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

  1. 2028Charmed Lives: A Family RomanceSelf (archive footage)
  2. 2026War of the Worlds1unarrator
  3. 2026The Making Of32mSelf (archival)
  4. 2025The Scorpion and the Frog1mNarrator (archive footage)
  5. 2025WeirdWorld22mTroy2000 (Archive footage)
  6. 2025Human Nature in Eleven Parts27mNarrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)
  7. 2024Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters1u 15mSelf
  8. 2024The Battle of Grovers Mill10mRadio Host (voice) (archival footage)
  9. 2024Othelo The Great1u 23mSelf (archive footage)
  10. 2024Jim Henson Idea Man1u 48mSelf (archive footage)
  11. 2023It's Pretty, but is it Art?3mSelf (voiceover)
  12. 2023From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight5mFalstaff
  13. 2023Looking Back Before You Leap1u 3mGeneral Zaroff (voice)
  14. 2022The Welles Raft1u 15mHimself (Archive Footage)
  15. 2022Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend1u 18mSelf (archive footage)
  16. 2022American: An Odyssey to 19471u 42mSelf (archive footage)
  17. 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues1u 44mSelf (archive footage)
  18. 2021My Guest is Orson Welles43m
  19. 2021Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles19mSelf
  20. 2021Parkinson at 5058mSelf (archive footage)
  21. 2021The Blinding of Isaac Woodard1u 52mSelf (archive footage)
  22. 2020Hopper/Welles2u 11mSelf
  23. 2019Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"5m(archive footage)
  24. 2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead1u 38mSelf (archive footage)
  25. 2018The Eyes of Orson Welles1u 51mSelf - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
  26. 2018Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit54mSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  27. 2018The Other Side of the Wind2u 2mDirector
  28. 2017The Magic History of Cinema1u 25m
  29. 2016Embers & Dust11mProfessor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)
  30. 2015This Is Orson Welles52mSelf
  31. 2014Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance58mSelf (archive footage)
  32. 2014Citizen Vader5mCharacters
  33. 2013Too Much Johnson1u 7mKeystone Kop
  34. 2013Jodorowsky's Dune1u 27mSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  35. 2012Magic Mirror Maze5m
  36. 2012The Shadow Knows2u 4mSelf (archive footage)
  37. 2011Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure1u 30mSelf
  38. 2010Orson Welles: The Paris Interview57mHimself
  39. 2010Jucy1u 30mElephant Lamp (archive sound)
  40. 2009Lucifer et moi(archive footage 1982)
  41. 2008F for favor2mOriginal Concept
  42. 2007The Deep1u 51mRuss Brewer
  43. 2007The Hitchhiker1u 23mOriginal Concept
  44. 2005Orson Welles Uncut26m
  45. 2005The Well1u 45m
  46. 2005Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill1u 2m(Self)
  47. 2005The Other Side of Welles1u 7mSelf (archive footage)
  48. 2005Lost in "The Thinking"35mSelf (archive footage)
  49. 2004The Hitch Hiker28mRonald Adams
  50. 2004The UFO Conspiracy1u 11mSelf (archive sound)
  51. 2003The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles52mSelf (archive footage)
  52. 2002Filming 'The Trial'1u 22mSelf
  53. 2002The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)4mArchival Footage
  54. 2002Heart of the Festival26mSelf (archive footage)
  55. 2002Lost in La Mancha1u 33mSelf (archive footage)
  56. 2002The Magnificent Ambersons2u 30mOriginal Film Writer
  57. 2001NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 31u 30mNarrator
  58. 2001A Huey P. Newton Story1u 26mSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  59. 2000Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote1u 32mSelf (Archive footage)
  60. 2000Moby Dick22mCaptain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)
  61. 2000Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces1u 25mSelf (archive footage)
  62. 1999One Man Band29mPresenter / Various
  63. 1999According to Occam's Razor1u 36m
  64. 1999Hi-Fi8m
  65. 1998The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsSelf - Roaster (archive footage)
  66. 1998The Way to Santiago20mWriter
  67. 1997It's All Brazil1u 22mSelf (archive footage)
  68. 1997The Hearts of Age10mOriginal Concept
  69. 1997The Big Brass Ring7mWriter
  70. 1996The Battle Over Citizen Kane1u 48mSelf (archive footage)
  71. 1995Orson Welles: The One-Man Band1u 28mSelf (archive footage)
  72. 1993Working with Orson Welles1u 34mHimself (Archive Footage)
  73. 1993Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
  74. 1993It's All True1u 29mSelf
  75. 1992Don Quixote1u 56mSelf
  76. 1991The Complete 'Citizen Kane'1u 30mSelf (archive footage)
  77. 1990With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film2u 30mSelf (archive footage)
  78. 1990Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream1uSelf (archive footage)
  79. 1990Welles' Language16mSelf (archive footage)
  80. 1988On the tracks of a filmmakerOrson Welles
  81. 1987Someone to Love1u 51mDanny's Friend
  82. 1986Unseen LolloHimself
  83. 1986It's Not All True1u 35mHimself (archive footage)
  84. 1986The Transformers: The Movie1u 25mUnicron (voice)
  85. 1986It's All True: Four Men on a Raft48mDirector
  86. 1985The Dreamers23mMarcus Kleek
  87. 1985Scene of the Crime1 seizoen
  88. 1985Orson Welles' Magic Show27mSelf
  89. 1984The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail2u 30mNarrator
  90. 1984Almonds and Raisins1u 30mNarrator
  91. 1984In Our Hands1u 30mHimself
  92. 1984The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon48mSelf
  93. 1984The Road to Bresson54mSelf
  94. 1984The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh3mhimself
  95. 1984Where Is Parsifal?1u 22mKlingsor
  96. 1983The Psychic ConnectionNarrator
  97. 1983Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française1u 33mHimself
  98. 1983The Witching1u 27mMr. Cato
  99. 1983King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands1uSelf - Narrator
  100. 1983Hot Money1u 18mSheriff Paisley
  101. 1982Wagner e Venezia30mRichard Wagner (voice)
  102. 1982Magic with the Stars2uSelf - Host
  103. 1982Genocide1u 24mNarrator (voice)
  104. 1982Baryshnikov in Hollywood1uSelf - Narrator
  105. 1982Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady1uSelf
  106. 1982Let Poland Be Poland1u 26mSelf
  107. 1982The Orson Welles Story2u 45mSelf
  108. 1982The Quest for Fire Adventure23mNarrator
  109. 1982Doug Henning's World of Magic1uSelf - Special Guest
  110. 1982Butterfly1u 48mJudge Rauch
  111. 1981Tales of the Klondike1 seizoenNarrator
  112. 1981A Gift of Harvest22mNarrator
  113. 1981The Man Who Saw Tomorrow1u 28mPresenter / Narrator (voice)
  114. 1981Search for the Titanic45mSelf - Host
  115. 1981History of the World: Part I1u 32mNarrator (voice)
  116. 1981Brasil13mSelf (archive footage)
  117. 1980Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms ParkNarrator
  118. 1980A Step Away2uEnglish Narrator
  119. 1980The Greenstone38mNarrator (voice)
  120. 1980The Secret of Nikola Tesla1u 55mJ.P. Morgan
  121. 1979The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon55mNarrator
  122. 1979Filming Othello1u 24mHost
  123. 1979The Double McGuffin1u 41mNarrator (voice)
  124. 1979To Try Again... and Succeed8mNarrator (voice)
  125. 1979The Orson Welles Show1u 14mSelf
  126. 1979Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years1uSelf
  127. 1979The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis5u 12mNarrator
  128. 1978Mysterious Castles of Clay57mNarrator
  129. 1978Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles28mHimself
  130. 1978A Woman Called Moses1 seizoenNarrator (voice)
  131. 1978Orson Welles at The Magic Castle1uSelf
  132. 1978The Late Great Planet Earth1u 31mSelf
  133. 1978The Biggest Battle1u 42mNarratore
  134. 1977The Rime of the Ancient Mariner42mNarrator
  135. 1977From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural15mNarrator
  136. 1977The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed55mNarrator
  137. 1977Tut: The Boy King49mHimself - Host
  138. 1977The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?1uSelf
  139. 1977It Happened One Christmas1u 50mHenry F. Potter
  140. 1977The Force Beyond1u 25mHimself (archive footage)
  141. 1977Hot Tomorrows1u 13mParklawn Mortuary (voice)
  142. 1976A Mother's Tale18mNarrator
  143. 1976NBC: The First Fifty Years3uSelf / Narrator
  144. 1976The New Deal for Artists1u 30mNarrator (voice)
  145. 1976Bugs Bunny Superstar1u 30mNarrator (voice)
  146. 1975Magnificent Monsters of the Deep1uNarrator
  147. 1975Rikki-Tikki-Tavi24mNarrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
  148. 1975Who's Out There?28mHost
  149. 1975Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie45mSelf
  150. 1974The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art1u 44mNarrator
  151. 1974A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles1u
  152. 1974And Then There Were None1u 38mVoice on Tape
  153. 1974Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still52mSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  154. 1973The Cave9mNarrator
  155. 1973Kelly Country48mNarrator
  156. 1973The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles9mNarrator
  157. 1973Power and CorruptionHimself
  158. 1973Orson Welles' Great Mysteries1 seizoenSelf - Host
  159. 1973The Monkey's Paw24mHost
  160. 1973F for Fake1u 29mSelf
  161. 1973The Battle of Sutjeska1u 57mWinston Churchill
  162. 1972The Man Who Came to Dinner1u 13mSheridan Whiteside
  163. 1972Future Shock43mNarrator
  164. 1972Malpertuis2u 5mCassavius
  165. 1972Necromancy1u 22mMr. Cato
  166. 1972Treasure Island1u 34mLong John Silver
  167. 1972Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !1u 6mSelf
  168. 1972Get to Know Your Rabbit1u 31mMr. Delasandro
  169. 1971Flame of Persia54mNarrator
  170. 1971Freedom River6mNarrator
  171. 1971Sentinels of Silence18m
  172. 1971Directed by John Ford1u 50mNarrator (voice)
  173. 1971A Safe Place1u 34mThe Magician
  174. 1971Ten Days' Wonder1u 50mThéo Van Horn
  175. 1970Is It Always Right to Be Right?8mNarrator
  176. 1970A Horse Called Nijinsky55mNarrator
  177. 1970The Enemy Before Us1u 15mNarrator
  178. 1970An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain30m
  179. 1970An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow30m
  180. 1970An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy30m
  181. 1970An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah30m
  182. 1970An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince30m
  183. 1970An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon30m
  184. 1970The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)31mShylock
  185. 1970Waterloo2u 14mLouis XVIII
  186. 1970Upon This Rock52mMichelangelo (voice)
  187. 1970Catch-222u 1mBrigadier General Dreedle
  188. 1970The Kremlin Letter2uBresnavitch
  189. 1970Start the Revolution Without Me1u 30mThe Narrator
  190. 1969The Merchant of Venice36mShylock
  191. 1969To Build a Fire50mNarrator (voice)
  192. 1969Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali55mNarrator (voice)
  193. 1969The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal1u 16mJustinian
  194. 1969Tepepa2u 16mColonel Cascorro
  195. 1969Twelve Plus One1u 34mMarkan
  196. 1969The Southern Star1u 44mPlankett
  197. 1969The Battle of Neretva2u 55mČetnik
  198. 1968Vienna8mHimself
  199. 1968Portrait: Orson Welles41mSelf
  200. 1968Around the World of Mike Todd50mSelf - Narrator
  201. 1968The Immortal Story58mCharles Clay
  202. 1968The Fight for Rome1u 43mJustinian
  203. 1968House of Cards1u 45mLeschenhaut
  204. 1968Oedipus the King1u 37mTiresias
  205. 1967Ten Days That Shook the World1u 17mNarrator
  206. 1967Beggars Would Ride10mNarrator
  207. 1967Disorder Is 20 Years Old1uSelf
  208. 1967I'll Never Forget What's'isname1u 39mJonathan Lute
  209. 1967Casino Royale2u 11mLe Chiffre
  210. 1967The Sailor from Gibraltar1u 31mLouis de Mozambique
  211. 1967The HeroineDirector
  212. 1966Orson Welles in Spain10mHimself
  213. 1966A Man for All Seasons2uCardinal Wolsey
  214. 1965A King's Story1u 42mNarrator
  215. 1965Profile No. 6: Orson Welles31m
  216. 1965Americans on Everest48mNarrator- Self
  217. 1965Chimes at Midnight1u 55mFalstaff
  218. 1965Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees50mSelf - Narrator (voice)
  219. 1965Marco the Magnificent1u 52mAkerman, Marco's Teacher
  220. 1964In the Land of Don Quixote1 seizoenHimself
  221. 1964The Finest Hours1u 56mNarrator (voice)
  222. 1963La ricotta35m
  223. 1963Ro.Go.Pa.G.2u 2mThe 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
  224. 1963The V.I.P.s1u 59mMax Buda
  225. 1962River of the Ocean1u 16mNarrator (English)
  226. 1962The Trial1u 59mAlbert Hastler
  227. 1962Lafayette2u 38mBenjamin Franklin
  228. 1961The Tartars1u 23mBurundai
  229. 1960Crack in the Mirror1u 37mHagolin / Lamerciere
  230. 1960Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles8mSelf (narrator)
  231. 1960David and Goliath1u 43mKing Saul
  232. 1960An Arabian Night1u 25mStoryteller
  233. 1960Austerlitz2u 46mRobert Fulton
  234. 1959High Journey33mNarrator
  235. 1959Ferry to Hong Kong1u 52mCaptain Hart
  236. 1959Compulsion1u 43mJonathan Wilk
  237. 1958Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina26mSelf - Host
  238. 1958Lords of the Forest1u 28mNarrator (voice)
  239. 1958Touch of Evil1u 51mPolice Captain Hank Quinlan
  240. 1958The Long, Hot Summer1u 55mWill Varner
  241. 1958The Roots of Heaven2u 1mCy Sedgewick
  242. 1958The Fountain of Youth27mthe narrator
  243. 1957Man in the Shadow1u 20mVirgil Renchler
  244. 1956Out of Darkness1uSelf - Narrator
  245. 1956Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers27mSelf - Narrator (voice)
  246. 1956Moby Dick1u 55mFather Mapple
  247. 1955The Land of the Basques41mHimself
  248. 1955Orson Welles' Sketch Book1 seizoenHimself - Host
  249. 1955Three Cases of Murder1u 39mLord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
  250. 1955Around the World with Orson Welles1 seizoenHost: Orson Welles
  251. 1955Mr. Arkadin1u 47mGregory Arkadin
  252. 1955Moby Dick—Rehearsed1u 35mAn Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab
  253. 1954Trouble in the Glen1u 31mSanin Cejador y Mengues
  254. 1953King Lear1u 22mKing Lear
  255. 1953Man, Beast and Virtue1u 26mCaptain Perella, the Beast
  256. 1952Return to Glennascaul23mNarrator
  257. 1952Trent's Last Case1u 30mSigsbee Manderson
  258. 1951Othello1u 33mOthello
  259. 1950Disorder18mSelf
  260. 1950The Black Rose1u 56mBayan
  261. 1950The Miracle of St. Anne1mThe Director
  262. 1949Black Magic1u 45mJoseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
  263. 1949Prince of Foxes1u 47mCesare Borgia
  264. 1949The Third Man1u 45mHarry Lime
  265. 1948Macbeth1u 47mMacbeth
  266. 1947The Lady from Shanghai1u 27mMichael O'Hara
  267. 1947Monsieur Verdoux2u 4mStory
  268. 1946Battle for Survival17mNarrator
  269. 1946Tomorrow Is Forever1u 45mJohn Andrew MacDonald
  270. 1946The Stranger1u 35mProf. Charles Rankin
  271. 1945Mexico City, Old and New10mNarrator
  272. 1944Know Your Ally: Britain42mNarrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)
  273. 1944Follow the Boys2u 2mOrson Welles (uncredited)
  274. 1943Jane Eyre1u 37mEdward Rochester
  275. 1943Journey into Fear1u 8mColonel Haki
  276. 1943It's All TrueDirector
  277. 1942The Magnificent Ambersons1u 28mNarrator (voice)
  278. 1941Citizen Kane1u 59mCharles Foster Kane
  279. 1940Swiss Family Robinson1u 33mOpening Narrator (uncredited)
  280. 1939The Green Goddess20mRajah/Narrator
  281. 1937The Spanish Earth53mNarrator (voice)
  282. 1934The Hearts of Age8mDeath
  283. 1933Twelfth Night9mNarrator
  284. Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee47mNarrator
  285. Something Else1u 20m