Regisseur
Orson Welles
Geboren 6 mei 1915 · Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA · Overleden 10 oktober 1985
George Orson Welles (6 mei 1915 – 10 oktober 1985) was een Amerikaanse filmregisseur, acteur, theaterregisseur, scenarioschrijver en producent, die uitgebreid werkte in film, theater, televisie en radio. Welles, bekend om zijn innovatieve dramatische producties en zijn kenmerkende stem en persoonlijkheid, wordt algemeen erkend als een van de meest bekwame dramatische kunstenaars van de twintigste eeuw, vooral vanwege zijn belangrijke en invloedrijke vroege werk—ondanks zijn beruchte conflictueuze relatie met Hollywood. Zijn kenmerkende regiestijl kenmerkte zich door gelaagde, niet-lineaire vertelvormen, innovatieve belichtingsgebruik zoals clair-obscur, unieke camerahoeken, geluidstechnieken geleend van radio, diepe scherpte shots en lange takes. Welles' lange carrière in de film staat bekend om zijn strijd om artistieke controle onder druk van studio's. Veel van zijn films werden zwaar gemonteerd en andere bleven niet uitgebracht. Hij wordt geprezen als een grote creatieve kracht en als "de ultieme auteur." Na het regisseren van een aantal hooggeprofileerde theaterproducties in zijn vroege twintiger jaren, waaronder een innovatieve bewerking van Macbeth en The Cradle Will Rock, verwierf Welles nationale en internationale faam als regisseur en verteller van een radiobewerking uit 1938 van H. G. Wells' roman The War of the Worlds, uitgevoerd voor de radiodramaserie Mercury Theatre on the Air. Er werd gemeld dat het tot wijdverspreide paniek leidde toen luisteraars dachten dat er een invasie door buitenaardse wezens plaatsvond. Hoewel deze paniekberichten meestal vals en overdreven waren, brachten ze Welles direct tot een ramp. Citizen Kane (1941), zijn eerste film met RKO, waarin hij de rol van Charles Foster Kane speelde, wordt vaak beschouwd als de beste film ooit gemaakt. Verschillende van zijn andere films, waaronder The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965) en F for Fake (1974), worden ook algemeen beschouwd als meesterwerken. In 2002 werd hij in twee afzonderlijke peilingen van het British Film Institute onder regisseurs en critici verkozen tot de beste filmregisseur aller tijden, en een brede enquête van kritische consensus, best-of-lijsten en historische retrospectieven noemt hem de meest geprezen regisseur aller tijden. Andrew Sarris nam hem in zijn invloedrijke boek over filmkritiek The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 op in het "pantheon" van de 14 grootste filmregisseurs die in de Verenigde Staten hadden gewerkt. Welles stond bekend om zijn baritonstem, was ook een zeer gewaardeerde acteur en werd verkozen tot nummer 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars, lijst van de grootste Amerikaanse filmacteurs aller tijden. Hij was ook een gevierd Shakespeare-toneelacteur en een begaafd goochelaar, die in de oorlogsjaren in troepenvariétéshows speelde.
Films en series
- 2028
Charmed Lives: A Family RomanceSelf (archive footage) - 2026
War of the Worlds1unarrator - 2026
The Making Of32mSelf (archival) - 2025
The Scorpion and the Frog1mNarrator (archive footage) - 2025
WeirdWorld22mTroy2000 (Archive footage) - 2025
Human Nature in Eleven Parts27mNarrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage) - 2024
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters1u 15mSelf - 2024
The Battle of Grovers Mill10mRadio Host (voice) (archival footage) - 2024
Othelo The Great1u 23mSelf (archive footage) - 2024
Jim Henson Idea Man1u 48mSelf (archive footage) - 2023
It's Pretty, but is it Art?3mSelf (voiceover) - 2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight5mFalstaff - 2023
Looking Back Before You Leap1u 3mGeneral Zaroff (voice) - 2022
The Welles Raft1u 15mHimself (Archive Footage) - 2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend1u 18mSelf (archive footage) - 2022
American: An Odyssey to 19471u 42mSelf (archive footage) - 2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues1u 44mSelf (archive footage) - 2021
My Guest is Orson Welles43m - 2021
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles19mSelf - 2021
Parkinson at 5058mSelf (archive footage) - 2021
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard1u 52mSelf (archive footage) - 2020
Hopper/Welles2u 11mSelf - 2019
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"5m(archive footage) - 2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead1u 38mSelf (archive footage) - 2018
The Eyes of Orson Welles1u 51mSelf - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage) - 2018
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit54mSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage) - 2018
The Other Side of the Wind2u 2mDirector - 2017The Magic History of Cinema1u 25m
- 2016
Embers & Dust11mProfessor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound) - 2015
This Is Orson Welles52mSelf - 2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance58mSelf (archive footage) - 2014Citizen Vader5mCharacters
- 2013
Too Much Johnson1u 7mKeystone Kop - 2013
Jodorowsky's Dune1u 27mSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage) - 2012
Magic Mirror Maze5m - 2012
The Shadow Knows2u 4mSelf (archive footage) - 2011
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure1u 30mSelf - 2010
Orson Welles: The Paris Interview57mHimself - 2010
Jucy1u 30mElephant Lamp (archive sound) - 2009
Lucifer et moi(archive footage 1982) - 2008F for favor2mOriginal Concept
- 2007
The Deep1u 51mRuss Brewer - 2007
The Hitchhiker1u 23mOriginal Concept - 2005
Orson Welles Uncut26m - 2005
The Well1u 45m - 2005
Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill1u 2m(Self) - 2005
The Other Side of Welles1u 7mSelf (archive footage) - 2005
Lost in "The Thinking"35mSelf (archive footage) - 2004
The Hitch Hiker28mRonald Adams - 2004The UFO Conspiracy1u 11mSelf (archive sound)
- 2003
The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles52mSelf (archive footage) - 2002
Filming 'The Trial'1u 22mSelf - 2002
The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)4mArchival Footage - 2002
Heart of the Festival26mSelf (archive footage) - 2002
Lost in La Mancha1u 33mSelf (archive footage) - 2002
The Magnificent Ambersons2u 30mOriginal Film Writer - 2001
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 31u 30mNarrator - 2001
A Huey P. Newton Story1u 26mSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) - 2000
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote1u 32mSelf (Archive footage) - 2000
Moby Dick22mCaptain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage) - 2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces1u 25mSelf (archive footage) - 1999
One Man Band29mPresenter / Various - 1999
According to Occam's Razor1u 36m - 1999
Hi-Fi8m - 1998
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsSelf - Roaster (archive footage) - 1998The Way to Santiago20mWriter
- 1997
It's All Brazil1u 22mSelf (archive footage) - 1997The Hearts of Age10mOriginal Concept
- 1997
The Big Brass Ring7mWriter - 1996
The Battle Over Citizen Kane1u 48mSelf (archive footage) - 1995
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band1u 28mSelf (archive footage) - 1993
Working with Orson Welles1u 34mHimself (Archive Footage) - 1993
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles - 1993
It's All True1u 29mSelf - 1992
Don Quixote1u 56mSelf - 1991
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'1u 30mSelf (archive footage) - 1990With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film2u 30mSelf (archive footage)
- 1990
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream1uSelf (archive footage) - 1990
Welles' Language16mSelf (archive footage) - 1988
On the tracks of a filmmakerOrson Welles - 1987
Someone to Love1u 51mDanny's Friend - 1986
Unseen LolloHimself - 1986
It's Not All True1u 35mHimself (archive footage) - 1986
The Transformers: The Movie1u 25mUnicron (voice) - 1986
It's All True: Four Men on a Raft48mDirector - 1985
The Dreamers23mMarcus Kleek - 1985
Scene of the Crime1 seizoen - 1985
Orson Welles' Magic Show27mSelf - 1984
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail2u 30mNarrator - 1984
Almonds and Raisins1u 30mNarrator - 1984In Our Hands1u 30mHimself
- 1984The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon48mSelf
- 1984
The Road to Bresson54mSelf - 1984
The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh3mhimself - 1984
Where Is Parsifal?1u 22mKlingsor - 1983
The Psychic ConnectionNarrator - 1983
Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française1u 33mHimself - 1983
The Witching1u 27mMr. Cato - 1983King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands1uSelf - Narrator
- 1983
Hot Money1u 18mSheriff Paisley - 1982
Wagner e Venezia30mRichard Wagner (voice) - 1982
Magic with the Stars2uSelf - Host - 1982
Genocide1u 24mNarrator (voice) - 1982
Baryshnikov in Hollywood1uSelf - Narrator - 1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady1uSelf - 1982
Let Poland Be Poland1u 26mSelf - 1982
The Orson Welles Story2u 45mSelf - 1982
The Quest for Fire Adventure23mNarrator - 1982
Doug Henning's World of Magic1uSelf - Special Guest - 1982
Butterfly1u 48mJudge Rauch - 1981Tales of the Klondike1 seizoenNarrator
- 1981
A Gift of Harvest22mNarrator - 1981
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow1u 28mPresenter / Narrator (voice) - 1981
Search for the Titanic45mSelf - Host - 1981
History of the World: Part I1u 32mNarrator (voice) - 1981
Brasil13mSelf (archive footage) - 1980Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms ParkNarrator
- 1980A Step Away2uEnglish Narrator
- 1980
The Greenstone38mNarrator (voice) - 1980
The Secret of Nikola Tesla1u 55mJ.P. Morgan - 1979
The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon55mNarrator - 1979
Filming Othello1u 24mHost - 1979
The Double McGuffin1u 41mNarrator (voice) - 1979To Try Again... and Succeed8mNarrator (voice)
- 1979
The Orson Welles Show1u 14mSelf - 1979
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years1uSelf - 1979
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis5u 12mNarrator - 1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay57mNarrator - 1978
Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles28mHimself - 1978
A Woman Called Moses1 seizoenNarrator (voice) - 1978
Orson Welles at The Magic Castle1uSelf - 1978
The Late Great Planet Earth1u 31mSelf - 1978
The Biggest Battle1u 42mNarratore - 1977
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner42mNarrator - 1977
From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural15mNarrator - 1977The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed55mNarrator
- 1977
Tut: The Boy King49mHimself - Host - 1977
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?1uSelf - 1977
It Happened One Christmas1u 50mHenry F. Potter - 1977
The Force Beyond1u 25mHimself (archive footage) - 1977
Hot Tomorrows1u 13mParklawn Mortuary (voice) - 1976A Mother's Tale18mNarrator
- 1976
NBC: The First Fifty Years3uSelf / Narrator - 1976
The New Deal for Artists1u 30mNarrator (voice) - 1976
Bugs Bunny Superstar1u 30mNarrator (voice) - 1975Magnificent Monsters of the Deep1uNarrator
- 1975
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi24mNarrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice) - 1975
Who's Out There?28mHost - 1975Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie45mSelf
- 1974
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art1u 44mNarrator - 1974A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles1u
- 1974
And Then There Were None1u 38mVoice on Tape - 1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still52mSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) - 1973
The Cave9mNarrator - 1973Kelly Country48mNarrator
- 1973
The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles9mNarrator - 1973Power and CorruptionHimself
- 1973
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries1 seizoenSelf - Host - 1973
The Monkey's Paw24mHost - 1973
F for Fake1u 29mSelf - 1973
The Battle of Sutjeska1u 57mWinston Churchill - 1972
The Man Who Came to Dinner1u 13mSheridan Whiteside - 1972Future Shock43mNarrator
- 1972
Malpertuis2u 5mCassavius - 1972
Necromancy1u 22mMr. Cato - 1972
Treasure Island1u 34mLong John Silver - 1972
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !1u 6mSelf - 1972
Get to Know Your Rabbit1u 31mMr. Delasandro - 1971
Flame of Persia54mNarrator - 1971
Freedom River6mNarrator - 1971
Sentinels of Silence18m - 1971
Directed by John Ford1u 50mNarrator (voice) - 1971
A Safe Place1u 34mThe Magician - 1971
Ten Days' Wonder1u 50mThéo Van Horn - 1970
Is It Always Right to Be Right?8mNarrator - 1970
A Horse Called Nijinsky55mNarrator - 1970The Enemy Before Us1u 15mNarrator
- 1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain30m - 1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow30m - 1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy30m - 1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah30m - 1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince30m - 1970
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon30m - 1970
The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)31mShylock - 1970
Waterloo2u 14mLouis XVIII - 1970
Upon This Rock52mMichelangelo (voice) - 1970
Catch-222u 1mBrigadier General Dreedle - 1970
The Kremlin Letter2uBresnavitch - 1970
Start the Revolution Without Me1u 30mThe Narrator - 1969
The Merchant of Venice36mShylock - 1969
To Build a Fire50mNarrator (voice) - 1969
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali55mNarrator (voice) - 1969
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal1u 16mJustinian - 1969
Tepepa2u 16mColonel Cascorro - 1969
Twelve Plus One1u 34mMarkan - 1969
The Southern Star1u 44mPlankett - 1969
The Battle of Neretva2u 55mČetnik - 1968
Vienna8mHimself - 1968
Portrait: Orson Welles41mSelf - 1968
Around the World of Mike Todd50mSelf - Narrator - 1968
The Immortal Story58mCharles Clay - 1968
The Fight for Rome1u 43mJustinian - 1968
House of Cards1u 45mLeschenhaut - 1968
Oedipus the King1u 37mTiresias - 1967
Ten Days That Shook the World1u 17mNarrator - 1967
Beggars Would Ride10mNarrator - 1967Disorder Is 20 Years Old1uSelf
- 1967
I'll Never Forget What's'isname1u 39mJonathan Lute - 1967
Casino Royale2u 11mLe Chiffre - 1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar1u 31mLouis de Mozambique - 1967
The HeroineDirector - 1966
Orson Welles in Spain10mHimself - 1966
A Man for All Seasons2uCardinal Wolsey - 1965
A King's Story1u 42mNarrator - 1965
Profile No. 6: Orson Welles31m - 1965
Americans on Everest48mNarrator- Self - 1965
Chimes at Midnight1u 55mFalstaff - 1965
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees50mSelf - Narrator (voice) - 1965
Marco the Magnificent1u 52mAkerman, Marco's Teacher - 1964
In the Land of Don Quixote1 seizoenHimself - 1964
The Finest Hours1u 56mNarrator (voice) - 1963
La ricotta35m - 1963
Ro.Go.Pa.G.2u 2mThe 'Director' (segment "La ricotta") - 1963
The V.I.P.s1u 59mMax Buda - 1962River of the Ocean1u 16mNarrator (English)
- 1962
The Trial1u 59mAlbert Hastler - 1962
Lafayette2u 38mBenjamin Franklin - 1961
The Tartars1u 23mBurundai - 1960
Crack in the Mirror1u 37mHagolin / Lamerciere - 1960
Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles8mSelf (narrator) - 1960
David and Goliath1u 43mKing Saul - 1960
An Arabian Night1u 25mStoryteller - 1960
Austerlitz2u 46mRobert Fulton - 1959
High Journey33mNarrator - 1959
Ferry to Hong Kong1u 52mCaptain Hart - 1959
Compulsion1u 43mJonathan Wilk - 1958
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina26mSelf - Host - 1958Lords of the Forest1u 28mNarrator (voice)
- 1958
Touch of Evil1u 51mPolice Captain Hank Quinlan - 1958
The Long, Hot Summer1u 55mWill Varner - 1958
The Roots of Heaven2u 1mCy Sedgewick - 1958
The Fountain of Youth27mthe narrator - 1957
Man in the Shadow1u 20mVirgil Renchler - 1956Out of Darkness1uSelf - Narrator
- 1956Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers27mSelf - Narrator (voice)
- 1956
Moby Dick1u 55mFather Mapple - 1955
The Land of the Basques41mHimself - 1955
Orson Welles' Sketch Book1 seizoenHimself - Host - 1955
Three Cases of Murder1u 39mLord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) - 1955
Around the World with Orson Welles1 seizoenHost: Orson Welles - 1955
Mr. Arkadin1u 47mGregory Arkadin - 1955
Moby Dick—Rehearsed1u 35mAn Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab - 1954
Trouble in the Glen1u 31mSanin Cejador y Mengues - 1953
King Lear1u 22mKing Lear - 1953
Man, Beast and Virtue1u 26mCaptain Perella, the Beast - 1952
Return to Glennascaul23mNarrator - 1952
Trent's Last Case1u 30mSigsbee Manderson - 1951
Othello1u 33mOthello - 1950
Disorder18mSelf - 1950
The Black Rose1u 56mBayan - 1950
The Miracle of St. Anne1mThe Director - 1949
Black Magic1u 45mJoseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro - 1949
Prince of Foxes1u 47mCesare Borgia - 1949
The Third Man1u 45mHarry Lime - 1948
Macbeth1u 47mMacbeth - 1947
The Lady from Shanghai1u 27mMichael O'Hara - 1947
Monsieur Verdoux2u 4mStory - 1946Battle for Survival17mNarrator
- 1946
Tomorrow Is Forever1u 45mJohn Andrew MacDonald - 1946
The Stranger1u 35mProf. Charles Rankin - 1945Mexico City, Old and New10mNarrator
- 1944
Know Your Ally: Britain42mNarrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger) - 1944
Follow the Boys2u 2mOrson Welles (uncredited) - 1943
Jane Eyre1u 37mEdward Rochester - 1943
Journey into Fear1u 8mColonel Haki - 1943It's All TrueDirector
- 1942
The Magnificent Ambersons1u 28mNarrator (voice) - 1941
Citizen Kane1u 59mCharles Foster Kane - 1940
Swiss Family Robinson1u 33mOpening Narrator (uncredited) - 1939The Green Goddess20mRajah/Narrator
- 1937
The Spanish Earth53mNarrator (voice) - 1934
The Hearts of Age8mDeath - 1933
Twelfth Night9mNarrator - Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee47mNarrator
- Something Else1u 20m
