Highlighted works
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Among the most famous of broken films, Orson Welles’ masterful follow-up to Citizen Kane was taken out of his control and re-edited by the studio.
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Orson Welles’ return to Hollywood after ten years working in Europe is a sleazy border tale in which he takes centre stage as gargantuan detective Hank Quinlan.
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Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Welles created a modernist masterpiece that is regularly voted the best film ever made.
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An American abroad in post-war Vienna pursues his missing friend down a rabbit hole of intrigue and moral corruption in Carol Reed’s masterpiece of European noir.
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Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More falls foul of King Henry VIII in Fred Zinnemann’s Oscar-winning adaptation of Robert Bolt’s stage success.
Filmography
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The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine[Rx 11/12/71]
on-screen participant
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The Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
Narrator
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Screenplay
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Screenplay
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[Subject of Film]
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Director
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Director
Producer
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Director
Producer
cast member -
Director
Producer
cast member -
Director
Script -
Director
Script -
Director
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Round the World with Orson Welles [Series File]
Director
Script
host -
Round the World with Orson Welles [Series File]
Director
Script
host -
Round the World with Orson Welles [Series File]
Director
Script
host -
Director
Producer
Screenplay -
Director
Producer
Screenplay -
Director
Producer
Screenplay 2006
[Subject of Film]
2006
Narration [from 1971 version]
2005
[Subject of Film]
[Archive footage]2002
Script based on the screenplay by
2002
Narrator [using old radio broadcasts]
2002
interviewee
2000
L'AFFAIRE DOMINICI PAR ORSON WELLES
Director
On-screen Participant2000
ORSON WELLES EN EL PAÍS DE DON QUIJOTE
[Subject of Film]
2000
Reconstructing Evil - The Making of Touch of Evil
[Subject of Programme]
1999
[Subject of Film]
1999
Based upon a screenplay by
1999
The Greatest Adventure The Story of One Man's Voyage to the Moon
narrator
1999
Dedicated to
1998
Touch of Evil [1998 Restoration]
Director
1997
ORSON WELLES: THE ONE-MAN BAND
interviewee
1995
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies Part Three The Director As Smuggler
interviewee [old footage]
1995
interviewee
1993
ROSABELLA: LA STORIA ITALIANA DI ORSON WELLES
[Subject of Film]
cast member1993
Interview excerpt
1992
Archive interview footage
1991
[Subject of Film]
1991
[Subject of Film]
Interviewee [Archive footage: 1960/1982]1990
[Subject of Programme]
1990
narrator
1990
Lear
1990
With Orson Welles Stories of a Life in Film
on-screen participant
1990
She's Not a Moron She's Your Wife
Voice: Domestos `Creeping Dirt' (1967)
1989
Shylock - from The Merchant of Venice
1989
1963 interview
1989
1963 interview
1987
Danny's friend
1986
narrator
1986
voice of Unicron
1986
Sheriff Paisley
1985
Cousteau's Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle
narrator
1985
narrator
1985
Dom Deluise and Friends - Part III
cast member
1984
The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
Director
Producer
Script
letter reader1984
narrator
1984
narrator
1984
host
1984
ORSON WELLES À LA CINÉMATHÈQUE
cast member
1983
introduction
1983
The Grand Canyon Chronicles : pre-cambrian and Paleozoic Earas and Mesozoic and Coneozoic Eras
commentator
1983
commentator
1983
narrator
1983
narrator
1983
Jack London's Tales of the Klondike
narrator
1983
narrator
1983
narrator
1983
narrator
1983
narrator
1983
Klingsor
1983
[Cannes `83 prizegiving footage]
1983
The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston
on-screen participant
1983
on-screen participant
1982
[Subject of Film]
interviewee1982
[Subject of Film]
interviewee1982
Magical Adviser
1982
commentator
1982
narrator
1982
narrator
1982
on-screen participant
1981
Filming the Trial by Orson Welles
Director
Producer
Script
on-screen participant1981
commentator
1981
commentator
1981
narrator
1981
narrator
1981
host
1981
Narrator
1981
Judge Rauch
1980
commentator
1980
narrator
1980
J.P. Morgan
1980
Frank Sinatra - The First Forty Years
cast member
1979
Director
Script1979
narrator
1979
cast member
1979
Lew Lord
1978
Director
Script
Marcus Cocoza/Kleek1978
Director
Script
host
himself1978
Director
Script
on-screen participant1978
narrator (English language version)
1978
narrator
1978
narrator
1977
narrator
1977
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
narrator
1977
Russian Festival of Music and Dance
host
1977
cast member
1977
José Estedes, Cuban Industrialist
1976
Director
Producer
Script
the magician1976
Director
Producer
Script
cast member1976
narrator
1976
narrator
1976
Host
1976
and the voice of
1975
A Film by
[Script]
[Participation]1975
The Night That Panicked America
Creator of original broadcast
1975
introduction
1975
introduction
1975
introduction
1975
The Challenge: A Tribute to Modern Art
narrator
cast member1975
narrator
1974
Screenplay
cast member1974
introduction
1974
introduction
1974
commentator
1974
commentator
1974
narrator
1974
Poems read by
1973
commentator
1973
narrator
1973
interviewee
1973
interviewee
1972
Adapted for the Screen by
Long John Silver1972
narrator
1972
Sheridan Whiteside
1972
cast member
1972
cast member
1972
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine[Programme 1]
guest
1972
The Best of the Comedy Machine
on-screen participant
1971
Director
Script
all roles1971
commentator
1971
Narrator [US version]
1971
narrator
1971
narrator
1971
BONHEUR DANS VINGT ANS: PRAGUE 1948-68
Narrator of English language version
1971
Malpertuis Histoire d'une maison maudite
Cassavius
1971
narrator
1971
Théo Van Horn
1971
the magician
1971
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine[05/11/71]
guest
1971
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine[01/10/71]
guest
1970
Director
Screenplay
narrator1970
narrator
1970
Is It Always Right to Be Right?
narrator
1970
AUTO-PORTRAIT MOU DE SALVADOR DALI
narrator
1970
narrator
1970
Louis XVIII
1970
Michelangelo
1970
General Dreedle
1970
interviewee
1969
Director
Screenplay
Shylock1969
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Onscreen host
Winston Churchill/George Bernard Shaw [1
one-man band/singing policeman [2]
jolly jacktar/violets seller [2]
woman@window/Chinese strip-joint owner[2
four old clubmen [3]
Lord Plumfield/Orson Welles [4]
Mr Short [5]1969
Colonel Cascarro
1969
Chetnik senator
1969
Markau
1969
KAMPF UM ROM 2. TEIL: DER VERRAT
Emperor Justinian
1969
Aleksei Bresnavitch
1969
Start the Revolution without Me
narrator
1968
Director
Script
cast member1968
Director
Screenplay
narrator
Mr Clay1968
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Russ Brewer1968
narrator
1968
I'll Never Forget What's 'isname
Jonathan Lute
1968
Charles Leschenhaut
1968
Plankett
1968
Emperor Justinian
1967
narrator
1967
Tiresias
1967
Le Chiffre
1967
Louis de Mozambique
1967
interviewee
1967
interviewee
1966
Director
[Screenplay]
[Costume Designer]
Sir John Falstaff1966
cast member
1966
cast member
1966
Cardinal Wolsey
1966
Narrated by [added circa 1980s]
1966
Consul Raoul Nordling
1965
Director
Screenplay
Long John Silver [cast only]1965
[Subject of Film]
1965
narrator
1965
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
narrator
1965
La FABULEUSE AVENTURE DE MARCO POLO
Ackermann
1964
narrator
1963
[Subject of Film]
cast member1963
Max Buda
1963
[4] the director
1963
on-screen participant
1962
Director
Screenplay
Hastler, the advocate1962
Adaptation
1962
Adaptation
1962
Benjamin Franklin
1962
interviewee
1961
Burundai
1961
narrator (uncredited)
1960
Orson Welles on Stage in Dublin
Director
on-screen participant1960
Hagolin/Lamorcière
1960
interviewee
1960
storyteller
1960
Fulton
1959
narrator
1959
narrator
1959
Saul
1959
Jonathan Wilk
1959
Captain Cecil Hart
1958
Director
Screenplay by
Hank Quinlan1958
Director
Producer
Teleplay
Production design
Musical arrangement
Onscreen host/Narrator1958
[Narrator]
1958
narrator
1958
Will Varner
1958
Cy Sedgewick
1957
Director
Screenplay
Editor
narrator
himself
voice of Don Quixote/Sancho Panza1957
[False Nose Make-up Assistance]
1957
Virgil Renchler
1957
Father Mapple
1956
Director
Script
himself1955
[Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant1955
[Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant1955
Director
Script
Host1955
[Houdini] [Voodoo Story] [John Barrymore] [The People I Missed]
[Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant1955
[Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant1955
[Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant1955
Director
Script
Host1955
Director
Screenplay
actor-manager/Father Mapple/Captain Ahab1955
Direction
Screen Play/Original Story
[Art Director]
[Costumes]
[Narrator]
Gregory Arkadin1955
Director
Script
host1955
Director
Script
Host1955
[Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant1955
Hudson Lowe
1955
interviewee
1954
The Laird Sanin Cejadory Mengues
1954
Benjamin Franklin
1953
Lord Mountdrago [1]
1953
Sigsbee Manderson
1952
Director
Producer
[Adaptation]
narrator
Othello1952
[Dubbing Director, English version]
voice of Christ [English version]1952
cast member
1951
introduction/himself
1950
Bayan
1950
on-screen participant
1949
Cagliostro (Josef Balsamo)
1949
Cesare Borgia
1949
Harry Lime
1948
Directed by
a Mercury production by
Adaptation (uncredited)
Macbeth1947
Production [Director]
Production
Screen Play
Michael O'Hara1947
Based on an idea by
1946
Direction
[Screenplay]
Franz Kindler alias Charles Rankin1946
[Narrator]
1946
John MacDonald/Erich Kessler
1944
Edward Rochester
1944
himself
1942
Director
[Producer]
Screenplay
narrator1942
Producer
Script
colonel Haki1941
Director
narrator1941
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Charles Foster Kane1941
Director [1,3,4]
Producer [1,2,3,4]
Script [1,2,3,4]1938
Director
1937
[narrator - unreleased version]
1934
Director
Screenplay
Death
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