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Orson Welles

Data di nascita: 6 maggio 1915

Luogo di nascita: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Scomparso il: 10 ottobre 1985

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 relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios. Many of his films were heavily edited and others left unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur." After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety. Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made. Several of his other films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965), and F for Fake (1974), are also widely considered to be masterpieces. In 2002, he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also an extremely well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.

Filmografia

Film e serie TV in cui Orson Welles ha recitato o preso parte

Film

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
N/D

Film · 2026

WeirdWorld
10.0

Film · Commedia · 2025

Human Nature in Eleven Parts
N/D

Film · Dramma · 2025

The Scorpion and the Frog
5.0

Film · Animazione · 2025

Othelo, O Grande
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2024

The Battle of Grovers Mill
N/D

Film · Dramma · 2024

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2024

Jim Henson Idea Man
7.8

Film · Documentario · 2024

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
N/D

Film · 2023

It's Pretty, but is it Art?
N/D

Film · Animazione · 2023

Looking Back Before You Leap
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2023

Clint Eastwood - L'Eredità Cinematografica
7.2

Film · Documentario · 2022

American: An Odyssey to 1947
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2022

Louis Armstrong: Black & Blues
6.7

Film · Documentario · 2022

A Jangada de Welles
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2022

Charlie Chaplin - Il grande comico
7.6

Film · Documentario · 2021

Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
9.0

Film · Documentario · 2021

Parkinson at 50
10.0

Film · Documentario · 2021

Morceaux de Cannes
2.0

Film · Documentario · 2021

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
7.5

Film · Documentario · 2021

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2021

Hopper/Welles
5.9

Film · Documentario · 2020

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
6.4

Film · Documentario · 2020

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2019

L'altra faccia del vento
6.7

Film · Dramma · 2018

Mi ameranno quando sarò morto
7.1

Film · Documentario · 2018

Lo sguardo di Orson Welles
7.0

Film · Documentario · 2018

Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie
7.0

Film · Documentario · 2018

Embers & Dust
6.7

Film · Fantasy · 2016

This Is Orson Welles
7.2

Film · Documentario · 2015

Il mago: l'incredibile vita di Orson Welles
6.5

Film · Documentario · 2014

Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso
N/D

Film · Storia · 2014

Jodorowsky's Dune
7.8

Film · Documentario · 2013

Magic Mirror Maze
N/D

Film · 2012

The Shadow Knows
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2012

Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
7.5

Film · Dramma · 2012

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
5.3

Film · Commedia · 2011

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
6.6

Film · Documentario · 2010

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
5.7

Film · Documentario · 2010

Hollywood sul Tevere
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2009

Lucifer et moi
7.0

Film · Commedia · 2009

The Deep
7.0

Film · Thriller · 2007

Lost in "The Thinking"
7.0

Film · Commedia · 2005

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2005

Cineastes contra magnats
6.8

Film · Documentario · 2005

Druga strana Wellesa
10.0

Film · Documentario · 2005

Brunnen
9.0

Film · Documentario · 2005

Orson Welles Uncut
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2005

The Hitch Hiker
9.0

Film · Thriller · 2004

L’Affaire Dominici par Orson Welles
6.5

Film · Documentario · 2003

Histoires de festival
6.5

Film · Documentario · 2002

Lost in La Mancha
7.0

Film · Documentario · 2002

A Huey P. Newton Story
5.4

Film · Documentario · 2001

The Paranormal Peter Sellers
6.0

Film · Documentario · 2001

NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2001

Orson Welles en el país de don Quijote
6.3

Film · Documentario · 2000

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
6.8

Film · Documentario · 2000

Moby Dick
9.0

Film · Dramma · 2000

One Man Band
8.0

Film · Commedia · 1999

According to Occam's Razor
9.0

Film · Documentario · 1999

Hi-Fi
5.0

Film · 1999

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
6.5

Film · Commedia · 1998

Tudo é Brasil
6.4

Film · Documentario · 1997

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.8

Film · Documentario · 1997

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1997

The Battle Over Citizen Kane - La sfida che segnò la storia del cinema
7.4

Film · Documentario · 1996

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
6.6

Film · Documentario · 1995

La Classe américaine
7.6

Film · Commedia · 1993

It's All True
7.6

Film · Documentario · 1993

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
6.5

Film · Documentario · 1993

Working with Orson Welles
5.8

Film · Documentario · 1993

Don Chisciotte
6.2

Film · Avventura · 1992

The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1991

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
7.6

Film · Documentario · 1991

A Linguagem de Orson Welles
7.3

Film · Documentario · 1990

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1990

On the tracks of a filmmaker
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1988

Someone to Love
5.5

Film · Commedia · 1987

Unseen Lollo
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1986

Nem Tudo É Verdade
6.9

Film · Commedia · 1986

The Transformers: The Movie
7.1

Film · Animazione · 1986

It's All True: Four Men on a Raft
N/D

Film · Avventura · 1986

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
6.4

Film · Famiglia · 1986

The Dreamers
5.0

Film · Documentario · 1985

Orson Welles' Magic Show
7.3

Film · Documentario · 1985

Almonds and Raisins
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1984

The Road to Bresson
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1984

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
9.0

Film · Documentario · 1984

C'è qualcosa di strano in famiglia
3.9

Film · Commedia · 1984

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
6.2

Film · Documentario · 1984

The Witching
N/D

Film · Horror · 1983

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
5.9

Film · Commedia · 1983

The Psychic Connection
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1983

Orson Welles à la Cinémathèque française
10.0

Film · Documentario · 1983

Notre Dame de la Croisette
7.5

Film · Dramma · 1983

Hot Money
3.8

Film · Commedia · 1983

Comiche dell'altro mondo
3.0

Film · Commedia · 1982

Wagner e Venezia
N/D

Film · 1982

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
6.0

Film · Documentario · 1982

The Orson Welles Story
9.0

Film · Documentario · 1982

Baryshnikov in Hollywood
N/D

Film · Musica · 1982

Genocide
7.6

Film · Documentario · 1982

Night of 100 Stars
6.8

Film · Commedia · 1982

Doug Henning's World of Magic
N/D

Film · Famiglia · 1982

Butterfly - Il sapore del peccato
4.8

Film · Crime · 1982

Let Poland Be Poland
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1982

Magic with the Stars
9.0

Film · Famiglia · 1982

The Quest for Fire Adventure
8.0

Film · Documentario · 1982

A Gift of Harvest
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1981

Brasil
7.5

Film · Musica · 1981

Search for the Titanic
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1981

The New Deal for Artists
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1981

La pazza storia del mondo
6.8

Film · Commedia · 1981

Filming 'The Trial'
7.4

Film · Documentario · 1981

L'uomo che vide il futuro
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1981

Il segreto di Nikola Tesla
6.2

Film · Dramma · 1980

The Greenstone
4.3

Film · Avventura · 1980

The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
7.0

Film · Dramma · 1979

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
N/D

Film · Musica · 1979

Girando Otello
7.5

Film · Documentario · 1979

Ecco il film dei Muppet
7.2

Film · Famiglia · 1979

The Double McGuffin
5.1

Film · Mistero · 1979

The Orson Welles Show
8.0

Film · televisione film · 1979

The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1979

Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1978

Il grande attacco
4.8

Film · Dramma · 1978

The Late Great Planet Earth
5.0

Film · Documentario · 1978

Mysterious Castles of Clay
6.4

Film · Documentario · 1978

Tut: The Boy King
N/D

Film · televisione film · 1978

Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1978

It Happened One Christmas
4.6

Film · televisione film · 1977

The Force Beyond
4.5

Film · Documentario · 1977

Hot Tomorrows
7.5

Film · Dramma · 1977

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
6.5

Film · televisione film · 1977

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
7.5

Film · Dramma · 1977

From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1977

La nave dei dannati
6.0

Film · Dramma · 1976

NBC: The First Fifty Years
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1976

Bugs Bunny Superstar
7.3

Film · Documentario · 1976

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
6.3

Film · Documentario · 1975

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
6.5

Film · Animazione · 1975

Who's Out There?
6.8

Film · Documentario · 1975

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
6.4

Film · Documentario · 1974

...e poi, non ne rimase nessuno
5.7

Film · Crime · 1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
7.2

Film · Documentario · 1974

F come Falso
7.4

Film · Documentario · 1973

La quinta offensiva
6.5

Film · Guerra · 1973

The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
N/D

Film · Animazione · 1973

The Cave
N/D

Film · Animazione · 1973

The Man Who Came to Dinner
7.0

Film · Commedia · 1972

L'isola del tesoro
5.9

Film · Avventura · 1972

Il potere di Satana
4.5

Film · Horror · 1972

Impara a conoscere il tuo coniglio
5.0

Film · Commedia · 1972

Malpertuis
6.4

Film · Dramma · 1972

Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1972

Dieci incredibili giorni
6.2

Film · Dramma · 1971

Un posto tranquillo
5.3

Film · Dramma · 1971

Diretto da John Ford
6.9

Film · Documentario · 1971

Centinelas del Silencio
6.9

Film · Documentario · 1971

فروغ جاودان
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1971

Freedom River
6.3

Film · Animazione · 1971

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1970

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

Film · 1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1970

An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1970

Is It Always Right to Be Right?
6.2

Film · Animazione · 1970

Waterloo
7.1

Film · Storia · 1970

Comma 22
6.7

Film · Guerra · 1970

Fate la rivoluzione senza di noi
6.0

Film · Commedia · 1970

Lettera al Kremlino
6.0

Film · Thriller · 1970

Upon This Rock
9.0

Film · televisione film · 1970

A Horse Called Nijinsky
9.5

Film · Documentario · 1970

The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
5.0

Film · Dramma · 1970

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
5.0

Film · Documentario · 1969

The Merchant of Venice
8.0

Film · Dramma · 1969

Una su 13
5.3

Film · Commedia · 1969

La battaglia della Neretva
6.8

Film · Dramma · 1969

The Southern Star
5.8

Film · Avventura · 1969

Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat
7.0

Film · Dramma · 1969

Tepepa
6.5

Film · Western · 1969

To Build a Fire
7.6

Film · Avventura · 1969

La vendetta dei barbari
5.9

Film · Avventura · 1968

Storia immortale
7.1

Film · Dramma · 1968

Il castello di carte
4.9

Film · Dramma · 1968

Around the World of Mike Todd
6.3

Film · Documentario · 1968

Portrait: Orson Welles
6.3

Film · Documentario · 1968

Oedipus the King
6.0

Film · Dramma · 1968

Vienna
6.3

Film · Documentario · 1968

I'll Never Forget What's'isname
5.4

Film · Commedia · 1967

Beggars Would Ride
N/D

Film · Crime · 1967

James Bond 007 - Casino Royale
5.3

Film · Avventura · 1967

Il marinaio del Gibilterra
5.8

Film · Dramma · 1967

Ten Days That Shook the World
6.2

Film · Documentario · 1967

The Heroine
N/D

Film · Dramma · 1967

Un uomo per tutte le stagioni
7.4

Film · Dramma · 1966

Parigi brucia?
7.2

Film · Guerra · 1966

Orson Welles in Spain
5.0

Film · Documentario · 1966

Falstaff
7.2

Film · Commedia · 1965

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1965

Le meravigliose avventure di Marco Polo
4.8

Film · Avventura · 1965

Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1965

A King's Story
6.8

Film · Storia · 1965

The Finest Hours
6.8

Film · Documentario · 1964

International Hotel
6.2

Film · Dramma · 1963

Ro.Go.Pa.G. - Laviamoci il cervello
7.2

Film · Commedia · 1963

Il processo
7.4

Film · Crime · 1962

La Fayette, una spada per due bandiere
5.9

Film · Dramma · 1962

Il re dei re
7.2

Film · Dramma · 1961

I tartari
6.0

Film · Azione · 1961

Napoleone ad Austerlitz
6.6

Film · Dramma · 1960

An Arabian Night
N/D

Film · Avventura · 1960

Crack in the Mirror
7.5

Film · Crime · 1960

Cinq colonnes à la une: Hong Kong vue par Orson Welles
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1960

David e Golia
3.8

Film · Dramma · 1960

High Journey
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1959

Passaggio a Hong Kong
5.6

Film · Avventura · 1959

Frenesia del delitto
7.1

Film · Crime · 1959

Le radici del cielo
6.2

Film · Avventura · 1958

The Fountain of Youth
6.2

Film · televisione film · 1958

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
7.3

Film · Documentario · 1958

South Seas Adventure
5.9

Film · Avventura · 1958

I vichinghi
7.0

Film · Avventura · 1958

La lunga estate calda
7.1

Film · Dramma · 1958

L'infernale Quinlan
7.8

Film · Crime · 1958

La tragedia del Rio Grande
6.7

Film · Thriller · 1957

Moby Dick - La balena bianca
7.1

Film · Avventura · 1956

The Land of the Basques
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1955

Rapporto confidenziale
6.8

Film · Mistero · 1955

Moby Dick—Rehearsed
7.0

Film · Dramma · 1955

Orson Welles' Sketch Book
6.8

Film · Documentario · 1955

Napoleone
6.3

Film · Dramma · 1955

Tre casi di omicidio
6.0

Film · Mistero · 1955

Trouble in the Glen
6.2

Film · Commedia · 1954

Versailles
6.7

Film · Dramma · 1953

King Lear
8.0

Film · televisione film · 1953

L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù
6.8

Film · Commedia · 1953

Return to Glennascaul
6.5

Film · Horror · 1953

Ritorna il terzo uomo
5.5

Film · Mistero · 1952

Otello
7.4

Film · Dramma · 1951

Désordre
5.8

Film · Documentario · 1950

La rosa nera
6.7

Film · Guerra · 1950

The Miracle of St. Anne
N/D

Film · Commedia · 1950

Il principe delle volpi
6.3

Film · Avventura · 1949

Il terzo uomo
7.9

Film · Thriller · 1949

Cagliostro
6.3

Film · Dramma · 1949

Macbeth
7.3

Film · Dramma · 1948

La signora di Shanghai
7.4

Film · Mistero · 1947

Duello al sole
6.4

Film · Western · 1946

Lo straniero
7.2

Film · Thriller · 1946

Conta solo l'avvenire
6.2

Film · Dramma · 1946

La nave della morte
5.7

Film · Musica · 1944

Know Your Ally: Britain
4.6

Film · Guerra · 1944

La porta proibita
6.9

Film · Dramma · 1943

Show-Business at War
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1943

Terrore sul Mar Nero
6.1

Film · Thriller · 1943

L'orgoglio degli Amberson
7.3

Film · Dramma · 1942

Quarto potere
8.0

Film · Mistero · 1941

Come Robinson Crusoè
5.7

Film · Avventura · 1940

Troppo Johnson
5.4

Film · Commedia · 1938

Terra di spagna
6.6

Film · Documentario · 1937

The Hearts of Age
5.4

Film · Horror · 1934

Twelfth Night
6.0

Film · Commedia · 1933

Serie TV

Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
N/D

Serie · Documentario · 2025

LIFE BEYOND
N/D

Serie · Documentario · 2019

Talking Pictures
6.2

Serie · Documentario · 2013

American Experience
6.6

Serie · Documentario · 1988

Scene of the Crime
7.0

Serie · Crime · 1985

Moonlighting
7.5

Serie · Commedia · 1985

Magnum, P.I.
7.3

Serie · Action & Adventure · 1980

Shōgun
7.6

Serie · Action & Adventure · 1980

A Woman Called Moses
7.0

Serie · Dramma · 1978

The Magic of David Copperfield
7.0

Serie · Famiglia · 1978

Cérémonie des César
4.6

Serie · News · 1976

Doug Henning's World of Magic
7.5

Serie · 1975

Dinah!
7.0

Serie · 1974

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
5.4

Serie · Commedia · 1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
6.8

Serie · Mistero · 1973

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3

Serie · Reality · 1973

Mistero in galleria
7.8

Serie · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1970

Reporter alla ribalta
7.0

Serie · Action & Adventure · 1968

The Dick Cavett Show
6.8

Serie · Talk · 1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.7

Serie · Commedia · 1968

Omnibus
7.2

Serie · Documentario · 1967

National Geographic Specials
7.1

Serie · Documentario · 1965

Nella terra di Don Chisciotte
5.2

Serie · Documentario · 1964

Hollywood and the Stars
7.5

Serie · Documentario · 1963

The Merv Griffin Show
6.6

Serie · Talk · 1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.5

Serie · Talk · 1962

Tempo
8.0

Serie · Talk · 1961

Survival
8.0

Serie · Documentario · 1961

Colgate Theatre
9.0

Serie · Dramma · 1958

The Steve Allen Show
6.2

Serie · Commedia · 1956

Cinépanorama
8.7

Serie · Documentario · 1956

Around the World with Orson Welles
7.1

Serie · Documentario · 1955

Orson Welles' Sketch Book
7.0

Serie · Talk · 1955

Reflets de Cannes
5.0

Serie · 1954

Omnibus
6.3

Serie · Talk · 1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.8

Serie · Dramma · 1951

Lucy ed io
7.9

Serie · Commedia · 1951

What's My Line?
7.0

Serie · Famiglia · 1950

The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8

Serie · Commedia · 1948

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