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Orson Welles

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

06/05/1915

Day of Death

10/10/1985
(70) years old

Place of Birth

Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Orson Welles

Biography

George Orson Welles, best known as Orson Welles, 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 i... Read More

Known For

Othelo The Great

The Battle of Grovers Mill

Jim Henson Idea Man

The Welles Raft

Hopper/Welles

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview

Lucifer et moi

Filmography

Cast

2024

Othelo The Great

as Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)

2024

The Battle of Grovers Mill

as Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)

2024

Jim Henson Idea Man

as Self (archive footage)

2022

The Welles Raft

as Himself (Archive Footage)

2020

Hopper/Welles

as Self

2018

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

as Self (archive footage)

2018

The Eyes of Orson Welles

as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archiv...

2018

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2010

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview

as Himself

2009

Lucifer et moi

as (archive footage 1982)

2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Other Side of Welles

as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Well

2004

The Hitch Hiker

as Ronald Adams

2003

Rita

as (archive footage)

2002

Lost in La Mancha

as Self (archive footage)

2001

A Huey P. Newton Story

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3

as Narrator

2000

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Moby Dick

as Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archi...

1998

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Ro...

as Self - Roaster (archive footage)

1993

La Classe américaine

as Self (archive footage)

1993

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson ...

1993

Working with Orson Welles

as Himself (Archive Footage)

1990

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life i...

as Self (archive footage)

1990

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

as Self (archive footage)

1988

On the tracks of a filmmaker

as Orson Welles

1985

Orson Welles' Magic Show

as Self

1984

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael...

1984

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Work...

as Narrator

1983

The Psychic Connection

as Narrator

1983

Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Françai...

as Himself

1982

Genocide

as Narrator (voice)

1982

The Quest for Fire Adventure

as Narrator

1981

Enchanted Journey

as Pippo

1981

Filming 'The Trial'

as Self

1980

A Step Away

as English Narrator

1980

The Greenstone

as Narrator (voice)

1979

The Orson Welles Show

as Self

1977

From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural

as Narrator

1975

Bugs Bunny Superstar

as Narrator (voice)

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1975

Who's Out There?

as Host

1974

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art

as Narrator

1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a...

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973

The Battle of Sutjeska

as Winston Churchill

1973

The Cave

as Narrator

1971

London

as Winston Churchill / George Bernard Shaw

1971

Directed by John Ford

as Narrator (voice)

1971

Freedom River

as Narrator

1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden...

1970

Start the Revolution Without Me

as The Narrator

1970

A Horse Called Nijinsky

as Narrator

1969

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali

as Narrator (voice)

1969

The Merchant of Venice

as Shylock

1969

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal

as Justinian

1968

Around the World of Mike Todd

as Self - Narrator

1968

Portrait: Orson Welles

as Self

1968

Oedipus the King

as Tiresias

1968

Vienna

as Himself

1964

The Finest Hours

as Narrator (voice)

1962

Lafayette

as Benjamin Franklin

1959

High Journey

as Narrator

1958

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

as Self - Host

1955

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

as Self - Host

1950

Disorder

as Self

1946

Duel in the Sun

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Battle for Survival

as Narrator

1943

Show-Business at War

as Self

1940

Swiss Family Robinson

as Opening Narrator

2025

4'33

as (Archive footage)

2025

Human Nature in Eleven Parts

as Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (ar...

2025

The Scorpion and the Frog

as Narrator (archive footage)

2024

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters

as Self

2023

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Fals...

as Falstaff

2023

It's Pretty, but is it Art?

as Self (voiceover)

2023

Looking Back Before You Leap

as General Zaroff (voice)

2022

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

as Self (archive footage)

2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

as Self (archive footage)

2022

American: An Odyssey to 1947

as Self (archive footage)

2022

The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Well...

as Himself (Archive footage)

2021

The Real Charlie Chaplin

2021

Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles

as Self

2021

Parkinson at 50

as Self (archive footage)

2021

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil...

as (archive footage)

2018

The Other Side of the Wind

as Journalist (uncredited)

2018

The Great Buster: A Celebration

as Self (archive footage)

2017

The Magic History of Cinema

2016

Embers & Dust

as Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice)...

2015

This Is Orson Welles

as Self

2014

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work ...

as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archiv...

2014

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

as Self (archive footage)

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Keystone Kop

2013

Jodorowsky's Dune

as Self (archive footage)

2012

Magic Mirror Maze

2012

The Shadow Knows

as Self (archive footage)

2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

2011

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventur...

as Himself

2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Car...

as Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)

2007

The Deep

as Russ Brewer

2006

Edge of Outside

as Self (archive footage)

2005

Lost in "The Thinking"

as Self (archive footage)

2005

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill

as (Self)

2004

The UFO Conspiracy

as Self (archive audio)

2003

The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Heart of the Festival

2001

The Paranormal Peter Sellers

as Self (Archive footage)

2000

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote

as Self (Archive footage)

1999

According to Occam's Razor

1999

Hi-Fi

1997

It's All Brazil

as Self (archive footage)

1997

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

as Self (archive footage)

1997

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

as Self

1996

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

as Self (archive footage)

1995

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

as Self (archive footage)

1993

It's All True

as Self

1992

Don Quixote

as Self

1991

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radi...

as Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Br...

1990

Welles' Language

as Self (archive footage)

1987

Someone to Love

as Danny's Friend

1986

It's Not All True

as Himself (archive footage)

1986

The Transformers: The Movie

as Unicron (voice)

1986

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

as Self (archive footage)

1985

Almonds and Raisins

as Narrator

1985

The Dreamers

as Marcus Kleek

1984

The Road to Bresson

as Self

1984

In Our Hands

as Himself

1984

Where Is Parsifal?

as Klingsor

1984

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

as himself

1983

The Witching

as Mr. Cato

1983

King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falkla...

as Self - Narrator

1983

Notre Dame de la Croisette

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1983

Hot Money

as Sheriff Paisley

1982

Slapstick of Another Kind

as Aliens' Father (voice)

1982

Wagner e Venezia

as Richard Wagner (voice)

1982

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special La...

as Self

1982

The Orson Welles Story

as Self

1982

Baryshnikov in Hollywood

as Self - Narrator

1982

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

1982

Doug Henning's World of Magic

as Self - Special Guest

1982

Butterfly

as Judge Rauch

1982

Let Poland Be Poland

as Self

1982

Magic with the Stars

as Host

1981

A Gift of Harvest

as Narrator

1981

Brasil

as Self (archive footage)

1981

Search for the Titanic

as Himself (host)

1981

The New Deal for Artists

as Narrator (voice)

1981

History of the World: Part I

as Narrator

1981

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

as Presenter / Narrator (voice)

1980

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

as Narrator

1980

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

as J.P. Morgan

1979

The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis

as Narrator

1979

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years

as Self

1979

To Try Again... and Succeed

as Narrator (voice)

1979

The Muppet Movie

as Lew Lord

1979

The Double McGuffin

as Narrator

1979

The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man...

as Narrator

1978

Filming Othello

as Host

1978

The Biggest Battle

as Narratore

1978

The Late Great Planet Earth

as Self

1978

Mysterious Castles of Clay

as Narrator

1978

Tut: The Boy King

as Himself - Host

1978

Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Well...

as Himself

1977

It Happened One Christmas

as Henry F. Potter

1977

The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Gr...

as Narrator

1977

The Force Beyond

as Himself (archive footage)

1977

Hot Tomorrows

as Parklawn Mortuary (voice)

1977

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

as Narrator

1976

Voyage of the Damned

as José Estedes

1976

NBC: The First Fifty Years

as Self / Narrator

1976

A Mother's Tale

as Narrator

1975

Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie

as Self

1975

Magnificent Monsters of the Deep

as Narrator

1975

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

as Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)

1974

A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles

1974

And Then There Were None

as Voice on Tape

1973

Power and Corruption

as Himself

1973

Kelly Country

as Narrator

1973

F for Fake

as Self

1973

The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles

as Narrator

1972

The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Sheridan Whiteside

1972

Treasure Island

as Long John Silver

1972

Necromancy

as Mr. Cato

1972

Get to Know Your Rabbit

as Mr. Delasandro

1972

Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !

as Self

1972

Future Shock

as Narrator

1971

Ten Days' Wonder

as Théo Van Horn

1971

A Safe Place

as The Magician

1971

Sentinels of Silence

1971

Malpertuis

as Cassavius

1971

Flame of Persia

as Narrator

1970

Is It Always Right to Be Right?

as Narrator

1970

Waterloo

as Louis XVIII

1970

The Enemy Before Us

as Narrator

1970

Catch-22

as Brigadier General Dreedle

1970

The Kremlin Letter

as Bresnavitch

1970

Upon This Rock

as Michelangelo (voice)

1969

Twelve Plus One

as Markan

1969

The Battle of Neretva

as Četnik

1969

The Southern Star

as Plankett

1969

Tepepa

as Colonel Cascorro

1969

To Build a Fire

as Narrator (voice)

1968

The Fight for Rome

as Justinian

1968

House of Cards

as Leschenhaut

1968

The Immortal Story

as Charles Clay

1967

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

as Jonathan Lute

1967

Beggars Would Ride

as Narrator

1967

Disorder Is 20 Years Old

as Self

1967

Casino Royale

as Le Chiffre

1967

The Sailor from Gibraltar

as Louis de Mozambique

1967

Ten Days That Shook the World

as Narrator

1966

A Man for All Seasons

as Cardinal Wolsey

1966

Is Paris Burning?

as Konsul Nordling

1966

Orson Welles in Spain

as Himself

1965

Chimes at Midnight

as Falstaff

1965

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1965

Americans on Everest

as Narrator- Self

1965

Marco the Magnificent

as Akerman, Marco's Teacher

1965

Profile No. 6: Orson Welles

1965

A King's Story

as Narrator

1963

The V.I.P.s

as Max Buda

1963

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

as The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")

1962

River of the Ocean

as Narrator (English)

1962

The Trial

as Albert Hastler

1961

King of Kings

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1961

The Tartars

as Burundai

1960

The Battle of Austerlitz

as Robert Fulton

1960

An Arabian Night

as Storyteller

1960

Crack in the Mirror

as Hagolin / Lamerciere

1960

David and Goliath

as King Saul

1959

Ferry to Hong Kong

as Captain Hart

1959

Compulsion

as Jonathan Wilk

1958

Lords of the Forest

as Narrator (voice)

1958

The Roots of Heaven

as Cy Sedgewick

1958

The Fountain of Youth

as the narrator

1958

South Seas Adventure

as Narrator

1958

The Vikings

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1958

The Long, Hot Summer

as Will Varner

1958

Touch of Evil

as Police Captain Hank Quinlan

1957

Man in the Shadow

as Virgil Renchler

1956

Out of Darkness

as Self - Narrator

1956

Moby Dick

as Father Mapple

1955

The Land of the Basques

as Himself

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Gregory Arkadin

1955

Moby Dick Rehearsed

as An Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab

1955

Napoleon

as Sir Hudson Lowe

1955

Three Cases of Murder

as Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segme...

1954

Trouble in the Glen

as Sanin Cejador y Mengues

1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Benjamin Franklin

1953

King Lear

as King Lear

1953

Man, Beast and Virtue

as Captain Perella, the Beast

1953

Return to Glennascaul

as Narrator

1952

Trent's Last Case

as Sigsbee Manderson

1951

Othello

as Othello

1950

The Black Rose

as Bayan

1949

Prince of Foxes

as Cesare Borgia

1949

The Third Man

as Harry Lime

1949

Black Magic

as Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro

1948

Macbeth

as Macbeth

1947

The Lady from Shanghai

as Michael O'Hara

1946

The Stranger

as Prof. Charles Rankin

1946

Tomorrow Is Forever

as John Andrew MacDonald

1945

Mexico City, Old and New

as Narrator

1944

Follow the Boys

as Orson Welles (uncredited)

1944

Know Your Ally: Britain

as Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)

1943

Jane Eyre

as Edward Rochester

1943

Journey into Fear

as Colonel Haki

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Narrator (voice)

1941

Citizen Kane

as Charles Foster Kane

1937

The Spanish Earth

as Narrator (voice)

1934

The Hearts of Age

as Death

1933

Twelfth Night

as Narrator

Crew

2024

The Battle of Grovers Mill

as Original Story

2020

Hopper/Welles

as Director

2018

The Other Side of the Wind

as Screenplay

2014

Citizen Vader

as Characters

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Producer

2008

F for favor

as Original Concept

2007

The Hitchhiker

as Original Concept

2000

Moby Dick

as Editor

1999

The Big Brass Ring

as Writer

1998

The Way to Santiago

as Writer

1997

The Big Brass Ring

as Writer

1997

The Hearts of Age

as Original Concept

1992

Don Quixote

as Producer

1992

Don Quixote

as Screenplay

1992

Don Quixote

as Editor

1979

The Orson Welles Show

as Director

1976

NBC: The First Fifty Years

as Writer

1973

F for Fake

as Editor

1972

Treasure Island

as Writer

1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden...

as Producer

1969

The Merchant of Venice

as Editor

1968

The Immortal Story

as Screenplay

1965

Chimes at Midnight

as Costume Design

1962

The Trial

as Editor

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Story

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Screenplay

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Producer

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Costume Design

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Editor

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Production Design

1951

Othello

as Screenplay

1949

Portrait of a Murderer

as Writer

1949

Portrait of a Murderer

as Production Design

1948

Macbeth

as Producer

1948

Macbeth

as Costume Design

1946

The Stranger

as Co-Writer

1943

Journey into Fear

as Screenplay

1943

Journey into Fear

as Producer

1934

The Hearts of Age

as Writer

2019

Cerné par le diable

as Thanks

2019

Halston

as Theme Song Performance

2018

The Other Side of the Wind

as Director

2018

The Other Side of the Wind

as Editor

2018

Silent Times

as Thanks

2018

The Brother Side of the Wake

as Thanks

2016

Passage to Mars

as Theme Song Performance

2014

Tim May Presents Reptile

as Thanks

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Director

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Screenplay

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Editor

2012

The Debridement of Rome

as Thanks

2011

Incident at Barstow

as Thanks

2010

Variations on a High School Romance

as Thanks

2010

Dahmer vs. Gacy

as Thanks

2007

The Deep

as Director

2007

The Deep

as Producer

2007

The Deep

as Screenplay

2005

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill

as Director

2003

The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles

as Director

2002

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Screenplay

2001

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

as Thanks

2000

Moby Dick

as Theatre Play

2000

Moby Dick

as Director

1998

As Long as He Lives

as Thanks

1996

Treasury of Children's Stories

as Theme Song Performance

1994

Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poe...

as Theme Song Performance

1993

It's All True

as Director

1993

Historias Breves 0: Distant encounters

as Thanks

1992

Don Quixote

as Director

1989

Dieter & Andreas

as Thanks

1989

Continental

as Thanks

1988

Waxwork

as Thanks

1986

It's All True: Four Men on a Raft

as Director

1986

It's All True: Four Men on a Raft

as Writer

1985

The Dreamers

as Director

1985

The Dreamers

as Writer

1985

Orson Welles' Magic Show

as Director

1985

Orson Welles' Magic Show

as Writer

1985

Orson Welles' Magic Show

as Producer

1984

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

as Director

1982

Trick or Treats

as Other

1981

The War of the Worlds: Next Century

as Thanks

1981

Filming 'The Trial'

as Producer

1981

Filming 'The Trial'

as Director

1979

The Orson Welles Show

as Writer

1978

Filming Othello

as Writer

1978

Filming Othello

as Director

1975

3 A.M.

as Editorial Services

1973

F for Fake

as Director

1973

F for Fake

as Writer

1971

London

as Director

1971

London

as Writer

1971

London

as Editor

1971

Freedom River

as Producer

1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden...

as Director

1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden...

as Writer

1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden...

as Music Arranger

1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden...

as Production Design

1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden...

as Editor

1969

The Merchant of Venice

as Producer

1969

The Merchant of Venice

as Screenplay

1969

The Merchant of Venice

as Director

1968

The Immortal Story

as Director

1968

Vienna

as Director

1968

Vienna

as Writer

1968

Vienna

as Producer

1966

The Bible: In the Beginning...

as Additional Writing

1966

The Bible: In the Beginning...

as Scenario Writer

1965

Chimes at Midnight

as Director

1965

Chimes at Midnight

as Screenplay

1962

The Trial

as Screenplay

1962

The Trial

as Director

1960

Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles

as Director

1958

The Fountain of Youth

as Director

1958

The Fountain of Youth

as Producer

1958

The Fountain of Youth

as Writer

1958

The Fountain of Youth

as Production Design

1958

The Fountain of Youth

as Music Arranger

1958

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

as Director

1958

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

as Writer

1958

Touch of Evil

as Screenplay

1958

Touch of Evil

as Director

1955

The Land of the Basques

as Director

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Director

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Art Direction

1955

Moby Dick Rehearsed

as Director

1955

Moby Dick Rehearsed

as Writer

1955

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

as Director

1955

Three Cases of Murder

as Theme Song Performance

1951

Othello

as Director

1951

Othello

as Producer

1948

Macbeth

as Director

1948

Macbeth

as Screenplay

1948

Macbeth

as Set Designer

1947

The Lady from Shanghai

as Screenplay

1947

The Lady from Shanghai

as Producer

1947

The Lady from Shanghai

as Director

1947

Monsieur Verdoux

as Story

1946

The Stranger

as Director

1943

Jane Eyre

as Associate Producer

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Screenplay

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Director

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Producer

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Additional Photography

1941

Citizen Kane

as Screenplay

1941

Citizen Kane

as Director

1941

Citizen Kane

as Producer

1934

The Hearts of Age

as Director

1933

Twelfth Night

as Director

1933

Twelfth Night

as Costume Design

1933

Twelfth Night

as Adaptation

1933

Twelfth Night

as Director of Photography