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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.

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Self / The Director / Sir John Falstaff (archive footage) (uncredited)

WeirdWorld
as Troy2000 (Archive footage)

Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
as Self (archive footage)

Human Nature in Eleven Parts
as Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)

The Scorpion and the Frog
as Narrator (archive footage)

Othelo The Great
as Self (archive footage)

The Battle of Grovers Mill
as Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
as Self

Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
as Falstaff

It's Pretty, but is it Art?
as Self (voiceover)

Looking Back Before You Leap
as General Zaroff (voice)

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)

American: An Odyssey to 1947
as Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)

The Welles Raft
as Himself (Archive Footage)

The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)

Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
as Self

Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)

Morceaux de Cannes

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
as Self (archive footage)

Hopper/Welles
as Self

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
as Self (archive footage)

LIFE BEYOND
as Self (voice)

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
as (archive footage)

The Other Side of the Wind
as Journalist (uncredited)

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage)

The Eyes of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Magic History of Cinema

Embers & Dust
as Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)

This Is Orson Welles
as Self

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)

Too Much Johnson
as Keystone Kop

Jodorowsky's Dune
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)

Magic Mirror Maze

The Shadow Knows
as Self (archive footage)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
as Self

Jucy
as Elephant Lamp (archive sound)

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
as Himself

Hollywood sul Tevere

Lucifer et moi
as (archive footage 1982)

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
as Self (archive)

The Deep
as Russ Brewer

Lost in "The Thinking"
as Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
as (Self)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self (archive footage)

The Other Side of Welles
as Self (archive footage)

The Well

Orson Welles Uncut

The Hitch Hiker
as Ronald Adams
The UFO Conspiracy
as Self (archive sound)

The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
as Self (archive footage)

Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)

Lost in La Mancha
as Self (archive footage)