Orson Welles
Birthday: 1915-05-06
Deathday: 1985-04-18
Birthplace: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Gender: Male
Drafted: 0
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Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
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Total Points: 0
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, 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.
Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1942 | 27 | Citizen Kane (1941) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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2024-09-05 | Othelo The Great | Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo) |
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2024-06-08 | The Battle of Grovers Mill | Radio Host (voice) (archival footage) |
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2023-04-09 | From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight | Falstaff |
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2023-01-31 | Looking Back Before You Leap | General Zaroff (voice) |
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2018-11-02 | The Other Side of the Wind | Journalist (uncredited) |
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2017-08-30 | The Magic History of Cinema | |
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2013-10-09 | Too Much Johnson | Keystone Kop |
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2012-05-10 | Magic Mirror Maze | |
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2009-02-04 | Lucifer et moi | (archive footage 1982) |
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2007-07-08 | The Deep | Russ Brewer |
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2005-03-11 | The Well | |
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2004-08-11 | The Hitch Hiker | Ronald Adams |
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1999-01-01 | According to Occam's Razor | |
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1993-09-08 | Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles | |
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1988-01-01 | On the tracks of a filmmaker | Orson Welles |
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1987-09-11 | Someone to Love | Danny's Friend |
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1986-08-08 | The Transformers: The Movie | Unicron (voice) |
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1985-02-05 | The Dreamers | Marcus Kleek |
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1984-12-07 | The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon | |
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1984-01-01 | Where Is Parsifal? | Klingsor |
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1983-11-25 | The Witching | Mr. Cato |
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1983-01-01 | Hot Money | Sheriff Paisley |
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1982-12-09 | Slapstick of Another Kind | Aliens' Father (voice) |
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1982-12-03 | Wagner e Venezia | Richard Wagner (voice) |
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1982-02-05 | Butterfly | Judge Rauch |
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1982-01-17 | Magic with the Stars | Host |
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1981-10-10 | The Enchanted Journey | Pippo |
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1980-02-19 | The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla | J.P. Morgan |
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1979-06-22 | The Muppet Movie | Lew Lord |
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1978-07-10 | Filming Othello | Host |
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1977-12-11 | It Happened One Christmas | Henry F. Potter |
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1977-04-01 | Hot Tomorrows | Parklawn Mortuary (voice) |
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1976-12-22 | Voyage of the Damned | José Estedes |
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1975-01-01 | Who's Out There? | Host |
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1974-12-01 | A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles | |
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1974-09-24 | And Then There Were None | Voice on Tape |
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1973-07-03 | The Battle of Sutjeska | Winston Churchill |
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1972-11-29 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Sheridan Whiteside |
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1972-10-01 | Treasure Island | Long John Silver |
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1972-09-22 | Necromancy | Mr. Cato |
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1972-06-07 | Get to Know Your Rabbit | Mr. Delasandro |
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1972-01-01 | Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! | |
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1971-12-31 | London | Winston Churchill / George Bernard Shaw |
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1971-12-01 | Ten Days' Wonder | Théo Van Horn |
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1971-10-01 | A Safe Place | The Magician |
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1971-05-01 | Centinelas del Silencio | |
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1971-01-02 | Malpertuis | Cassavius |
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1970-12-31 | An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon | |
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1970-10-26 | Waterloo | Louis XVIII |
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1970-06-24 | Catch-22 | Brigadier General Dreedle |
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1970-02-01 | The Kremlin Letter | Bresnavitch |
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1970-01-01 | Upon This Rock | Michelangelo (voice) |
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1969-12-01 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock |
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1969-10-07 | Twelve Plus One | Markan |
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1969-10-07 | The Battle of Neretva | Četnik |
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1969-03-04 | The Southern Star | Plankett |
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1969-02-21 | The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal | Justinian |
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1969-01-31 | Tepepa | Colonel Cascorro |
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1968-12-17 | The Fight for Rome | Justinian |
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1968-09-16 | House of Cards | Leschenhaut |
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1968-06-01 | The Immortal Story | Charles Clay |
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1968-06-01 | Oedipus the King | Tiresias |
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1967-12-18 | I'll Never Forget What's'isname | Jonathan Lute |
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1967-04-13 | Casino Royale | Le Chiffre |
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1967-01-01 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Louis de Mozambique |
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1966-12-13 | A Man for All Seasons | Cardinal Wolsey |
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1966-10-26 | Is Paris Burning? | Konsul Nordling |
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1965-12-22 | Chimes at Midnight | Falstaff |
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1965-08-06 | Marco the Magnificent | Akerman, Marco's Teacher |
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1963-09-01 | The V.I.P.s | Max Buda |
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1963-02-19 | Ro.Go.Pa.G. | The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta") |
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1962-12-21 | The Trial | Albert Hastler |
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1962-02-16 | Lafayette | Benjamin Franklin |
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1961-04-01 | The Tartars | Burundai |
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1960-06-17 | The Battle of Austerlitz | Robert Fulton |
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1960-06-09 | An Arabian Night | Storyteller |
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1960-05-19 | Crack in the Mirror | Hagolin / Lamerciere |
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1960-01-22 | David and Goliath | King Saul |
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1959-10-29 | Ferry to Hong Kong | Captain Hart |
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1959-04-01 | Compulsion | Jonathan Wilk |
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1958-10-15 | The Roots of Heaven | Cy Sedgewick |
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1958-09-16 | The Fountain of Youth | the narrator |
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1958-05-17 | The Long, Hot Summer | Will Varner |
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1958-03-30 | Touch of Evil | Police Captain Hank Quinlan |
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1957-12-12 | Man in the Shadow | Virgil Renchler |
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1956-06-27 | Moby Dick | Father Mapple |
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1955-08-09 | Mr. Arkadin | Gregory Arkadin |
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1955-03-25 | Napoleon | Sir Hudson Lowe |
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1955-03-15 | Three Cases of Murder | Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) |
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1954-06-15 | Trouble in the Glen | Sanin Cejador y Mengues |
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1954-02-10 | Royal Affairs in Versailles | Benjamin Franklin |
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1953-10-18 | King Lear | King Lear |
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1953-05-09 | Man, Beast and Virtue | Captain Perella, the Beast |
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1952-09-22 | Trent's Last Case | Sigsbee Manderson |
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1951-11-28 | Othello | Othello |
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1950-09-01 | The Black Rose | Bayan |
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1949-11-11 | Prince of Foxes | Cesare Borgia |
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1949-08-31 | The Third Man | Harry Lime |
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1949-08-19 | Black Magic | Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro |
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1948-10-01 | Macbeth | Macbeth |
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1947-12-24 | The Lady from Shanghai | Michael O'Hara |
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1946-07-02 | The Stranger | Prof. Charles Rankin |
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1946-02-20 | Tomorrow Is Forever | John Andrew MacDonald |
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1944-05-05 | Follow the Boys | Orson Welles (uncredited) |
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1943-12-24 | Jane Eyre | Edward Rochester |
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1943-01-07 | Journey into Fear | Colonel Haki |
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1941-04-17 | Citizen Kane | Charles Foster Kane |
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1934-01-01 | The Hearts of Age | Death |