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Known Credits 263

Gender Male

Birthdate 1915-05-06 (110 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known For Джордж Орсон УэллсGeorge Orson WellesO. W. Jeeves오슨 웰스오슨 웰즈오손 웰스اورسون ولز

Orson Welles

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 ...

Known For

Othelo The Great

The Battle of Grovers Mill

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters

Jim Henson Idea Man

LIFE BEYOND: Visions of Alien Life

Acting

2024 -- Othelo The Great | Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)

2024 -- The Battle of Grovers Mill | Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)

2024 -- Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters | Self

2024 -- Jim Henson Idea Man | Self (archive footage)

2024 -- LIFE BEYOND: Visions of Alien Life | Narrator (Archive Sound)

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

2023 -- It's Pretty, but is it Art? | Self (voiceover)

2023 -- Looking Back Before You Leap | General Zaroff (voice)

2022 -- Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | Self (archive footage)

2022 -- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage)

2022 -- American: An Odyssey to 1947 | Self (archive footage)

2022 -- The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons | Himself (Archive footage)

2022 -- The Welles Raft | Himself (Archive Footage)

2021 -- Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles | Self

2021 -- Parkinson at 50 | Self (archive footage)

2021 -- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021 -- The Blinding of Isaac Woodard | Self (archive footage)

2020 -- Hopper/Welles | Self

2020 -- Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind | Self (archive footage)

2019 -- LIFE BEYOND I: The Dawn | Narrator

2019 -- Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" | (archive footage)

2018 -- The Other Side of the Wind | Journalist (uncredited)

2018 -- The Great Buster: A Celebration | Self (archive footage)

2018 -- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage)

2018 -- The Eyes of Orson Welles | Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)

2018 -- Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2017 -- The Magic History of Cinema |

2016 -- Embers & Dust | Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)

2015 -- This Is Orson Welles | Self

2014 -- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)

2014 -- Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance | Self (archive footage)

2013 -- Too Much Johnson | Keystone Kop

2013 -- Jodorowsky's Dune | Self (archive footage)

2012 -- Magic Mirror Maze |

2012 -- The Shadow Knows | Self (archive footage)

2012 -- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage)

2011 -- Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure | Himself

2010 -- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)

2010 -- Orson Welles: The Paris Interview | Himself

2009 -- Lucifer et moi | (archive footage 1982)

2007 -- The Deep | Russ Brewer

2006 -- Edge of Outside | Self (archive footage)

2005 -- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self (archive footage)

2005 -- The Other Side of Welles | Self (archive footage)

2005 -- The Well |

2004 -- The Hitch Hiker | Ronald Adams

2003 -- Rita | (archive footage)

2003 -- The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles | Self (archive footage)

2002 -- Lost in La Mancha | Self (archive footage)

2001 -- A Huey P. Newton Story | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001 -- NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3 | Narrator

2001 -- The Paranormal Peter Sellers | Self (Archive footage)

2000 -- Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote | Self (Archive footage)

2000 -- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | Self (archive footage)

2000 -- Moby Dick | Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)

1999 -- According to Occam's Razor |

1998 -- The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts | Self - Roaster (archive footage)

1997 -- It's All Brazil | Self (archive footage)

1997 -- Who Is Henry Jaglom? | Self (archive footage)

1997 -- Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional | Self

1996 -- The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Self (archive footage)

1995 -- Orson Welles: The One-Man Band | Self (archive footage)

1993 -- La Classe américaine | Self (archive footage)

1993 -- It's All True | Self

1993 -- Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles |

1993 -- Working with Orson Welles | Himself (Archive Footage)

1992 -- Don Quixote | Self

1990 -- With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film | Self (archive footage)

1990 -- Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream | Self (archive footage)

1990 -- Welles' Language | Self (archive footage)

1988 -- On the tracks of a filmmaker | Orson Welles

1987 -- Someone to Love | Danny's Friend

1986 -- It's Not All True | Himself (archive footage)

1986 -- The Transformers: The Movie | Unicron (voice)

1986 -- The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years | Self (archive footage)

1985 -- Almonds and Raisins | Narrator

1985 -- The Dreamers | Marcus Kleek

1985 -- Orson Welles' Magic Show | Self

1984 -- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon |

1984 -- The Road to Bresson | Self

1984 -- The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail | Narrator

1984 -- In Our Hands | Himself

1984 -- The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh | himself

1984 -- Where Is Parsifal? | Klingsor

1983 -- The Witching | Mr. Cato

1983 -- The Psychic Connection | Narrator

1983 -- King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands | Self - Narrator

1983 -- Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française | Himself

1983 -- Notre Dame de la Croisette | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1983 -- Hot Money | Sheriff Paisley

1982 -- Slapstick of Another Kind | Aliens' Father (voice)

1982 -- Wagner e Venezia | Richard Wagner (voice)

1982 -- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady | Self

1982 -- Baryshnikov in Hollywood | Self - Narrator

1982 -- Genocide | Narrator (voice)

1982 -- Night of 100 Stars | Self

1982 -- Doug Henning's World of Magic | Self - Special Guest

1982 -- Butterfly | Judge Rauch

1982 -- Let Poland Be Poland | Self

1982 -- Magic with the Stars | Host

1982 -- The Quest for Fire Adventure | Narrator

1981 -- A Gift of Harvest | Narrator

1981 -- Brasil | Self (archive footage)

1981 -- Search for the Titanic | Himself (host)

1981 -- The Enchanted Journey | Pippo

1981 -- The New Deal for Artists | Narrator (voice)

1981 -- History of the World: Part I | Narrator

1981 -- Filming 'The Trial' | Self

1981 -- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow | Presenter / Narrator (voice)

1980 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park | Narrator

1980 -- The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla | J.P. Morgan

1980 -- A Step Away | English Narrator

1980 -- The Greenstone | Narrator (voice)

1979 -- The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis | Narrator

1979 -- Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years | Self

1979 -- To Try Again... and Succeed | Narrator (voice)

1979 -- The Muppet Movie | Lew Lord

1979 -- The Double McGuffin | Narrator

1979 -- The Orson Welles Show | Self

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

1978 -- Filming Othello | Host

1978 -- The Biggest Battle | Narratore

1978 -- The Late Great Planet Earth | Self

1978 -- Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles | Himself

1978 -- Tut: The Boy King | Himself - Host

1978 -- Mysterious Castles of Clay | Narrator

1977 -- It Happened One Christmas | Henry F. Potter

1977 -- The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed | Narrator

1977 -- The Force Beyond | Himself (archive footage)

1977 -- Hot Tomorrows | Parklawn Mortuary (voice)

1977 -- From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural | Narrator

1977 -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Narrator

1976 -- Voyage of the Damned | José Estedes

1976 -- NBC: The First Fifty Years | Self / Narrator

1975 -- Bugs Bunny Superstar | Narrator (voice)

1975 -- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage)

1975 -- Orson Welles - The Marketed Genius | Self

1975 -- Magnificent Monsters of the Deep | Narrator

1975 -- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)

1975 -- Who's Out There? | Host

1974 -- The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art | Narrator

1974 -- A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles |

1974 -- And Then There Were None | Voice on Tape

1974 -- Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973 -- Power and Corruption | Himself

1973 -- Kelly Country | Narrator

1973 -- F for Fake | Self

1973 -- The Battle of Sutjeska | Winston Churchill

1973 -- The Cave | Narrator

1973 -- The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles | Narrator

1972 -- The Man Who Came to Dinner | Sheridan Whiteside

1972 -- Treasure Island | Long John Silver

1972 -- Necromancy | Mr. Cato

1972 -- Get to Know Your Rabbit | Mr. Delasandro

1972 -- Future Shock | Narrator

1972 -- Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! |

1971 -- London | Winston Churchill / George Bernard Shaw

1971 -- Ten Days' Wonder | Théo Van Horn

1971 -- A Safe Place | The Magician

1971 -- Directed by John Ford | Narrator (voice)

1971 -- Centinelas del Silencio |

1971 -- Flame of Persia | Narrator

1971 -- Malpertuis | Cassavius

1971 -- Freedom River | Narrator

1970 -- An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon |

1970 -- Is It Always Right to Be Right? | Narrator

1970 -- Waterloo | Louis XVIII

1970 -- The Enemy Before Us | Narrator

1970 -- Catch-22 | Brigadier General Dreedle

1970 -- Start the Revolution Without Me | The Narrator

1970 -- The Kremlin Letter | Bresnavitch

1970 -- A Horse Called Nijinsky | Narrator

1970 -- Upon This Rock | Michelangelo (voice)

1969 -- Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali | Narrator (voice)

1969 -- The Merchant of Venice | Shylock

1969 -- The Battle of Neretva | Četnik

1969 -- Twelve Plus One | Markan

1969 -- The Southern Star | Plankett

1969 -- The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal | Justinian

1969 -- Tepepa | Colonel Cascorro

1969 -- To Build a Fire | Narrator (voice)

1968 -- The Fight for Rome | Justinian

1968 -- House of Cards | Leschenhaut

1968 -- Around the World of Mike Todd | Self - Narrator

1968 -- Oedipus the King | Tiresias

1968 -- Portrait: Orson Welles | Self

1968 -- The Immortal Story | Charles Clay

1968 -- Vienna | Himself

1967 -- I'll Never Forget What's'isname | Jonathan Lute

1967 -- Beggars Would Ride | Narrator

1967 -- Disorder Is 20 Years Old | Self

1967 -- Casino Royale | Le Chiffre

1967 -- Ten Days That Shook the World | Narrator

1967 -- The Sailor from Gibraltar | Louis de Mozambique

1966 -- A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey

1966 -- Is Paris Burning? | Konsul Nordling

1966 -- Orson Welles in Spain | Himself

1965 -- Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees | Self - Narrator (voice)

1965 -- Chimes at Midnight | Falstaff

1965 -- Marco the Magnificent | Akerman, Marco's Teacher

1965 -- A King's Story | Narrator

1964 -- The Finest Hours | Narrator (voice)

1963 -- The V.I.P.s | Max Buda

1963 -- Ro.Go.Pa.G. | The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")

1962 -- The Trial | Albert Hastler

1962 -- River of the Ocean | Narrator (English)

1962 -- Lafayette | Benjamin Franklin

1961 -- King of Kings | Narrator (Voice)

1961 -- The Tartars | Burundai

1960 -- The Battle of Austerlitz | Robert Fulton

1960 -- An Arabian Night | Storyteller

1960 -- Crack in the Mirror | Hagolin / Lamerciere

1960 -- David and Goliath | King Saul

1959 -- High Journey | Narrator

1959 -- Ferry to Hong Kong | Captain Hart

1959 -- Compulsion | Jonathan Wilk

1958 -- Lords of the Forest | Narrator (voice)

1958 -- The Roots of Heaven | Cy Sedgewick

1958 -- The Fountain of Youth | the narrator

1958 -- Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina | Self - Host

1958 -- South Seas Adventure | Narrator

1958 -- The Vikings | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1958 -- The Long, Hot Summer | Will Varner

1958 -- Touch of Evil | Police Captain Hank Quinlan

1957 -- Man in the Shadow | Virgil Renchler

1956 -- Out of Darkness | Self - Narrator

1956 -- Moby Dick | Father Mapple

1955 -- The Land of the Basques | Himself

1955 -- Mr. Arkadin | Gregory Arkadin

1955 -- Orson Welles' Sketch Book | Self - Host

1955 -- Napoleon | Sir Hudson Lowe

1955 -- Three Cases of Murder | Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)

1954 -- Trouble in the Glen | Sanin Cejador y Mengues

1954 -- Royal Affairs in Versailles | Benjamin Franklin

1953 -- King Lear | King Lear

1953 -- Man, Beast and Virtue | Captain Perella, the Beast

1953 -- Return to Glennascaul | Narrator

1952 -- Trent's Last Case | Sigsbee Manderson

1951 -- Othello | Othello

1950 -- Disorder | Self

1950 -- The Black Rose | Bayan

1949 -- Prince of Foxes | Cesare Borgia

1949 -- The Third Man | Harry Lime

1949 -- Black Magic | Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro

1948 -- Macbeth | Macbeth

1947 -- The Lady from Shanghai | Michael O'Hara

1946 -- Duel in the Sun | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1946 -- Battle for Survival | Narrator

1946 -- The Stranger | Prof. Charles Rankin

1946 -- Tomorrow Is Forever | John Andrew MacDonald

1945 -- Mexico City, Old and New | Narrator

1944 -- Follow the Boys | Orson Welles (uncredited)

1944 -- Know Your Ally: Britain | Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)

1943 -- Jane Eyre | Edward Rochester

1943 -- Show-Business at War | Self

1943 -- Journey into Fear | Colonel Haki

1942 -- The Magnificent Ambersons | Narrator (voice)

1941 -- Citizen Kane | Charles Foster Kane

1940 -- Swiss Family Robinson | Opening Narrator

1937 -- The Spanish Earth | Narrator (voice)

1934 -- The Hearts of Age | Death

1933 -- Twelfth Night | Narrator