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Personal details:
Full name:George Orson Welles
Height: 6' 1½" (1.87 m)
Born: 6 May 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
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Known as: Orson Welles / G.O. Spelvin / O.W. Jeeves
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Spouse: Paola Mori (8 May 1955 - 10 October 1985) (his death) 1 child
Rita Hayworth (7 September 1943 - 1 December 1948) (divorced) 1 child
Virginia Nicholson (14 November 1934 - 1 February 1940) (divorced) 1 child
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Salary:
Compulsion (1959): $100,000
The Roots of Heaven (1958): settlement of debts worth $15,000
The Long, Hot Summer (1958): $150,000
Man in the Shadow (1957): $60,000
Moby Dick (1956): £6,000
Trouble in the Glen (1953): £10,000
Black Magic (1949): $100,000
The Third Man (1949): $100,000
Macbeth (1948): $100,000 (for acting, adapting and directing)
The Stranger (1946): $50,000
Jane Eyre (1944): $100,000

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Filmography:

Movies:

  • Apple Jack (short)
  • - Actor (voice) - Year:  2003
  • Moby Dick (short)
  • - Director - Year:  1999
  • The Big Brass Ring
  • - Writer (earlier screenplay) - Year:  1999
  • The Big Brass Ring (short)
  • - Writer - Year:  1997
  • It's All True (documentary)
  • - Director - Year:  1993
  • Don Quixote
  • - Director, Writer - Year:  1992
  • Continental
  • - Acknowledgement - Year:  1989
  • Someone to Love
  • - Danny's Friend - Year:  1987
  • The Transformers: The Movie
  • - Unicron (voice) - Year:  1986
  • The Enchanted Journey
  • - Pippo (voice) - Year:  1984
  • The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (short)
  • - Actor, Director, Writer - Year:  1984
  • Hot Money
  • - Sheriff Paisley - Year:  1983
  • Where Is Parsifal?
  • - Klingsor - Year:  1983
  • Slapstick (Of Another Kind)
  • - Father of the Aliens (voice) - Year:  1982
  • Trick or Treats
  • - Consultant - Year:  1982
  • Butterfly
  • - Judge Rauch - Year:  1982
  • History of the World: Part I
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1981
  • The Greenstone (short)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1980
  • Step Away
  • - Narrator - Year:  1980
  • Tajna Nikole Tesle
  • - J.P. Morgan - Year:  1980
  • The Double McGuffin
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1979
  • The Muppet Movie
  • - Lew Lord - Year:  1979
  • The Biggest Battle
  • - Narrator - Year:  1978
  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner (short)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1977
  • Some Call It Greed
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1977
  • Hot Tomorrows
  • - Parklawn Mortuary (voice) - Year:  1977
  • Voyage of the Damned
  • - Estedes - Year:  1976
  • Ten Little Indians
  • - Voice of Tape (voice) - Year:  1974
  • Get to Know Your Rabbit
  • - Mr. Delasandro - Year:  1972
  • The Other Side of the Wind
  • - Director, Writer, Editor (first 50 minutes, unfinished) - Year:  1972
  • Necromancy
  • - Mr. Cato - Year:  1972
  • Treasure Island
  • - Long John Silver, Writer (screenplay) (as O.W. Jeeves) - Year:  1972
  • London (short)
  • - Actor, Director, Writer - Year:  1971
  • The Legend of Doom House
  • - Cassavius - Year:  1971
  • Ten Days Wonder
  • - Theo Van Horn - Year:  1971
  • A Safe Place
  • - Magician - Year:  1971
  • The Deep
  • - Russ Brewer, Director, Writer, Producer - Year:  1970
  • Is It Always Right to Be Right? (short)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1970
  • Waterloo
  • - King Louis XVIII - Year:  1970
  • Catch
  • -22 - Brig. Gen. Dreedle - Year:  1970
  • Start the Revolution Without Me
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1970
  • The Kremlin Letter
  • - Bresnavitch, Head of Soviet Politburo/Grodin's Father-in-Law - Year:  1970
  • The Battle of Neretva
  • - Chetnik senator - Year:  1969
  • Una su 13
  • - Markan - Year:  1969
  • The Southern Star
  • - Plankett, Director (opening scenes; uncredited) - Year:  1969
  • Kampf um Rom II
  • - Der Verrat - Justinian - Year:  1969
  • Long Live the Revolution
  • - Colonel Cascorro - Year:  1968
  • Vienna (short)
  • - Actor, Director, Writer, Producer - Year:  1968
  • The Last Roman
  • - Emperor Justinian - Year:  1968
  • House of Cards
  • - Leschenhaut - Year:  1968
  • The Immortal Story
  • - Mr. Charles Clay, Director, Writer - Year:  1968
  • I'll Never Forget What's'isname
  • - Jonathan Lute - Year:  1967
  • Oedipus the King
  • - Tiresias - Year:  1967
  • The Sailor from Gibraltar
  • - Louis de Mozambique - Year:  1967
  • Casino Royale
  • - Le Chiffre - Year:  1967
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • - Cardinal Wolsey - Year:  1966
  • Is Paris Burning?
  • - Consul Raoul Nordling - Year:  1966
  • The Bible
  • - Writer (uncredited) - Year:  1966
  • Campanadas a medianoche
  • - Falstaff, Director, Writer - Year:  1965
  • Marco the Magnificent
  • - Akerman, Marco's Tutor - Year:  1965
  • The V.I.P.s
  • - Max Buda - Year:  1963
  • Ro.Go.Pa.G.
  • - The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta") - Year:  1963
  • The Trial
  • - Hastler (The Advocate), Director, Writer (screenplay), Editor (uncredited) - Year:  1962
  • Sinners Go to Hell
  • - Director (uncredited) - Year:  1962
  • Lafayette
  • - Benjamin Franklin - Year:  1962
  • I Tartari
  • - Burundai - Year:  1961
  • King of Kings
  • - Narrator (voice) (uncredited) - Year:  1961
  • The Battle of Austerlitz
  • - Robert Fulton - Year:  1960
  • Crack in the Mirror
  • - Hagolin/Lamerciere - Year:  1960
  • David and Goliath
  • - King Saul, Director (his own scenes; uncredited) - Year:  1960
  • High Journey
  • - Narrator - Year:  1959
  • Ferry to Hong Kong
  • - Captain Hart - Year:  1959
  • Compulsion
  • - Jonathan Wilk - Year:  1959
  • The Roots of Heaven
  • - Cy Sedgewick - Year:  1958
  • The Vikings
  • - Narrator (voice) (uncredited) - Year:  1958
  • Touch of Evil
  • - Police Captain Hank Quinlan, Director, Writer (screenplay) - Year:  1958
  • The Long, Hot Summer
  • - Will Varner - Year:  1958
  • Man in the Shadow
  • - Virgil Renchler - Year:  1957
  • Moby Dick
  • - Father Mapple - Year:  1956
  • Mr. Arkadin
  • - Gregory Arkadin, Director, Writer (novel), Producer, Editor (uncredited), Costume Designer (uncredited), Art Director (uncredited) - Year:  1955
  • Napoléon
  • - Sir Hudson Lowe - Year:  1955
  • Three Cases of Murder
  • - Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) - Year:  1955
  • Royal Affairs in Versailles
  • - Benjamin Franklin/Narrator, dubbed version - Year:  1954
  • Trouble in the Glen
  • - Sanin Cejador y Mengues - Year:  1953
  • L'Uomo, la bestia e la virtù
  • - Captain Perella, the Beast - Year:  1953
  • Othello
  • - Othello, Director (uncredited), Writer (uncredited), Producer (uncredited) - Year:  1952
  • Trent's Last Case
  • - Sigsbee Manderson - Year:  1952
  • The Little World of Don Camillo
  • - Narrator in American version (voice) - Year:  1952
  • The Black Rose
  • - Bayan - Year:  1950
  • Portrait d'un assassin
  • - Production Designer (uncredited) - Year:  1949
  • Prince of Foxes
  • - Cesare Borgia - Year:  1949
  • Black Magic
  • - Charlatan Cagliostro, Director (uncredited) - Year:  1949
  • The Third Man
  • - Harry Lime, Writer (uncredited) - Year:  1949
  • Macbeth
  • - Macbeth, Director, Writer (adaptation) (uncredited), Producer, Costume Designer (uncredited), Set Designer (uncredited) - Year:  1948
  • The Lady from Shanghai
  • - Michael O'Hara, Director (uncredited), Writer, Producer - Year:  1947
  • Monsieur Verdoux
  • - Writer (idea) - Year:  1947
  • Duel in the Sun
  • - Narrator (voice) (uncredited) - Year:  1946
  • The Stranger
  • - Dr. Charles Rankin/Franz Kindler, Director, Writer (uncredited) - Year:  1946
  • Tomorrow Is Forever
  • - John Andrew MacDonald/Erik Kessler - Year:  1946
  • Jane Eyre
  • - Edward Rochester, Producer (uncredited) - Year:  1944
  • Journey Into Fear
  • - Colonel Haki, Head of Turkish Secret Police, Director (uncredited), Writer (uncredited), Producer (uncredited) - Year:  1943
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer (uncredited), Cinematographer (uncredited) - Year:  1942
  • Citizen Kane
  • - Charles Foster Kane, Director, Writer (screenplay), Producer - Year:  1941
  • Swiss Family Robinson
  • - Narration (voice) (uncredited) - Year:  1940
  • Too Much Johnson (short)
  • - Keystone Kop, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor - Year:  1938
  • The Hearts of Age (short)
  • - Death, Director, Writer - Year:  1934
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (TV movie)
  • - Writer (1942 screenplay) - Year:  2002
  • Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV short)
  • - Actor, Director, Writer, Producer - Year:  1985
  • Scene of the Crime (TV series)
  • - Host - Year:  1984
  • Baryshnikov in Hollywood (TV movie)
  • - Actor - Year:  1982
  • Tales of the Klondike (TV mini
  • -series) - Narrator - Year:  1981
  • Shogun (TV mini
  • -series) - Narrator (original version) (voice) - Year:  1980
  • Shogun (TV movie)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1980
  • The Orson Welles Show (TV series)
  • - Director (as G.O. Spelvin) - Year:  1979
  • Tut: The Boy King (TV movie)
  • - Host - Year:  1978
  • A Woman Called Moses (TV movie)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1978
  • It Happened One Christmas (TV movie)
  • - Henry F. Potter - Year:  1977
  • Rikki
  • -Tikki-Tavi (TV short) - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1975
  • Great Mysteries (TV series)
  • - Host - Year:  1973
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner (TV movie)
  • - Sheridan Whiteside - Year:  1972
  • The Silent Years (TV series)
  • - Host - Year:  1971
  • Upon This Rock (TV movie)
  • - Michelangelo - Year:  1970
  • The Merchant of Venice (TV movie)
  • - Shylock, Director, Writer - Year:  1969
  • In the Land of Don Quixote (TV series)
  • - Actor, Director, Producer, Editor, Additional Photographer - Year:  1964
  • The Fountain of Youth (TV short)
  • - Host/narrator, Director, Writer, Designer, Music Arranger - Year:  1958
  • Orson Welles and People (TV movie)
  • - Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer, Music Arranger, Production Designer - Year:  1956
  • Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV movie)
  • - An Actor Manager/Father Mapple/Ahab, Director, Writer - Year:  1955
  • The Orson Welles Sketchbook (TV series)
  • - Director - Year:  1955
  • King Lear (TV movie)
  • - Lear - Year:  1953

    Himself/Herself:

  • The Best of Film Noir (video documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1999
  • Who Is Henry Jaglom? (documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1997
  • Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (documentary)
  • - Professor (in War of the Worlds broadcast) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) - Year:  1991
  • Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (documentary)
  • - Himself (from 1938 radio broadcast) (voice) (uncredited) - Year:  1991
  • John Ford (TV documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1990
  • Hollywood Mavericks (documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1990
  • Almonds and Raisins (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1984
  • In Our Hands (documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1984
  • The Road to Bresson (documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1984
  • The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston (TV special documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1983
  • Orson Welles à la cinémathèque (TV movie)
  • - Himself - Year:  1983
  • Night of 100 Stars (TV special)
  • - Himself - Year:  1982
  • Magic with the Stars (TV special)
  • - Host - Year:  1982
  • Genocide (documentary)
  • - Himself/Narrator (voice) - Year:  1981
  • Search for the Titanic (documentary)
  • - Actor - Year:  1981
  • The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (documentary)
  • - Presenter/Narrator - Year:  1980
  • Sinatra: The First 40 Years (TV special)
  • - Actor - Year:  1980
  • The Late Great Planet Earth (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1979
  • Filming 'Othello' (documentary)
  • - Host, Director, Writer - Year:  1978
  • The Magic of David Copperfield (TV special)
  • - Himself - Year:  1978
  • Mysterious Castles of Clay (documentary)
  • - Narrator - Year:  1978
  • NBC: The First Fifty Years
  • - A Closer Look, Part Two (TV documentary) - Narrator - Year:  1978
  • The Lions of Capitalism (documentary)
  • - Narrator - Year:  1977
  • NBC: The First Fifty Years
  • - A Closer Look (TV documentary) - Himself/Narrator, Writer - Year:  1976
  • Bugs Bunny Superstar (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1976
  • F for Fake (documentary)
  • - Himself, Director, Writer, Editor (uncredited) - Year:  1976
  • The American Film Institute Salute to Orson Welles (TV special)
  • - Himself - Year:  1975
  • Who's Out There? (documentary short)
  • - Host - Year:  1975
  • The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (documentary)
  • - Actor - Year:  1974
  • Une légende une vie: Citizen Welles (TV documentary)
  • - Himself - Year:  1974
  • Soft Self
  • -Portrait of Salvador Dali (documentary) - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1971
  • Directed by John Ford (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1971
  • Sentinels of Silence (documentary short)
  • - Narrator (English) (voice) - Year:  1971
  • The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
  • - Himself - Honorary Award Recipient (pre-recorded) - Year:  1971
  • Around the World of Mike Todd (documentary)
  • - Narrator - Year:  1968
  • Portrait: Orson Welles (TV short)
  • - Himself - Year:  1968
  • Disorder Is 20 Years Old (documentary)
  • - Actor - Year:  1967
  • A King's Story (documentary)
  • - Narrator - Year:  1965
  • The Finest Hours (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1964
  • Americans on Everest (TV documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1963
  • Interview with Orson Welles (TV movie)
  • - Himself - Year:  1960
  • Masters of the Congo Jungle (documentary)
  • - Narrator, English Language Version (voice) - Year:  1959
  • Portrait of Gina (TV documentary)
  • - Host, Director, Writer - Year:  1958
  • Cinerama South Seas Adventure (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1958
  • Around the World with Orson Welles (TV series documentary)
  • - Host, Director, Writer (writer) - Year:  1955
  • Return to Glennascaul (short)
  • - Himself - Year:  1951
  • Disorder (documentary short)
  • - Himself - Year:  1949
  • Battle for Survival (documentary)
  • - Narrator - Year:  1947
  • Three Cheers for the Boys
  • - Himself - Year:  1944
  • Show Business at War (documentary short)
  • - Himself - Year:  1943
  • Tanks (documentary short)
  • - Narrator (voice) - Year:  1942
  • The Spanish Earth (documentary)
  • - Narrator (English version) (later replaced by Ernest Hemingway) (voice) - Year:  1937

    TV Guest

  • Continental
  • - Acknowledgement
  • The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (short)
  • - Actor, Director, Writer
  • Where Is Parsifal?
  • - Klingsor
  • Trick or Treats
  • - Consultant
  • Step Away
  • - Narrator
  • Some Call It Greed
  • - Narrator (voice)
  • London (short)
  • - Actor, Director, Writer
  • The Deep
  • - Russ Brewer, Director, Writer, Producer
  • Waterloo
  • - King Louis XVIII
  • The Battle of Neretva
  • - Chetnik senator
  • The Southern Star
  • - Plankett, Director (opening scenes; uncredited)
  • Long Live the Revolution
  • - Colonel Cascorro
  • The Immortal Story
  • - Mr. Charles Clay, Director, Writer
  • Oedipus the King
  • - Tiresias
  • Lafayette
  • - Benjamin Franklin
  • High Journey
  • - Narrator
  • Royal Affairs in Versailles
  • - Benjamin Franklin/Narrator, dubbed version
  • L'Uomo, la bestia e la virtù
  • - Captain Perella, the Beast
  • The Black Rose
  • - Bayan
  • Prince of Foxes
  • - Cesare Borgia
  • Too Much Johnson (short)
  • - Keystone Kop, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
  • Tales of the Klondike (TV mini
  • -series) - Narrator
  • Shogun (TV movie)
  • - Narrator (voice)
  • Tut: The Boy King (TV movie)
  • - Host
  • It Happened One Christmas (TV movie)
  • - Henry F. Potter
  • Great Mysteries (TV series)
  • - Host
  • The Silent Years (TV series)
  • - Host
  • The Merchant of Venice (TV movie)
  • - Shylock, Director, Writer
  • The Fountain of Youth (TV short)
  • - Host/narrator, Director, Writer, Designer, Music Arranger
  • Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV movie)
  • - An Actor Manager/Father Mapple/Ahab, Director, Writer
  • John Ford (TV documentary)
  • - Himself
  • Almonds and Raisins (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice)
  • The Road to Bresson (documentary)
  • - Himself
  • Orson Welles à la cinémathèque (TV movie)
  • - Himself
  • Magic with the Stars (TV special)
  • - Host
  • Search for the Titanic (documentary)
  • - Actor
  • Sinatra: The First 40 Years (TV special)
  • - Actor
  • Filming 'Othello' (documentary)
  • - Host, Director, Writer
  • Mysterious Castles of Clay (documentary)
  • - Narrator
  • The Lions of Capitalism (documentary)
  • - Narrator
  • Bugs Bunny Superstar (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice)
  • The American Film Institute Salute to Orson Welles (TV special)
  • - Himself
  • The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (documentary)
  • - Actor
  • Soft Self
  • -Portrait of Salvador Dali (documentary) - Narrator (voice)
  • Sentinels of Silence (documentary short)
  • - Narrator (English) (voice)
  • Around the World of Mike Todd (documentary)
  • - Narrator
  • Disorder Is 20 Years Old (documentary)
  • - Actor
  • The Finest Hours (documentary)
  • - Narrator (voice)
  • Interview with Orson Welles (TV movie)
  • - Himself
  • Portrait of Gina (TV documentary)
  • - Host, Director, Writer
  • Disorder (documentary short)
  • - Himself
  • Tanks (documentary short)
  • - Narrator (voice)
  • Rita (TV documentary)
  • - Himself
  • Pulp Cinema (video documentary)
  • - Himself
  • Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth (TV documentary short)
  • - Himself
  • Shylock (documentary)
  • - Shylock
  • Martian Mania: The True Story of The War of the Worlds (TV documentary)
  • - Himself
  • Orson Welles: The One
  • -Man Band (documentary) - Himself
  • The War of the Worlds: Great Books (video documentary short)
  • - Himself (explaining that the broadcast was of the H.G. Wells story)
  • Don Quixote
  • - Himself (in new version)
  • Stars and Stripes (documentary)
  • - Himself
  • Notre Dame de la Croisette (documentary)
  • - Himself (uncredited)
  • America at the Movies (documentary)

  • The South Bank Show playing Othello (archive footage), episode "Othello" (#27.12), 16 May 2004

  • The ABC Comedy Hour playing Himself, 26 January 1972

  • The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine playing Himself, episode (#1.6)

  • The Name of the Game playing Narrator, episode "The Enemy Before Us" (#3.5), 16 October 1970

  • The David Frost Show playing Himself, 9 June 1970

  • The Jackie Gleason Show playing Himself, episode (#3.2), 5 October 1968

  • The Dean Martin Show playing Himself, 14 September 1967

  • What's My Line? playing Guest Panelist, 6 April 1958

  •