Moby Dick
Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
(archive footage)
Beer and Board Games
Crew
Portrait: Orson Welles
Self
Twelfth Night
Narrator
Welles' Language
Self (archive footage)
Swiss Family Robinson
Opening Narrator (uncredited)
A Horse Called Nijinsky
Narrator
It's All True
Directing
The Hearts of Age
Death
Is It Always Right to Be Right?
Narrator
Orson Welles' Magic Show
Self
River of the Ocean
Narrator (English)
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Self - Host
According to Occam's Razor
Historias Breves 0: Distant encounters
Crew
The Magic History of Cinema
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
Narrator
Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
Self (narrator)
Lucifer et moi
(archive footage 1982)
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
Self
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Self (archive footage)
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Self
L'antre du Mea
Crew
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Narrator
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
Narrator
The Way to Santiago
Writing
The Finest Hours
Narrator (voice)
Hi-Fi
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
Narrator
Orson Welles in Spain
Himself
Lords of the Forest
Narrator (voice)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
Self
The UFO Conspiracy
Self (archive sound)
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Narrator (voice)
A Step Away
English Narrator
Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
Himself
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
Narrator
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Justinian
The Greenstone
Narrator (voice)
Flame of Persia
Narrator
Battle for Survival
Narrator
Tut: The Boy King
Himself - Host
Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
Himself
Treasury of Children's Stories
Sound
Magic Mirror Maze
South Seas Adventure
Narrator
Looking Back Before You Leap
General Zaroff (voice)
The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
Shylock
A Gift of Harvest
Narrator
Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
Himself
It's All True: Four Men on a Raft
Directing
F for favor
Writing
It's Not All True
Himself (archive footage)
High Journey
Narrator
Freedom River
Narrator
The Scorpion and the Frog
Narrator (archive footage)
Sentinels of Silence
Mexico City, Old and New
Narrator
Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
(Self)
The Miracle of St. Anne
The Director
Orson Welles' Sketch Book
Self - Host
A King's Story
Narrator
Out of Darkness
Self - Narrator
The Force Beyond
Himself (archive footage)
Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
Self
Lost in "The Thinking"
Self (archive footage)
The Land of the Basques
Himself
Americans on Everest
Narrator- Self
Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee
Narrator
One Man Band
Presenter / Various
The Welles Raft
Himself (Archive Footage)
Kelly Country
Narrator
The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
himself
The Battle of Grovers Mill
Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)
A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles
In Our Hands
Himself
The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)
Archival Footage
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
Falstaff
The Green Goddess
Rajah/Narrator
Search for the Titanic
Self - Host
The Quest for Fire Adventure
Narrator
Wagner e Venezia
Richard Wagner (voice)
Power and Corruption
Himself
The Hearts of Age
Writing
It's All Brazil
Self (archive footage)
The Heroine
Directing
Silent Times
Crew
The Hitch Hiker
Ronald Adams
Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers
Sound
To Build a Fire
Narrator (voice)
Embers & Dust
Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)
Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
Narrator
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
The Debridement of Rome
Crew
Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
Self
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
Narrator
The Psychic Connection
Narrator
WeirdWorld
Troy2000 (Archive footage)
To Try Again... and Succeed
Narrator (voice)
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
Cerné par le diable
Crew
The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
Narrator
Tim May Presents Reptile
Crew
Orson Welles Uncut
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Narrator
Incident at Barstow
Crew
From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
Narrator
Dieter & Andreas
Crew
Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
The Brother Side of the Wake
Crew
As Long as He Lives
Crew
The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
Narrator
King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
Self - Narrator
Variations on a High School Romance
Crew
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain
An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow
Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers
Self - Narrator (voice)
Something Else
An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah
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