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Orson Welles

Highest Rated:
100% Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (The Lost Films of Orson Welles) (1995)
Lowest Rated:
31% Casino Royale (1967)
Birthday:
May 6, 1915
Birthplace:
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Bio:
The most well-known filmmaker to the public this side of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles was the classic example of the genius that burns bright early in life only to flicker and fade later. The prodigy son of an inventor and a musician, Welles was well-versed in literature at an early age --…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 31% - 100%
Number of Movies: 139
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2010 Stephen Romano Presents: Shock Festival
  • Actor
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2009 Churchill: The Finest Hours
  • Narrator
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2007 War of the Worlds Scandal
  • Actor
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2006 Searching for Orson
  • Actor
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2006 Directed by John Ford
  • Narrator
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2005 H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds: The Real Story
  • Actor
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2005 The Other Side of Welles (Druga strana Wellesa)
  • Actor
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2005 Brunnen (The Well)
  • Actor
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2005 H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds: An Historical Perspective of the H.G. Wells Classic Book
  • Actor
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2005 Unseen Cinema - Early American Avante-Garde Film 1894-1941
  • Director
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2004 The Hitch Hiker
  • Actor
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2004 Genocide
  • Director
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2004 Hitch Hiker
  • Actor
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2003 To Build a Fire
  • Actor
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2003 Rita
  • Actor
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2002 David & Goliath
  • Actor
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2000 Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
  • Actor
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2000 The Best of Film Noir
  • Actor
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1999 67% The Big Brass Ring
  • Screenwriter
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1999 The Dominici Affair
  • Director
  • Actor
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1999 Secrets of the Millennium - Ancient Prophecies
  • Narrator
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1999 Shylock
  • Actor
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1996 Universal Story
  • Actor
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1995 Who Is Henry Jaglom?
  • Actor
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1995 100% Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (The Lost Films of Orson Welles)
  • Actor
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1995 100% A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
  • Actor
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1993 Working with Orson Welles
  • Director
  • Actor
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1993 80% It's All True
  • Actor
  • Director
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1992 40% Don Quixote (Don Quijote de Orson Welles)
  • Director
  • Constantino Romero
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1990 Hollywood Mavericks
  • Actor
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1987 80% Someone to Love
  • Danny's Friend
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1986 47% The Transformers - The Movie
  • Actor
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1986 Hot Money
  • Sheriff Paisley
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1985 Scene Of The Crime
  • Actor
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1985 Greenstone
  • Actor
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1984 The Enchanted Journey
  • Actor
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1984 In Our Hands
  • Actor
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1984 Last Sailors
  • Actor
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1983 A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - John Huston
  • Actor
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1982 Wagner & Venice
  • Narrator
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1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
  • Alien Father
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1981 Butterfly
  • Judge Rauch
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1981 62% History of the World -- Part I
  • Narrator
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1981 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (Nostradamus)
  • Narrator
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1981 Genocide
  • Narrator
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1981 Man Who Saw Tomorrow
  • Actor
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1980 80% Shogun
  • Actor
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1979 Greatest Adventure, The - The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
  • Narrator
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1979 The Secret of Nikola Tesla
  • J.P. Morgan
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1979 The Double McGuffin
  • Narrator
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1979 90% The Muppet Movie
  • Lew Lord
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1978 A Woman Called Moses
  • Narrator
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1978 Tut:Boy King
  • Host
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1978 Late, Great Planet Earth
  • Narrator
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1978 Filming Othello
  • Director
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1977 Salvador Dali - A Soft-Self Portrait
  • Actor
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1977 Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Narrator
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1977 Tut - The Boy King
  • Actor
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1977 Lions of Capitalism, The - Great American Millionaires
  • Actor
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1976 America at the Movies
  • Actor
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1976 86% Voyage of the Damned
  • Estedes
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1975 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  • Narrator
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1975 Ein unbekannter rechnet ab (Ten Little Indians)(And Then There Were None)
  • Actor
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1975 Bugs Bunny Superstar
  • Narrator
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1975 A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - Orson Welles
  • Actor
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1973 Parables for the Present
  • Actor
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1973 85% F for Fake
  • Screenwriter
  • Himself
  • Director
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1973 Who's Out There?
  • Actor
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1972 Treasure Island
  • Long John Silver
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1972 Get to Know Your Rabbit
  • Mr. Delasandro
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1972 Necromancy (The Witching) (A Life for a Life) (Horror-Attack) (Rosemary's Disciples) (The Toy Factory)
  • Mr. Cato
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1972 Malpertuis: The Legend of Doom House
  • Cassavius
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1971 A Safe Place
  • Magician
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1971 Sentinels of Silence
  • Narrator (English)
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1971 La Décade prodigieuse (Ten Days Wonder )
  • Theo
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1970 The Kremlin Letter
  • Bresnavitch
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1970 Waterloo
  • Louis XVIII
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1970 80% Start The Revolution Without Me
  • Narrator
  • Screenwriter
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1970 Tepepa (Blood and Guns) (Long Live the Revolution)
  • Actor
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1970 87% Catch-22
  • Gen. Dreedle
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1970 12 + 1 (The 13 Chairs) (Twelve Plus One)
  • Markau
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1969 Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
  • Narrator
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1969 Bitka na Neretvi (The Battle of the River Neretva) (The Battle of Neretva)
  • Senator
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1968 89% The Immortal Story
  • Director
  • Mr. Clay
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1967 Oedipus The King
  • Actor
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1967 King's Story, A - The Love Story of the Century
  • Actor
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1967 I'll Never Forget What's'isname
  • Jonathan Lute
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1967 31% Casino Royale
  • Le Chiffre
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1967 Orson Welles
  • Actor
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1966 86% A Man for All Seasons
  • Cardinal Wolsey
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1966 92% Campanadas a medianoche (Chimes at Midnight) (Falstaff)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
  • Sir John (Jack) Falstaff
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1966 80% Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?)
  • Consul Raoul Nordling
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1964 The Finest Hours
  • Narrator
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1963 The V.I.P.s
  • Max Buda
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1963 89% Le Procès (The Trial)
  • Hastler advocate
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1962 Ro.Go.Pa.G. (RoGoPaG) (Let's Have a Brainwash)
  • Actor
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1961 83% King of Kings
  • Narrator [uncredited]
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1961 David and Goliath
  • King Saul
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1960 Crack in the Mirror
  • Hagolin@Lamorciero
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1960 Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
  • Actor
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1960 Battle of Austerlitz
  • Robert Fulton
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1959 Ferry to Hong Kong
  • Capt. Hart
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1959 100% Compulsion
  • Jonathan Wilk
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1958 71% The Vikings
  • Narrator (uncredited)
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1958 95% Touch of Evil
  • Screenwriter
  • Hank Quinlan
  • Director
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1958 The Roots of Heaven
  • Cy Sedgewick
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1958 88% The Long, Hot Summer
  • Will Varner
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1957 Man in the Shadow
  • Virgil Renchler
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1956 84% Moby Dick
  • Father Mapple
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1955 80% Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report)
  • Producer
  • Director
  • Gregory Arkadin
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1955 Three Cases of Murder
  • Lord Mountdrago [Lord Mountdrago]
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1955 Napoléon
  • Hudson Lowe
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1955 Around the World with Orson Welles
  • Actor
  • Director
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1954 Trouble in the Glen
  • Sanin Cejadory Mengues
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1954 Fabulous Versailles
  • Actor
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1953 King Lear
  • King Lear
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1952 90% The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Othello)
  • Othello
  • Director
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1952 Trent's Last Case
  • Sigsbee Manderson
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1951 Return to Glennascaul (Orson Welles' Ghost Story) (A Story That Is Told in Dublin)
  • Actor
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1951 Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo (The Little World of Don Camillo)
  • Actor
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1950 The Black Rose
  • Bayan
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1950 Toast of the Town
  • Actor
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1949 Black Magic
  • Cagliostro
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1949 Prince of Foxes
  • Cesare Borgia
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1949 100% The Third Man
  • Harry Lime
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1948 80% The Lady from Shanghai
  • Michael O'Hara
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1948 86% Macbeth
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Macbeth
  • Screenwriter
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1947 96% Monsieur Verdoux
  • Screenwriter
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1946 Tomorrow Is Forever
  • John MacDonald/Erich Kessler
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1946 95% The Stranger
  • Franz Kindler/Prof. Charles Rankin
  • Director
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1946 86% Duel in the Sun
  • Narrator
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1944 Follow Me, Boys!
  • Actor
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1944 100% Jane Eyre
  • Edward Rochester
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1942 82% Journey Into Fear
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
  • Col. Haki
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1942 96% The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Narrator
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
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1941 100% Citizen Kane
  • Charles Foster Kane
  • Producer
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1940 Swiss Family Robinson
  • Narration [uncredited]
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1934 The Hearts of Age
  • Director
  • Actor
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Avant Garde and Experimental Films
  • Director
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Quotes from Orson Welles's Characters

    1. Charles Foster Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?
    2. Jedediah Leland: The Inquirer already has.
    3. Charles Foster Kane: You long-faced, overdressed anarchist!
    4. Jedediah Leland: I am not overdressed!
    5. Charles Foster Kane: You are too! Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie.
    From Citizen Kane. Submitted by Ceara R (2 months ago)
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