Orson Welles
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1915-05-06 (70 years old)
Deathday
1985-10-10
Place of Birth
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Also known As
Джордж Орсон Уэллс
George Orson Welles
O. W. Jeeves
오슨 웰스
오슨 웰즈
오손 웰스
اورسون ولز
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 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 featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, un...
Acting
1941
as Charles Foster Kane
1966
as Cardinal Wolsey
1942
as Narrator (voice)
1965
as Falstaff
1949
as Harry Lime
1958
as Police Captain Hank Quinlan
1981
as Narrator
1962
as Albert Hastler
1969
as Markan
1986
as Unicron (voice)
1956
as Father Mapple
1970
as Brigadier General Dreedle
1947
as Michael O'Hara
1966
as Konsul Nordling
1946
as Prof. Charles Rankin
1974
as Voice on Tape
1968
as Leschenhaut
1943
as Colonel Haki
1972
as Long John Silver
2007
as Russ Brewer
1965
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1943
as Edward Rochester
1992
as Self
1990
as Self (archive footage)
1997
1967
as Le Chiffre
1970
as Louis XVIII
1944
as Orson Welles (uncredited)
1969
as Četnik
1975
as Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
1948
as Macbeth
1982
as Judge Rauch
1958
as Will Varner
1959
as Jonathan Wilk
1972
as Mr. Cato
2022
as Himself (Archive footage)
1958
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1973
as Self
1955
as Sir Hudson Lowe
1963
as Max Buda
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1950
as Bayan
1969
as Plankett
1949
as Cesare Borgia
1955
as Gregory Arkadin
1946
as John Andrew MacDonald
1955
as Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
1970
as Bresnavitch
2014
as Self (archive footage)
1971
as Cassavius
1951
as Othello
1981
as Presenter / Narrator (voice)
1954
as Benjamin Franklin
1995
as Self (archive footage)
1978
as Narratore
2003
as Self (archive footage)
1969
as Colonel Cascorro
1980
as J.P. Morgan
1982
as Aliens' Father (voice)
1971
as The Magician
1977
as Parklawn Mortuary (voice)
1952
as Sigsbee Manderson
1971
as Théo Van Horn
1968
as Charles Clay
2019
as (archive footage)
1978
as Self
1976
as José Estedes
1960
as King Saul
1949
as Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
1993
as Self
1959
as Captain Hart
1963
as The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
2021
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1972
as Narrator
1972
as Mr. Delasandro
1958
as the narrator
1977
as Himself (archive footage)
1937
as Narrator (voice)
1983
as Mr. Cato
1965
as Akerman, Marco's Teacher
1977
as Henry F. Potter
1978
as Host
1978
as Narrator
1967
as Jonathan Lute
1954
as Sanin Cejador y Mengues
1984
as Klingsor
1953
as Narrator
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1984
as Self
2021
as Self (archive footage)
2013
as Keystone Kop
1961
as Burundai
1970
as Narrator
1983
as Sheriff Paisley
1953
as Captain Perella, the Beast
1987
as Danny's Friend
1968
as Justinian
1982
as Host
1973
as Narrator
1953
as King Lear
2000
as Self (Archive footage)
1977
as Narrator
2021
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
as Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)
2006
as Self (archive footage)
1967
as Louis de Mozambique
1985
as Marcus Kleek
2011
1958
as Cy Sedgewick
1960
as Hagolin / Lamerciere
1969
as Narrator (voice)
1966
as Himself
1957
as Virgil Renchler
1979
as Lew Lord
2012
as (archive footage)
1996
as Self (archive footage)
1986
as Self (archive footage)
2023
as General Zaroff (voice)
1967
as Narrator
2023
as Self (voiceover)
2014
as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
1971
as Narrator
2018
as Journalist (uncredited)
2001
as Self (Archive footage)
1965
as Narrator
1984
as himself
1970
as Michelangelo (voice)
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1978
as Himself - Host
2015
as Self
1934
as Death
2013
as Self (archive footage)
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1933
as Narrator
2012
as Self (archive footage)
1968
as Himself
2009
as (archive footage 1982)
1940
as Opening Narrator
1969
as Shylock
1988
as Orson Welles
1975
as Host
2024
as Self (archive footage)
2024
as Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)
1980
as English Narrator
1984
2000
as Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985
as Self
1962
as Benjamin Franklin
1981
as Self
1964
as Narrator (voice)
1968
as Self
1971
as Narrator (voice)
1990
as Self (archive footage)
1968
as Tiresias
1970
as The Narrator
1969
as Narrator (voice)
1969
as Justinian
1971
as Narrator
1990
as Self (archive footage)
1971
as Winston Churchill / George Bernard Shaw
2001
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
1977
as Narrator
2002
as Self (archive footage)
1943
as Self
1975
as Self (archive footage)
2001
as Narrator
1946
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2003
as (archive footage)
1970
as Narrator
1979
as Self
1950
as Self
1980
as Narrator (voice)
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1982
as Narrator
1993
as Himself (Archive Footage)
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1975
as Narrator (voice)
1981
as Pippo
2000
as Self (archive footage)
2018
as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
2004
as Ronald Adams
1973
as Winston Churchill
2022
as Himself (Archive Footage)
1959
as Narrator
2010
as Himself
1968
as Self - Narrator
1993
as Self (archive footage)
1946
as Narrator
1983
2005
as Self (archive footage)
2020
as Self
1973
as Narrator
2018
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
1974
as Narrator
1998
as Self - Roaster (archive footage)
1982
as Narrator (voice)
1958
as Self - Host
1955
as Self - Host
1983
as Narrator
1979
1983
as Self - Narrator
1982
as Self - Narrator
1956
as Self - Narrator
1960
as Robert Fulton
1982
1967
as Self
1975
1982
as Self - Special Guest
1982
as Self
2016
as Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1958
as Narrator
1962
as Narrator (English)
1945
as Narrator
1958
as Narrator (voice)
1944
as Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)
1960
as Storyteller
1986
as Himself (archive footage)
1977
as Narrator
1979
as Narrator (voice)
1970
as Narrator
1972
as Sheridan Whiteside
1979
as Narrator
1973
as Narrator
1979
as Narrator
1973
as Himself
1981
as Himself (host)
1984
as Himself
1975
as Narrator
1985
as Narrator
1976
as Self / Narrator
1981
as Narrator (voice)
1981
as Narrator
1982
as Richard Wagner (voice)
1980
as Narrator
1972
1981
as Self (archive footage)
2010
as Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)
1978
1955
as Himself
2021
as Self (archive footage)
1967
as Narrator
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1982
as Self
2024
2025
as Narrator (archive footage)
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1991
as Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
2025
as Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)
1965
as Narrator- Self
2005
as (Self)
1999
2004
as Self (archive audio)
1961
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1955
as An Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab
-
as Narrator
1982
as Self
2025
as (Archive footage)
1976
as Narrator
Production
1941
as Screenplay
1941
as Director
1941
as Producer
1942
as Screenplay
1942
as Director
1942
as Producer
1965
as Director
1965
as Screenplay
1958
as Screenplay
1958
as Director
1962
as Screenplay
1962
as Director
1975
as Editorial Services
1955
as Director
1946
as Director
1947
as Screenplay
1947
as Producer
1992
as Director
1948
as Director
1973
as Director
1955
as Director
1951
as Director
1958
as Director
1934
as Director
1958
1968
as Director
1958
as Director
1958
as Producer
1958
as Writer
1958
as Production Design
1986
as Director
1986
as Writer
1968
as Director
1993
as Director
1978
as Writer
1978
as Director
2002
as Screenplay
2013
as Director
1971
as Producer
2003
as Director
1973
as Writer
2018
as Director
2018
as Editor
1985
as Director
1985
as Writer
1984
as Director
2007
as Director
2007
as Producer
2007
as Screenplay
1968
as Writer
1969
as Producer
1969
as Screenplay
1969
as Director
1960
as Director
1966
as Additional Writing
1942
as Additional Photography
2000
as Theatre Play
2000
as Director
1982
as Other
1951
as Producer
1985
as Director
1985
as Writer
1981
as Producer
1981
as Director
1993
1933
as Director
1933
as Costume Design
1933
as Adaptation
1933
as Director of Photography
1966
as Scenario Writer
1943
as Associate Producer
1971
as Director
1970
1971
as Writer
1970
1947
as Story
2024
as Original Story
1948
as Screenplay
1948
as Producer
1948
as Costume Design
1943
as Screenplay
1943
as Producer
1979
as Director
1999
as Writer
1934
as Writer
2020
as Director
1972
as Writer
1949
as Writer
1955
as Story
1955
as Screenplay
1946
as Co-Writer
1951
as Screenplay
1955
as Producer
1955
as Costume Design
1955
as Editor
1955
as Production Design
1992
as Producer
1992
as Screenplay
1965
as Costume Design
1992
as Editor
1968
as Screenplay
1998
as Writer
-
as Original Concept
2018
as Screenplay
1997
as Writer
2000
as Editor
1997
as Original Concept
2014
as Characters
1976
as Writer
1973
as Editor
1962
as Editor
2007
as Original Concept
2008
as Original Concept
1949
as Production Design
2013
as Producer
1969
as Editor
1970
1970
as Music Arranger
2013
as Screenplay
2013
as Editor
1958
as Music Arranger
1970
as Production Design
1985
as Producer
1970
1971
as Editor
1968
as Producer
1979
as Writer
1955
as Theme Song Performance
1988
as Thanks
2018
as Thanks
1948
as Set Designer
2011
as Thanks
1996
as Theme Song Performance
2010
as Thanks
1989
as Thanks
1989
as Thanks
1994
as Theme Song Performance
2001
as Thanks
2019
as Theme Song Performance
2014
as Thanks
1955
as Art Direction
1981
as Thanks
2010
as Thanks
2012
as Thanks
1998
as Thanks
2018
as Thanks
2016
as Theme Song Performance
2019
as Thanks
1955
as Director
2005
as Director
1947
as Director
1955
as Director
1955
as Writer
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