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Orson Welles

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.

  • Nacimiento: 1915-05-06, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
  • Fallecimiento: 1985-10-10
  • Valoración en CMNetwork Actors: 3,7 de 5

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Conocido por

  • Ciudadano Kane (1941) — Charles Foster Kane
  • El tercer hombre (1949) — Harry Lime
  • Sed de mal (1958) — Police Captain Hank Quinlan
  • La dama de Shanghai (1947) — Michael O'Hara
  • Casino Royale (1967) — Le Chiffre
  • El extraño (1946) — Prof. Charles Rankin
  • El proceso (1962) — Albert Hastler
  • Transformers: La película (1986) — Unicron (voz)

Filmografía

  • Something Else
  • WeirdWorld (2025) — Troy2000 (Archive footage)
  • The Battle of Grovers Mill (2024) — Radio Host (voz) (archival footage)
  • From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (2023) — Falstaff
  • Al otro lado del viento (2018) — Journalist (sin acreditar)
  • Embers & Dust (2016) — Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voz) (archive sound)
  • Too Much Johnson (2013) — Keystone Kop (sin acreditar)
  • Magic Mirror Maze (2012)
  • Final Cut: Ladies & Gentlemen (2012) — (archive footage)
  • Jucy (2010) — Elephant Lamp (archive sound)
  • Lucifer et moi (2009) — (archive footage 1982)
  • The Deep (2007) — Russ Brewer
  • The Hitch Hiker (2004) — Ronald Adams
  • The Movie Movie (An Excerpt) (2002) — Archival Footage
  • Moby Dick (2000) — Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)
  • One Man Band (1999) — Presenter / Various
  • Hi-Fi (1999)
  • Someone to Love (1987) — Danny's Friend
  • Transformers: La película (1986) — Unicron (voz)
  • Scene of the Crime (1985)
  • Luz de luna (1985) — Orson Welles
  • ¿Dónde está Parsifal? (1984) — Klingsor
  • The Witching (1983) — Mr. Cato
  • Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983) — Magician (sin acreditar)
  • Hot Money (1983) — Sheriff Paisley
  • Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (1982) — Aliens' Father (voz) (sin acreditar)
  • Wagner e Venezia (1982) — Richard Wagner (voz)
  • La marca de la mariposa (1982) — Judge Rauch
  • Magnum (1980) — Robin Masters (voz)
  • El secreto de Tesla (1980) — J.P. Morgan
  • La película de los Teleñecos (1979) — Lew Lord
  • Los jóvenes leones (1978) — Narratore
  • It Happened One Christmas (1977) — Henry F. Potter
  • Hot Tomorrows (1977) — Parklawn Mortuary (voz)
  • El viaje de los malditos (1976) — José Estedes
  • Diez negritos (1974) — Voice on Tape
  • La quinta ofensiva (1973) — Winston Churchill
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) — Sheridan Whiteside
  • La isla del tesoro (1972) — Long John Silver
  • El hechicero (1972) — Mr. Cato
  • Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) — Mr. Delasandro
  • Malpertuis (1972) — Cassavius
  • La década prodigiosa (1971) — Théo Van Horn
  • Un lugar seguro (1971) — The Magician
  • The Silent Years (1971)
  • An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain (1970)
  • Waterloo (1970) — Louis XVIII
  • Trampa 22 (1970) — Brigadier General Dreedle
  • Empiecen la revolución sin mí (1970) — The Narrator
  • La carta del Kremlin (1970) — Bresnavitch
  • The Merchant of Venice (Rushes) (1970) — Shylock
  • The Merchant of Venice (1969) — Shylock
  • ¿Cuál de las trece? (1969) — Markan
  • La batalla del río Neretva (1969) — Četnik
  • La Estrella del Sur (1969) — Plankett
  • Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat (1969) — Justinian
  • Tepepa (1969) — Colonel Cascorro
  • La invasión de los bárbaros (1968) — Justinian
  • Una Historia Inmortal (1968) — Charles Clay
  • Castillo de naipes (1968) — Leschenhaut
  • Oedipus the King (1968) — Tiresias
  • I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) — Jonathan Lute
  • Casino Royale (1967) — Le Chiffre
  • The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) — Louis de Mozambique
  • Un hombre para la eternidad (1966) — Cardinal Wolsey
  • ¿Arde París? (1966) — Konsul Nordling
  • Campanadas a medianoche (1965) — Falstaff
  • La conquista de un imperio (1965) — Akerman, Marco's Teacher
  • Hotel Internacional (1963) — Max Buda
  • La ricotta (1963)
  • Rogopag (1963) — The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
  • El proceso (1962) — Albert Hastler
  • La Fayette (1962) — Benjamin Franklin
  • Los tártaros (1961) — Burundai
  • Austerlitz (1960) — Robert Fulton
  • An Arabian Night (1960) — Storyteller
  • Una grieta en el espejo (1960) — Hagolin / Lamerciere
  • David y Goliat (1960) — King Saul
  • Escala prohibida (1959) — Captain Hart
  • Impulso criminal (1959) — Jonathan Wilk
  • Las raíces del cielo (1958) — Cy Sedgewick
  • The Fountain of Youth (TV) (1958) — the narrator
  • Colgate Theatre (1958)
  • El largo y cálido verano (1958) — Will Varner
  • Sed de mal (1958) — Police Captain Hank Quinlan
  • Sangre en el rancho (1957) — Virgil Renchler
  • Moby Dick (1956) — Father Mapple
  • Ford Star Jubilee (1955) — Oscar Jaffe
  • Mister Arkadin (1955) — Gregory Arkadin
  • Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955) — An Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab
  • Napoleón (1955) — Sir Hudson Lowe
  • Tres casos de asesinato (1955) — Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
  • Trouble in the Glen (1954) — Sanin Cejador y Mengues
  • Si Versalles pudiera hablar (1953) — Benjamin Franklin
  • King Lear (1953) — King Lear
  • L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1953) — Captain Perella, the Beast
  • El enigma de Manderson (1952) — Sigsbee Manderson
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) — Sheridan Whiteside
  • Otelo (1951) — Othello
  • Te quiero, Lucy (1951) — Orson Welles
  • La rosa negra (1950) — Bayan
  • The Miracle of St. Anne (1950) — The Director
  • El Príncipe de los Zorros (1949) — Cesare Borgia
  • El tercer hombre (1949) — Harry Lime
  • Cagliostro (1949) — Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
  • Macbeth (1948) — Macbeth
  • La dama de Shanghai (1947) — Michael O'Hara
  • El extraño (1946) — Prof. Charles Rankin
  • Mañana es vivir (1946) — John Andrew MacDonald
  • Sueños de gloria (1944) — Orson Welles (sin acreditar)
  • Alma rebelde (1943) — Edward Rochester
  • Estambul (1943) — Colonel Haki
  • Ciudadano Kane (1941) — Charles Foster Kane
  • La familia Robinson suiza (1940) — Opening Narrator (sin acreditar)
  • The Green Goddess (1939) — Rajah/Narrator
  • Corazones del tiempo (1934) — Death