Orson Welles
DirectingBorn
May 6, 1915
Died
October 10, 1985
Place of Birth
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
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,…
Known For
Filmography
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