Orson Welles
Directing
Born: 1915-05-06 · Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1985-10-10
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, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relat
🎬 Movies (20)
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026
Self / The Director / Sir John Falstaff (archive footage) (uncredited)
WeirdWorld
2025
Troy2000 (Archive footage)
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
2025
Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)
The Scorpion and the Frog
2025
Narrator (archive footage)
Othelo The Great
2024
Self (archive footage)
The Battle of Grovers Mill
2024
Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
2024
Self
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
Self (archive footage)
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023
Falstaff
It's Pretty, but is it Art?
2023
Self (voiceover)
Looking Back Before You Leap
2023
General Zaroff (voice)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
Self (archive footage)
American: An Odyssey to 1947
2022
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
Self (archive footage)
The Welles Raft
2022
Himself (Archive Footage)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
Self (archive footage)
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
2021
Self
Parkinson at 50
2021
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
📺 TV Shows (20)
Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
2025
Self (archive footage)
LIFE BEYOND
2019
Self (voice)
Talking Pictures
2013
Self (archive footage)
American Experience
1988
Self (archive footage)
Scene of the Crime
1985
Moonlighting
1985
Orson Welles
Tales of the Klondike
1981
Narrator
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Robin Masters (voice)
Shōgun
1980
Narrator
A Woman Called Moses
1978
Narrator (voice)
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
Host
Cérémonie des César
1976
Self - President
Doug Henning's World of Magic
1975
Self
Dinah!
1974
Self
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
Self
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Self - Host
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Self
The Silent Years
1971
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
Self
Night Gallery
1970
Narrator