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Orson Welles

Orson Welles

cumpleaños: 1915-05-06 | lugar de nacimiento: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, 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,[2] 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. 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.

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2025
Human Nature in Eleven Parts

as    Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)

2024
Othelo, O Grande

as    Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)

2024
LIFE BEYOND: Visions of Alien Life

as    Narrator (Archive Sound)

2024
The Battle of Grovers Mill

as    Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)

2024
Jim Henson, o Homem-Ideia

as    Self (archive footage)

2023
Looking Back Before You Leap

as    General Zaroff (voice)

2023
AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special

as    Self (archive footage)

2023
It's Pretty, but is it Art?

as    Self (voiceover)

2022
A Jangada de Welles

as    Himself (Archive Footage)

2022
Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende

as    Self (archive footage)

2021
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

as    Himself (archive footage)

2020
Hopper/Welles

as    Self

2019
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

as    (archive footage)

2019
LIFE BEYOND I: The Dawn

as    Narrator

2018
Serei amado quando morrer

as    Self (archive footage)