
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.

The Merchant of Venice

市民ケーン

黒い罠

It's All True

審判

Vérités et Mensonges

Othello

上海から来た女

偉大なるアンバーソン家の人々

Macbeth

Filming Othello

オーソン・ウェルズINストレンジャー

Campanadas a medianoche

The Immortal Story

Filming 'The Trial'

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

Mr. Arkadin

Around the World with Orson Welles

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

The Other Side of the Wind

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

Orson Welles' Magic Show

Don Quijote de Orson Welles

The Fountain of Youth

Vienna

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

Twelfth Night

The Orson Welles Show

Hopper/Welles

The Hearts of Age

Too Much Johnson

The Dreamers

The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)

Nella terra di Don Chisciotte

The Land of the Basques

It's All True: Four Men on a Raft

The Deep

Cinq colonnes à la une: Hong Kong vue par Orson Welles

Moby Dick

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill

Moby Dick—Rehearsed

The Heroine

Citizen Kane Trailer

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince

An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain

An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow

An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah

An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy

One Man Band

The Miracle of St. Anne

Colgate Theatre

Tempo

Parkinson at 50

A Horse Called Nijinsky

WeirdWorld

Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

The Orson Welles Story

Hallmark Hall of Fame

King Lear

The Merchant of Venice

Doug Henning's World of Magic

Cinépanorama

Survival

市民ケーン

第三の男

I Love Lucy

ホドロフスキーのDUNE

Night Gallery

黒い罠

ジム・ヘンソン:アイディアマン

It's All True

To Build a Fire

将軍 SHŌGUN

La Classe américaine

こちらブルームーン探偵社

The Real Charlie Chaplin

ストリートギャング ~セサミストリートにたどり着くまで~

Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim

Brasil

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

審判

ジェノサイド ナチスの虐殺 ホロコーストの真実

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Vérités et Mensonges

Othello

わが命つきるとも

上海から来た女

偉大なるアンバーソン家の人々

私立探偵マグナム

Macbeth

Filming Othello

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Bugs Bunny Superstar

マペットの夢みるハリウッド

オーソン・ウェルズINストレンジャー

ロゴパグ

Omnibus

Campanadas a medianoche

パリは燃えているか

This Is Orson Welles

Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende

トランスフォーマー ザ・ムービー

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

ワーテルロー

Compulsion

The Immortal Story

King of Kings

Lost in La Mancha

白鯨

The Vikings

A Linguagem de Orson Welles

長く熱い夜

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

ジェーンへの手紙

Filming 'The Trial'

Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat

Show-Business at War

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie

The Magic of David Copperfield

A Woman Called Moses

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

What's My Line?

ジェーン・エア

Mr. Arkadin

Directed by John Ford

Around the World with Orson Welles

National Geographic Specials

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

The Dick Cavett Show

De weg naar Bresson

Centinelas del Silencio

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

The Name of the Game

Bitka na Neretvi

メル・ブルックス/珍説世界史PART I

Man in the Shadow

The Other Side of the Wind

ルイ・アームストロング Black & Blues

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

Embers & Dust

Night of 100 Stars

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Dinah!

キャッチ22

Crack in the Mirror

Si Versailles m'était conté

The Black Rose

Austerlitz

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

American Experience

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù

Tepepa

The Spanish Earth

Return to Glennascaul

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

Nem Tudo É Verdade

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Malpertuis

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

グリックの冒険

Sutjeska

白昼の決闘

Who's Out There?

Orson Welles' Magic Show

The Finest Hours

Freedom River

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Napoléon

Black Magic

Tudo é Brasil

Is It Always Right to Be Right?

Ten Days That Shook the World

Cineastes contra magnats

The Merv Griffin Show

Talking Pictures

Tajna Nikole Tesle

Tomorrow Is Forever

Prince of Foxes

予期せぬ出来事

Don Quijote de Orson Welles

La Décade prodigieuse

The Fountain of Youth

The Roots of Heaven

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Journey into Fear

The Kremlin Letter

L’Affaire Dominici par Orson Welles

Hot Tomorrows

Voyage of the Damned

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Notre Dame de la Croisette

The Paranormal Peter Sellers

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

Twelfth Night

Vienna

The Orson Welles Show

The Quest for Fire Adventure

High Journey

Around the World of Mike Todd

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?

Omnibus

Hollywood and the Stars

Hopper/Welles

Three Cases of Murder

Start the Revolution Without Me

The Southern Star

Mysterious Castles of Clay

Portrait: Orson Welles

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art

Treasure Island

I tartari

A King's Story

South Seas Adventure

And Then There Were None

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Swiss Family Robinson

The Steve Allen Show

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Trouble in the Glen

Orson Welles en el país de don Quijote

Working with Orson Welles

Ferry to Hong Kong

Kampf um Rom – 1. Teil

Oedipus the King

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Follow the Boys

Too Much Johnson

Someone to Love

The Hearts of Age

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

007/カジノロワイヤル

Trent's Last Case

12 + 1

A Safe Place

La Fayette

A Huey P. Newton Story

The Dreamers

Orson Welles in Spain

Désordre

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles

The Scorpion and the Frog

Hi-Fi

The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)

Scene of the Crime

The Double McGuffin

汝のウサギを知れ

Nella terra di Don Chisciotte

Butterfly

La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo

House of Cards

Know Your Ally: Britain

Necromancy

Il grande attacco

It Happened One Christmas

The Late Great Planet Earth

The Force Beyond

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview

Histoires de festival

David e Golia

Cérémonie des César

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali

Where Is Parsifal?

Slapstick of Another Kind

Hot Money

Reflets de Cannes

The Greenstone

The Deep

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

According to Occam's Razor

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

American: An Odyssey to 1947

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

Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

The Witching

Magic with the Stars

The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles

The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon

Othelo, O Grande

Looking Back Before You Leap

It's Pretty, but is it Art?

فروغ جاودان

Upon This Rock

Tut: The Boy King

The Shadow Knows

Lucifer et moi

On the tracks of a filmmaker

The Battle of Grovers Mill

Moby Dick

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon

Brunnen

From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural

NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3

The Hitch Hiker

A Jangada de Welles

Orson Welles à la Cinémathèque française

Druga strana Wellesa

The Cave

The Psychic Connection

Baryshnikov in Hollywood

Let Poland Be Poland

Doug Henning's World of Magic

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Wagner e Venezia

The New Deal for Artists

Almonds and Raisins

The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis

Search for the Titanic

A Gift of Harvest

NBC: The First Fifty Years

Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !

Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles

The Land of the Basques

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

Beggars Would Ride

Magic Mirror Maze

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters

Lost in "The Thinking"

Human Nature in Eleven Parts

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill

Moby Dick—Rehearsed

Profile No. 6: Orson Welles

Orson Welles at The Magic Castle

Citizen Kane Trailer

Hollywood sul Tevere

Orson Welles Uncut

Cinq colonnes à la une: Hong Kong vue par Orson Welles

An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince

An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain

An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow

An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah

An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy

One Man Band

The Miracle of St. Anne

Colgate Theatre

Tempo

LIFE BEYOND

Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck