
Born
May 6, 1915
Died
October 10, 1985
Place of Birth
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
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,…

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026

WeirdWorld
2025

Human Nature in Eleven Parts
2025

The Scorpion and the Frog
2025

Othelo The Great
2024

The Battle of Grovers Mill
2024

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
2024

Jim Henson Idea Man
2024

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023

It's Pretty, but is it Art?
2023

Looking Back Before You Leap
2023

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022

American: An Odyssey to 1947
2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022

The Welles Raft
2022

The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021

Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
2021

Parkinson at 50
2021

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
2021

Hopper/Welles
2020

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
2020

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
2019

The Other Side of the Wind
2018

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018

The Eyes of Orson Welles
2018

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018
The Magic History of Cinema
2017

Embers & Dust
2016

This Is Orson Welles
2015

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014

Jodorowsky's Dune
2013

Magic Mirror Maze
2012

The Shadow Knows
2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
2011

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
2010

Hollywood sul Tevere
2009

Lucifer et moi
2009

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007

The Deep
2007

Lost in "The Thinking"
2005

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005

The Other Side of Welles
2005

The Well
2005

Orson Welles Uncut
2005

The Hitch Hiker
2004
The UFO Conspiracy
2004

The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
2003

Heart of the Festival
2002

Lost in La Mancha
2002
The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)
2002

A Huey P. Newton Story
2001

The Paranormal Peter Sellers
2001

NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
2001

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
2000

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
2000

Moby Dick
2000

One Man Band
1999

According to Occam's Razor
1999

Hi-Fi
1999

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1998

It's All Brazil
1997

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995

La Classe américaine
1993

It's All True
1993

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
1993

Working with Orson Welles
1993

Don Quixote
1992

The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
1991

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
1990

Welles' Language
1990

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990

On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988

Someone to Love
1987

Unseen Lollo
1986

It's Not All True
1986

The Transformers: The Movie
1986

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
1986

The Dreamers
1985

Orson Welles' Magic Show
1985
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
1984

Almonds and Raisins
1984

The Road to Bresson
1984

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
1984
In Our Hands
1984

Where Is Parsifal?
1984

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
1984

The Witching
1983

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
1983

The Psychic Connection
1983
King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
1983

Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
1983

Hot Money
1983

Slapstick of Another Kind
1982

Wagner e Venezia
1982

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982

The Orson Welles Story
1982

Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982

Genocide
1982

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Doug Henning's World of Magic
1982

Butterfly
1982

Let Poland Be Poland
1982

Magic with the Stars
1982

The Quest for Fire Adventure
1982

A Gift of Harvest
1981

Brasil
1981

Search for the Titanic
1981

The New Deal for Artists
1981

History of the World: Part I
1981

Filming 'The Trial'
1981

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
1981
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
1980

The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1980
A Step Away
1980

The Greenstone
1980

The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
1979

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
1979
To Try Again... and Succeed
1979

Filming Othello
1979

The Muppet Movie
1979

The Double McGuffin
1979

The Orson Welles Show
1979

The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
1979

Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
1978

The Biggest Battle
1978

The Late Great Planet Earth
1978

Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978

Tut: The Boy King
1978

Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
1978

It Happened One Christmas
1977
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
1977

The Force Beyond
1977

Hot Tomorrows
1977

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
1977

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1977

From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
1977

Voyage of the Damned
1976

NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976

Bugs Bunny Superstar
1976
A Mother's Tale
1976

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
1975
Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
1975

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
1975

Who's Out There?
1975

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
1974
A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles
1974

And Then There Were None
1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
Power and Corruption
1973
Kelly Country
1973

F for Fake
1973

The Battle of Sutjeska
1973

The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
1973

The Cave
1973

The Man Who Came to Dinner
1972

Treasure Island
1972

Necromancy
1972

Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972

Malpertuis
1972

Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
1972
Future Shock
1972

Ten Days' Wonder
1971

A Safe Place
1971

Directed by John Ford
1971

Sentinels of Silence
1971

Flame of Persia
1971

Freedom River
1971

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain
1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow
1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah
1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy
1970

Is It Always Right to Be Right?
1970

Waterloo
1970
The Enemy Before Us
1970

Catch-22
1970

Start the Revolution Without Me
1970

The Kremlin Letter
1970

Upon This Rock
1970

A Horse Called Nijinsky
1970

The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
1970

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
1969

The Merchant of Venice
1969

Twelve Plus One
1969

The Battle of Neretva
1969

The Southern Star
1969

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
1969

Tepepa
1969

To Build a Fire
1969

The Fight for Rome
1968

The Immortal Story
1968

House of Cards
1968

Around the World of Mike Todd
1968

Portrait d'Orson Welles
1968

Oedipus the King
1968

Vienna
1968

I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967

Beggars Would Ride
1967
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967

Casino Royale
1967

The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967

Ten Days That Shook the World
1967

A Man for All Seasons
1966

Is Paris Burning?
1966

Orson Welles in Spain
1966

Chimes at Midnight
1965

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
1965
Americans on Everest
1965

Marco the Magnificent
1965

Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
1965

A King's Story
1965

The Finest Hours
1964

The V.I.P.s
1963

La ricotta
1963

Ro.Go.Pa.G.
1963
River of the Ocean
1962

The Trial
1962

Lafayette
1962

King of Kings
1961

The Tartars
1961

The Battle of Austerlitz
1960

An Arabian Night
1960

Crack in the Mirror
1960

Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
1960

David and Goliath
1960

High Journey
1959

Ferry to Hong Kong
1959

Compulsion
1959
Lords of the Forest
1958

The Roots of Heaven
1958

The Fountain of Youth
1958

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958

South Seas Adventure
1958

The Vikings
1958

The Long, Hot Summer
1958

Touch of Evil
1958

Man in the Shadow
1957
Out of Darkness
1956

Moby Dick
1956
Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers
1956

The Land of the Basques
1955

Mr. Arkadin
1955

Moby Dick—Rehearsed
1955

Orson Welles' Sketch Book
1955

Napoleon
1955

Three Cases of Murder
1955

Trouble in the Glen
1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953

King Lear
1953

Man, Beast and Virtue
1953

Return to Glennascaul
1953

Trent's Last Case
1952

Othello
1951

Disorder
1950

The Black Rose
1950

The Miracle of St. Anne
1950

Prince of Foxes
1949

The Third Man
1949

Black Magic
1949

Macbeth
1948

The Lady from Shanghai
1947

Duel in the Sun
1946
Battle for Survival
1946

The Stranger
1946

Tomorrow Is Forever
1946
Mexico City, Old and New
1945

Follow the Boys
1944

Know Your Ally: Britain
1944

Jane Eyre
1943

Show-Business at War
1943

Journey into Fear
1943

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942

Citizen Kane
1941

Swiss Family Robinson
1940
The Green Goddess
1939

Too Much Johnson
1938

The Spanish Earth
1937

The Hearts of Age
1934

Twelfth Night
1933
Something Else
Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee

Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
2025

LIFE BEYOND
2019

Talking Pictures
2013

American Experience
1988

Scene of the Crime
1985

Moonlighting
1985
Tales of the Klondike
1981

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Shōgun
1980

A Woman Called Moses
1978

The Magic of David Copperfield
1978

Cérémonie des César
1976

Doug Henning's World of Magic
1975

Dinah!
1974

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
The Silent Years
1971
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971

Night Gallery
1970

The Name of the Game
1968

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

Omnibus
1967

National Geographic Specials
1965

In the Land of Don Quixote
1964

Hollywood and the Stars
1963

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Tempo
1961

Survival
1961

Colgate Theatre
1958

The Steve Allen Show
1956

Cinépanorama
1956

Around the World with Orson Welles
1955
Ford Star Jubilee
1955

Orson Welles' Sketch Book
1955

Reflets de Cannes
1954

Omnibus
1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

I Love Lucy
1951

What's My Line?
1950

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948