Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Born 06/05/1915
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Died 10/10/1985 (70 years old)
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography (1)

Orson Welles (1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin – 1985, Hollywood) was a tragic titan of 20th century culture. Film direction was only one of the many disciplines on which this multi-talented artist left his mark. If his feature film debut Citizen Kane (1941), shot when he was a mere 25 years of age, reflected the clearest departure from established narrative and technical conventions to date, then subsequent, often misunderstood works revealed a greater endeavour to attend… (more)

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Actor

Movies
2011

Just Henry (TV movie) - a.f.

2010

Jucy - a.f.

1987

Someone to Love

1986

Transformers: The Movie

1984

Where Is Parsifal?

1983

Hot Money

1982

Baryshnikov in Hollywood (TV movie)

 

Butterfly

 

Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

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1981

History of the World: Part I

1980

Shogun (TV movie)

 

Tajna Nikole Tesle

1979

The Double McGuffin

 

The Muppet Movie

 

The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis

1978

A Woman Called Moses (TV movie)

 

Magic of David Copperfield, The (TV movie)

 

The Biggest Battle

1977

Hot Tomorrows

 

It Happened One Christmas (TV movie)

 

Some Call It Greed

1976

Voyage of the Damned

1974

Ten Little Indians

1973

The Battle of Sutjeska

1972

Get to Know Your Rabbit

 

Necromancy

 

The Man Who Came to Dinner (TV movie)

 

Treasure Island

1971

A Safe Place

 

La Décade prodigieuse

 

Malpertuis: The Legend of Doom House

1970

Catch-22

 

Start the Revolution Without Me

 

The Deep

 

The Kremlin Letter

 

Upon This Rock (TV movie)

 

Waterloo

1969

Blood and Guns

 

Fight for Rome II

 

The Battle of the River Neretva

 

The Southern Star

 

Twelve Plus One

1968

House of Cards

 

The Immortal Story (TV movie)

 

The Last Roman

1967

Casino Royale

 

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

 

Oedipus the King

 

The Sailor from Gibraltar

1966

A Man for All Seasons

 

Is Paris Burning?

1965

Falstaff

 

Marco the Magnificent

1963

Rogopag

 

The V.I.P.s

1962

La Fayette

 

The Trial

1961

King of Kings

 

The Tartars

1960

An Arabian Night

 

Crack in the Mirror

 

David and Goliath

 

Interview with Orson Welles (TV movie)

 

The Battle of Austerlitz

1959

Compulsion

 

Ferry to Hong Kong

1958

The Long, Hot Summer

 

The Roots of Heaven

 

The Vikings

 

Touch of Evil

1957

Man in the Shadow

1956

Moby Dick

 

Orson Welles and People (TV movie)

1955

Confidential Report

 

Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV movie)

 

Napoleon

 

Three Cases of Murder

1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles

 

Trouble in the Glen

1953

King Lear (TV movie)

 

L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù

1952

Othello

 

Trent's Last Case

1950

The Black Rose

1949

Black Magic

 

Prince of Foxes

 

The Third Man

1948

Macbeth

1947

The Lady from Shanghai

1946

Duel in the Sun

 

The Stranger

 

Tomorrow Is Forever

1944

Follow the Boys

1943

Jane Eyre

 

Journey Into Fear

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons - narrator

1941

Citizen Kane

1940

Swiss Family Robinson

1938

Too Much Johnson

Series
1984

Scene of the Crime

1983

Magnum, P.I.

 

The Big Blow (S03E22)

 

Birdman of Budapest (S03E16)

1982

Magnum, P.I.

 

Double Jeopardy (S02E19)

1981

Magnum, P.I.

 

J. "Digger" Doyle (S01E16)

 

Tales of the Klondike

1980

Shogun - narrator

 

Episode 5 - narrator (E05)

 

Episode 4 - narrator (E04)

 

Episode 3 - narrator (E03)

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1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

1971

Night Gallery

 

The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow (S02E05)

1956

I Love Lucy

 

Lucy Meets Orson Welles (S06E03)

1955

Ford Star Jubilee

Documentaries
2023

The Directors (series) - a.f.

 

Orson Welles - a.f. (S08E05)

2022

American: An Odyssey to 1947 - a.f.

 

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend (TV movie) - a.f.

2021

Morceaux de Cannes (TV movie) - a.f.

2020

Hopper/Welles

 

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (TV movie) - a.f.

2019

The Welles Raft - a.f.

2018

The Eyes of Orson Welles - a.f.

 

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead - a.f.

2017

Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie (TV movie) - a.f.

 

Stars of the Silver Screen (series) - a.f.

 

Orson Welles - a.f. (S07E01)

2015

Geheimnisvolle Stadt (TV movie) - a.f.

 

Orson Welles! (TV movie) - a.f.

 

Orson Welles: Shadows and Light (TV movie) - a.f.

 

The Magic History of Cinema - a.f.

2014

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles - a.f.

 

The Sixties (series) - a.f.

 

When Television Came of Age - a.f. (E01)

2013

René Clément, témoin et poète (TV movie) - a.f.

 

War of the Worlds (TV movie) - a.f.

2010

Sodankylä ikuisesti (series) - a.f.

2009

Hollywood sul Tevere - a.f.

2007

The Universe (series) - a.f.

 

Mars: The Red Planet - a.f. (S01E02)

 

Welles Angels (TV movie) - a.f.

2006

Edge of Outside

 

Searching for Orson - a.f.

2005

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History - a.f.

 

The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds' - a.f.

 

The Well - a.f.

2003

50 Greatest TV Animals (TV movie)

2001

A Huey P. Newton Story (TV movie)

 

Pulp Cinema

2000

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (TV movie) - a.f.

 

Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth (TV movie) - a.f.

 

The Dominici Affair - a.f.

1999

Best of Film Noir, The

 

Shylock

1997

Great Romances of the 20th Century (series) - a.f.

1996

Where Are All the UFO's? (TV movie)

 

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

1993

It's All True

 

John Ford (TV movie)

 

The Great Depression (series)

1992

Orson Welles: What Went Wrong?

1991

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio - a.f.

 

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

 

The Complete Citizen Kane (TV movie)

1990

Hollywood Mavericks

1988

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (TV movie)

1984

Almonds and Raisins - narrator

 

In Our Hands

 

Weg naar Bresson, De

1983

Orson Welles à la cinémathèque (TV movie)

 

The Moviemakers (series)

1982

Genocide

 

Let Poland Be Poland (TV movie) - guide

 

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (TV movie)

 

Orson Welles' The Dreamers

 

The Quest for Fire Adventure (TV movie)

1981

Search for the Titanic

1980

Sinatra: The First 40 Years (TV movie)

 

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow - narrator

1979

The Eleven Powers: The Festival of Eka Dasa Rudra (TV movie) - narrator

 

The Late Great Planet Earth

1978

Filming 'Othello'

 

NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look, Part Two (TV movie)

1977

The Force Beyond - a.f.

 

The Lions of Capitalism

1976

NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look (TV movie)

 

The New Deal for Artists (TV movie) - narrator

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

 

Bugs Bunny Superstar

 

Who's Out There?

1974

Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art, The

 

F for Fake

 

Une légende une vie : Citizen Welles (TV movie)

1973

Franklin & Jefferson Proposal Film - narrator

1972

Future Shock

1971

Centinelas del silencio

 

Directed by John Ford

 

Salvador Dalí

1968

Portrait : Orson Welles (TV movie)

1967

Around the World of Mike Todd

 

King's Story, A

 

Le Désordre a vingt ans

1966

Schwierigkeiten beim Zeigen der Wahrheit? (series)

1964

In the Land of Don Quixote (series)

 

The Finest Hours

1963

Americans on Everest (TV movie)

 

River of the Ocean

1961

Biography (series)

1959

Masters of the Congo Jungle

1958

Monitor (series)

 

South Seas Adventure

1949

Disorder

1947

Battle for Survival

1943

Show Business at War

1942

Tanks

1941

Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars

1937

The Spanish Earth

Short
2000

Moby Dick

1985

Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV movie)

1984

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

1980

Greenstone, The

1977

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1975

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (TV movie)

1971

Freedom River

 

London

1970

Is It Always Right to Be Right?

 

The Golden Honeymoon

1969

The Merchant of Venice (TV movie)

1968

Vienna

1963

Curd Cheese

1959

High Journey

1951

Return to Glennascaul

1934

The Hearts of Age

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Movies
2018

The Other Side of the Wind

Documentaries
1974

F for Fake

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