Orson Welles

Portraits (33)
Citizen Kane (1941) (28)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (1)
Jane Eyre (1944) (1)
Follow the Boys (1944) (2)
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) (1)
The Stranger (1946) (18)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) (11)
Macbeth (1948) (2)
The Third Man (1949) (14)
OTHELLO (1952) (5)
Trent's Last Case (1952) (1)
MR ARKADIN (1955) (4)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) (1)
DON QUIXOTE (1957) (1)
Touch of Evil (1958) (10)
Le PROCÈS (1962) (2)
CAMPANADAS A MEDIANOCHE (1966) (5)
A Man for all Seasons (1966) (2)
I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name (1967) (4)
Casino Royale (1967) (5)
Catch-22 (1970) (1)
The OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (1970) (6)
VÉRITÉS ET MENSONGES (1975) (4)
Stills (12)

Highlighted works

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.

Citizen Kane

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.

The Magnificent Ambersons

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.

The Third Man

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.

A Man for all Seasons

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

1934

Hearts of Age Director
Screenplay
Death

1937

The Spanish Earth [narrator - unreleased version]

1938

Too Much Johnson Director

1941

Citizen Kane Director
Producer
Screenplay
Charles Foster Kane
Citizen Kane (Trailer) Director
narrator
It's all True Director [1,3,4]
Producer [1,2,3,4]
Script [1,2,3,4]

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons Director
[Producer]
Screenplay
narrator
Journey into Fear Producer
Script
colonel Haki

1944

Jane Eyre Edward Rochester
Follow the Boys himself

1946

The Stranger Direction
[Screenplay]
Franz Kindler alias Charles Rankin
Duel in the Sun [Narrator]
Tomorrow Is Forever John MacDonald/Erich Kessler

1947

The Lady from Shanghai Production [Director]
Production
Screen Play
Michael O'Hara
Monsieur Verdoux Based on an idea by

1948

Macbeth Directed by
a Mercury production by
Adaptation
Macbeth

1949

Black Magic Cagliostro (Josef Balsamo)
Prince of Foxes Cesare Borgia
The Third Man Harry Lime

1950

The Black Rose Bayan
DESORDRE on-screen participant

1951

Return to Glennascaul introduction/himself

1952

OTHELLO Director
Producer
[Adaptation]
narrator
Othello
Le PETIT MONDE DE DON CAMILLO [Dubbing Director, English version]
voice of Christ [English version]
L' UOMO, LA BESTIA E LA VIRTU cast member
Trent's Last Case Sigsbee Manderson

1953

Three Cases of Murder Lord Mountdrago [1]

1954

Trouble in the Glen The Laird Sanin Cejadory Mengues
SI VERSAILLES M'ÉTAIT CONTÉ Benjamin Franklin

1955

Moby Dick Rehearsed Director
Screenplay
actor-manager/Father Mapple/Captain Ahab
[The Police] [Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant
Bullfighting in Spain Director
Script
host
[Houdini] [Voodoo Story] [John Barrymore] [The People I Missed] [Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant
[The War of the Worlds] [Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant
[Bullfighting] [Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant
The Basque Countries No.1 Director
Script
Host
The Basque Countries No.2 Director
Script
Host
[The Early Days] [Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant
MR ARKADIN Direction
Screen Play/Original Story
[Art Director]
[Costumes]
[Narrator]
Gregory Arkadin
Revisiting Vienna Director
Script
Host
[Critics] [Director]
[Script]
[Presenter]
on-screen participant
NAPOLÉON Hudson Lowe
Orson Welles interviewee

1956

Portrait of Gina Director
Script
himself
Moby Dick Father Mapple

1957

DON QUIXOTE Director
Screenplay
Editor
narrator
himself
voice of Don Quixote/Sancho Panza
Witness for the Prosecution [False Nose Make-up Assistance]
Man in the Shadow Virgil Renchler

1958

Touch of Evil Director
Screenplay by
Hank Quinlan
The Fountain of Youth Director
Producer
Teleplay
Production design
Musical arrangement
Onscreen host/Narrator
Cinerama South Seas Adventure narrator
The Vikings [Narrator]
The Long, Hot Summer Will Varner
The Roots of Heaven Cy Sedgewick

1959

HIGH JOURNEY narrator
Les SEIGNEURS DE LA FORÊT narrator
Compulsion Jonathan Wilk
David e Goliath Saul
Ferry to Hong Kong Captain Cecil Hart

1960

Orson Welles on Stage in Dublin Director
on-screen participant
Crack in the Mirror Hagolin/Lamorcière
Orson Welles interviewee
An Arabian Night storyteller
Austerlitz Fulton

1961

I TARTARI Burundai
King of Kings narrator

1962

Le PROCÈS Director
Screenplay
Hastler, the advocate
Moby Dick Rehearsed Adaptation
Our Representative Will Call Adaptation
LA FAYETTE Benjamin Franklin
Orson Welles interviewee

1963

Orson Welles in Spain [Subject of Film]
cast member
The V.I.P.S Max Buda
ROGOPAG [4] the director
Stanislavsky's Spell on-screen participant

1964

The Finest Hours narrator
Narrator

1965

TREASURE ISLAND Director
Screenplay
Long John Silver [cast only]
Profile No. 6 Orson Welles [Subject of Film]
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees narrator
A King's Story narrator
La FABULEUSE AVENTURE DE MARCO POLO Ackermann

1966

CAMPANADAS A MEDIANOCHE Director
[Screenplay]
[Costume Designer]
Sir John Falstaff
Late Show London[02/02/1966] cast member
Late Show London[05/01/1966] cast member
A Man for all Seasons Cardinal Wolsey
Beggars Would Ride Narrated by [added circa 1980s]
PARIS BRÛLE-T-IL? Consul Raoul Nordling

1967

Ten Days That Shook the World narrator
I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name Jonathan Lute
Oedipus the King Tiresias
Casino Royale Le Chiffre
The Sailor from Gibraltar Louis de Mozambique
Orson Welles interviewee
Orson Welles interviewee

1968

Une HISTOIRE IMMORTELLE Director
Screenplay
narrator
Mr Clay
Orson Welles' Vienna Director
Script
cast member
The Deep Director
Producer
Screenplay
Russ Brewer
Around the World of Mike Todd narrator
House of Cards Charles Leschenhaut
L' ETOILE DU SUD Plankett
KAMPF UM ROM 1. TEIL Emperor Justinian

1969

Orson Welles' London 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]
The Merchant of Venice Director
Screenplay
Shylock
BITKA NA NERETVI Chetnik senator
TEPEPA Colonel Cascarro
Una Su Tredici Markau
KAMPF UM ROM 2. TEIL: DER VERRAT Emperor Justinian
The Kremlin Letter Aleksei Bresnavitch
Start the Revolution without Me narrator