Biography: life and films
Orson Welles was an American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer whose birth name was George Orson Welles. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA on 6th May 1915 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 10th October 1985, aged 70.His best films as an actor include Carol Reed's thriller The Third Man (1949), Othello (1952), Mr. Arkadin (1955), Touch of Evil (1958) and Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo (1970), and whose best work as a film director include Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Othello (1952), Touch of Evil (1958) and Le Procès (1962).
Orson Welles appeared in 104 films, directed 25 films (including 2 shorts), scripted 24 films and was cinematographer on 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: John Huston (4 films), Richard Fleischer (3), Robert Siodmak (2), Peter Baylis (2), Herbert Wilcox (2), Henry Jaglom (2) and (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (53 films), Documentary (25), history (16), comedy (14), War (12), Thriller (12), Biography (8), comedy-drama (6), crime-thriller (5), romance (4) and Horror (3).
Our average rating for Orson Welles over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer; c = cinematographer
The Spanish Earth (1937) [a]
Swiss Family Robinson (1940) [a]
Citizen Kane (1941) [a,d]
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) [a,d,w,c]
Journey Into Fear (1943) [a,d,w]
Jane Eyre (1944) [a]
The Stranger (1946) [a,d,w]
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) [a]
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) [a,d,w]
Macbeth (1948) [a,d,w]
Black Magic (1949) [a,d]
Prince of Foxes (1949) [a]
The Third Man (1949) [a,w]
The Black Rose (1950) [a]
Othello (1952) [a,d,w]
Trent's Last Case (1952) [a]
L'Uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1953) [a]
Trouble in the Glen (1954) [a]
Mr. Arkadin (1955) [a,d,w]
Three Cases of Murder (1955) [a]
Moby Dick (1956) [a]
South Seas Adventure (1958) [a]
The Long, Hot Summer (1958) [a]
The Roots of Heaven (1958) [a]
The Vikings (1958) [a]
Touch of Evil (1958) [a,d,w]
Compulsion (1959) [a]
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) [a]
Les Seigneurs de la forêt (1959) [a]
Crack in the Mirror (1960) [a]
David e Golia (1960) [a,d]
I tartari (1961) [a]
Le Procès (1962) [a,d,w]
No Exit (1962) [d]
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) [a]
The V.I.P.s (1963) [a]
The Finest Hours (1964) [a]
Campanadas a medianoche (1965) [a,d,w]
La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (1965) [a]
Chimes at Midnight (Falstaff) (1965) [a,d,w]
A Man for All Seasons (1966) [a]
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) [w]
A King's Story (1967) [a]
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) [a]
Oedipus the King (1967) [a]
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) [a]
House of Cards (1968) [a]
Kampf um Rom I (1968) [a]
The Immortal Story (1968) [a,d,w]
12 + 1 (1969) [a]
Bitka na Neretvi (1969) [a]
Tepepa (1969) [a]
The Southern Star (1969) [a,d]
Catch-22 (1970) [a]
Salvador Dalí (1970) [a]
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) [a]
The Deep (1970) [a,d,w]
The Kremlin Letter (1970) [a]
Waterloo (1970) [a]
A Safe Place (1971) [a]
Directed by John Ford (1971) [a]
La Décade prodigieuse (1971) [a]
Malpertuis (1971) [a]
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) [a]
Necromancy (1972) [a]
The Other Side of the Wind (1972) [d,w]
The Shah of Iran (1972) [a]
Treasure Island (1972) [a]
Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab (1974) [a]
Vérités et mensonges (1974) [a,d,w]
Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975) [a]
Hot Tomorrows (1977) [a]
Some Call It Greed (1977) [a]
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1977) [a]
Filming 'Othello' (1978) [a,d,w]
Il Grande attacco (1978) [a]
Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978) [a]
The Force Beyond (1978) [a]
The Double McGuffin (1979) [a]
The Late Great Planet Earth (1979) [a]
The Muppet Movie (1979) [a]
Filming 'The Trial' (1981) [a,d,w]
History of the World: Part I (1981) [a]
Search for the Titanic (1981) [a]
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981) [a]
Butterfly (1982) [a]
Genocide (1982) [a]
Hot Money (1983) [a]
Where Is Parsifal? (1983) [a]
Almonds and Raisins (1984) [a]
De weg naar Bresson (1984) [a]
In Our Hands (1984) [a]
Someone to Love (1987) [a]
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) [a]
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992) [a,d,w]
It's All True (1993) [a]
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) [a]
Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997) [a]
Jucy (2010) [a]
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
The greatest French film directors
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
