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Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, in Kenosha in Wisconsin, USA. When he was a teenager, he visited Europe, China, and Jamaica with his parents. Orson was eight years old when his mother died. He was playing the role of an old man in "the Sûss Jew" in Dublin in 1932. In 1934, he told the topicality by dramatizing it for a daily edition on N.B.C, and in 1937, he met with John Houseman, Mercury Theatre. He made his first film "The Hearts of Age" at the age of 19 with a false cranium.

On October 30, 1938, he adapted to the radio the novel of H. G Wells: "the War of the Worlds", terrorized America and created a national panic. At 25 Orson was in a paradoxical and unusual situation: to support an immense reputation. He signed with the RKO a contract for Citizen Kane. He delivered not only a good film but "the Film", that which was going to take with against foot all that had been made for 40 years. In 1942, he turned the Magnificent Ambersons, and in 1944, Welles married Rita Hayworth of whom he made the Lady of Shangai in 1946. They divorced in 1947. After making Macbeth, he chose to work outside the United States.

In fact, Welles was never a Hollywood scenario writer because he was not an American child. He profited from a cosmopolitan culture and he will pay this privilege to be able to feel at his place no share. Beat the Devil made in 1957 was his only return to Hollywood. Each of these films reveals the love of the cinema and the pleasure of making some. Parallel to its activity of scenario writer, Welles had all at the same time be a director and actor of theatre, realizer, and actor with the radio, writer, novelist, and playwright without forgetting his career with television and his many interpretations with the cinema.

The last films of Orson Welles seem a reflection of the cinema. But all the difficulties which Welles encountered and which slowed down his creative dash, come from what he was a scriptwriter and poet. For F.Truffaut, the drama of Welles it has been to have passed his evenings for thirty years with all-powerful producers who offered cigars to him but would not have entrusted him a hundred meters of film to impress. Orson Welles died on October 10, 1985.

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Filmography (Director):

Hopper/Welles (Documentary)
2018 The Other Side of the Wind
2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short)
1955-2000 Around the World with Orson Welles (TV Mini-Series documentary)
2000 Moby Dick (Short)
1993 It's All True (Documentary)
1992 Don Quixote (original footage)
1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary)
1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
1972 An Evening with Orson Welles: Chesterton Speeches (Video short)
1972 Don Quixote
1971 London (Short)
1970 The Deep
1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Movie)
1969 The Southern Star (opening scenes, uncredited)
1968 Vienna (Short)
1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie)
1967 The Heroine
1965 Treasure Island (Short)
1965 Chimes at Midnight
1962 The Trial
1962 No Exit (uncredited)
1961 Tempo (TV Series) (1 episode)
1960 David and Goliath (his own scenes, uncredited)
1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (TV Movie documentary)
1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Movie)
1958 Touch of Evil
1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short)
1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie)
1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series)
1955 Confidential Report
1955 Three Cases of Murder (segment "Lord Mountdrago", uncredited)
1951 Othello
1950 The Miracle of St. Anne (Short)
1949 Black Magic (uncredited)
1948 Macbeth
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (uncredited)
1946 The Stranger
1943 It's All True (Documentary)
1943 The Story of Samba (Short)
1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
1941 Citizen Kane
1940 Citizen Kane Trailer (Documentary short)
1939 The Green Goddess (Short)
1938 Too Much Johnson
1934 The Hearts of Age (Short)
1933 Twelfth Night (Short)

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