Orson Welles
Actor and Director
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A daughter's take on Orson Welles...Falstaff in "Chimes of Midnight." "I learned quite a bit of intimate stuff about Orson and what he was like as a father," says director Peter Bogdanovich, a friend of Welles' who wrote often about him. "None of it surprised me; it all... In this article: Orson Welles, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Falstaff, Manhattan, In My Father's Shadow Bogdanovich, The Third Man, and Citizen Kane |
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Independent.ie | November 06, 2009
So, who really did write 'citizen kane'?
...about Citizen Kane. It was Welles who came up with the revolutionary ideas of lighting -- and shooting -- people from beneath, the extended use of deep focus, and scenes where the camera seems to melt through walls. It was all of this that...
In this article: Herman J Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, Citizen Kane, William Randolph Hearst, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth
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www.washingtonpost.com | January 17, 2007
Liev Schreiber Turns TV Star for `CSI'
...a nudge at times. When he was approached for the part of Welles in "RKO 281," Schreiber hesitated at playing the monumental Hollywood figure and contacted, among others, director and Welles friend Peter Bogdanovich. "He made the...
In this article: Liev Schreiber, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Eric Bogosian, Latex, George Eads, William Petersen, RKO 281, Talk Radio, and Yale School of Drama
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | September 01, 2009
My life with Orson Welles
...completely co-operative. Who was I to challenge Welles? He paid me two boxes of cigars. Welles used to screen the rushes at Peter Bogdanovich's house. A crew member told me he had said: "Joe looks good up there on the screen, but he always...
In this article: Julius Caesar, Citizen Kane, Falstaff, Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, and Mercury Theatre
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
John Ford
...Spielberg, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Peter Bogdanovich, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, Pedro Costa, David Lean, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Quentin Tarantino, John Milius, Satyajit Ray, Francois...
In this article: John Ford, Francis Ford, John Wayne, William Fox, Academy Awards, U.S. Marine, Stagecoach, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, and World War II
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International Herald Tribune | January 28, 2009
Reappraising Hearst, the villain of 'Citizen Kane'
...humanitarian interventions of American history. In a phone conversation this week, Whyte quoted the director and Welles confidant Peter Bogdanovich to the effect that the "brilliant wunderkind of 'Citizen Kane' who grows up to be...
In this article: William Randolph Hearst, Citizen Kane, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ferdinand Lundberg, Peter Shaffer, Peter Bogdanovich, NEW YORK, and Cuba
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Orson Welles Cinema
...Gary Graver, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jim McBride, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray, George Romero, Harold Russell, Francois Truffaut and Orson Welles. After Steven Lisberger premiered his Cosmic Cartoon (1973) at the Welles, the animated...
In this article: Joan Micklin Silver, Cambridge, Gary Graver, and Between the Lines
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This Is Orson Welles
This Is Orson Welles is a 1992 book by Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles, two major film directors, one the legendary creator of Citizen Kane, the other a former journalist-turned-popular-moviemaker of The Last Picture Show fame. Welles...
In this article: Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Bankruptcy, Jonathan Rosenbaum, This Is Orson Welles, Targets, Citizen Kane, John Huston, and Howard Hawks
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Herman J. Mankiewicz
...controversy over who wrote what. (Pauline Kael attributed ''Kane''s screenplay to Mankiewicz in an essay for which she did not interview Welles and has since been hotly disputed by Welles and Peter Bogdanovich.) Much debate has centered around...
In this article: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane, William Randolph Hearst, Pauline Kael, God, New York City, Ben Hecht, and Charles Lederer
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Macbeth (1948 film)
...nothing in stock at Western would fit me, so I was stuck with it. " Welles also told Bogdanovich that the scene he felt was most effective was actually based on hunger. "Our best crowd scene was a shot where all the massed forces of...
In this article: Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Herbert Yates, William Shakespeare, and Peter Bogdanovich
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George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years. 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 20th century. His first two films with RKO: Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, are widely considered two of the greatest ever made. His other films, including Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight, are also considered masterpieces. He was also well-known for a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds which, performed in the style of a news broadcast, reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an actual extraterrestrial invasion was in progress.
In 2002 he was voted as the greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute's poll of Top Ten Directors.
- Name At Birth:
- George Orson Welles
- Birth Date:
- May 06, 1915
- Birthplace:
- Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
- Death Date:
- October 10, 1985
- Place of Death:
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Spouse:
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- Paola Mori (1955-1985)
- Virginia Nicholson (1934-1940)
- Rita Hayworth (1943-1948)
- Domestic Partner:
- Occupation:
- Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
- Years Active:
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