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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

as Himself (archive footage)

2021
Hopper/Welles

as Self

2020
The Welles Raft

as Himself (Archive Footage)

2022
The Eyes of Orson Welles

as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)

2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

as Self (archive footage)

2018
This Is Orson Welles

as Self

2015
The Deep

as as Russ Brewer

2007
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

as Self (archive footage)

2000
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

as Self (archive footage)

1995
It's All True

as Self

1993
Working with Orson Welles

as Himself (Archive Footage)

1993
The Transformers: The Movie

as Unicron (voice)

1986
Butterfly

as Judge Rauch

1982
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

as Presenter / Narrator (voice)

1981
Shogun

as

1980
Shogun

as Narrator (voice)

1980
The Double McGuffin

as Narrator

1979
The Biggest Battle

as Narratore

1978
Tut: The Boy King

as Himself - Host

1978
Hot Tomorrows

as Parklawn Mortuary (voice)

1977
It Happened One Christmas

as Henry F. Potter

1977
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

as Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)

1975
Bugs Bunny: Superstar

as Narrator (voice)

1975
Who's Out There?

as Host

1975
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

as Self - Host

1973
Orson Welles Orson Welles

Birthday

1915-05-06

Place of Birth

Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Biography

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), 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, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios. Many of his films were heavily edited and others left unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur." After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated,[2] they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety. Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made. Several of his other films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965), and F for Fake (1974), are also widely considered to be masterpieces. In 2002, he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also an extremely well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.
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