Orson Welles
Directing
- Nacimiento:
- 1915-05-06
- Fallecimiento:
- 1985-10-10
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
War of the Worlds
The Making Of
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
WeirdWorld
Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
The Scorpion and the Frog
Othelo, O Grande
The Battle of Grovers Mill
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
Jim Henson: la audacia de las ideas
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
It's Pretty, but is it Art?
Looking Back Before You Leap
Clint Eastwood: la última leyenda
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Louis Armstrong: Black & Blues
A Jangada de Welles
My Guest is Orson Welles
La Voz de Charlie Chaplin
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
Parkinson at 50
Morceaux de Cannes
Los amigos del barrio: Cómo llegamos a Barrio Sésamo
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Hopper/Welles
Natalie Wood: Entre bambalinas
LIFE BEYOND
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
Al otro lado del viento
Me amarán cuando esté muerto
La mirada de Orson Welles
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie
The Magic History of Cinema
Embers & Dust
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
Este es Orson Welles
Orson Welles, el genio creador
Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso
Too Much Johnson
Jodorowsky's Dune
Talking Pictures
Magic Mirror Maze
The Shadow Knows
Final Cut: Ladies & Gentlemen
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Jucy
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
Hollywood sul Tevere
Lucifer et moi
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
The Deep
Lost in "The Thinking"
Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
Cineastas contra magnates
Druga strana Wellesa
Brunnen
Orson Welles Uncut
Parkinson
The Hitch Hiker
The UFO Conspiracy
L’Affaire Dominici par Orson Welles
Filming 'The Trial'
Histoires de festival
Perdidos en La Mancha
The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)
A Huey P. Newton Story
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
Orson Welles en el país de don Quijote
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Moby Dick
One Man Band
According to Occam's Razor
Hi-Fi
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Tudo é Brasil
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Los primeros 100 años: Un homenaje al cine norteamericano
La Classe américaine
It's All True
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
Working with Orson Welles
Don Quijote de Orson Welles
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
A Linguagem de Orson Welles
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
American Experience
On the tracks of a filmmaker
Someone to Love
Unseen Lollo
Nem Tudo É Verdade
Transformers: La película
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Scene of the Crime
Luz de luna
The Dreamers
Orson Welles' Magic Show
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
Almonds and Raisins
El camino a Bresson
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
In Our Hands
The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
¿Dónde está Parsifal?
The Witching
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
The Psychic Connection
King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
Orson Welles à la Cinémathèque française
Hot Money
Slapstick (Of Another Kind)
Wagner e Venezia
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
The Orson Welles Story
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Genocide
Night of 100 Stars
Doug Henning's World of Magic
La marca de la mariposa
Let Poland Be Poland
Magic with the Stars
The Quest for Fire Adventure
A Gift of Harvest
Brasil
Search for the Titanic
La loca historia del mundo
Tales of the Klondike
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Magnum
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Shōgun
El secreto de Tesla
A un solo paso
The Greenstone
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
To Try Again... and Succeed
Filming Othello
La película de los Teleñecos
The Double McGuffin
The Orson Welles Show
The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
A Woman Called Moses
The Magic of David Copperfield
Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
Los jóvenes leones
The Late Great Planet Earth
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
It Happened One Christmas
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
The Force Beyond
Tut: The Boy King
Hot Tomorrows
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
El viaje de los malditos
NBC: The First Fifty Years
The New Deal for Artists
Cérémonie des César
Bugs Bunny Superstar
A Mother's Tale
Doug Henning's World of Magic
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Who's Out There?
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
Une légende une vie: Citizen Welles
Dinah!
Diez negritos
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Power and Corruption
The Monkey's Paw
Kelly Country
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Fraude
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
La quinta ofensiva
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Cave
The Man Who Came to Dinner
La isla del tesoro
El hechicero
Get to Know Your Rabbit
Malpertuis
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Future Shock
La década prodigiosa
Un lugar seguro
Dirigida por John Ford
The Silent Years
V.I.P. Schaukel
Centinelas del Silencio
فروغ جاودان
Freedom River
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
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
Galería nocturna (Night Gallery)
Is It Always Right to Be Right?
Waterloo
The Enemy Before Us
Trampa 22
Empiecen la revolución sin mí
La carta del Kremlin
Upon This Rock
A Horse Called Nijinsky
The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
The Merchant of Venice
¿Cuál de las trece?
La batalla del río Neretva
La Estrella del Sur
Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat
Tepepa
To Build a Fire
La invasión de los bárbaros
The Name of the Game
Una Historia Inmortal
Castillo de naipes
Around the World of Mike Todd
The Dick Cavett Show
Portrait d'Orson Welles
Oedipus the King
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Viena
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Beggars Would Ride
Omnibus
Le désordre a vingt ans
Casino Royale
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Diez días que estremecieron al mundo
Un hombre para la eternidad
¿Arde París?
Orson Welles in Spain
Campanadas a medianoche
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
Americans on Everest
National Geographic Specials
La conquista de un imperio
Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
A King's Story
Pour le plaisir
The Finest Hours
Nella terra di Don Chisciotte
Hollywood and the Stars
Hotel Internacional
La ricotta
Rogopag
Der große Atlantik
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
El proceso
La Fayette
Tempo
Rey de reyes
Los tártaros
Survival
Austerlitz
An Arabian Night
Una grieta en el espejo
Cinq colonnes à la une: Hong Kong vue par Orson Welles
David y Goliat
High Journey
Escala prohibida
Impulso criminal
Les Seigneurs de la forêt
Las raíces del cielo
The Fountain of Youth (TV)
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Colgate Theatre
South Seas Adventure
Los Vikingos
El largo y cálido verano
Sed de mal
Monitor
Sangre en el rancho
Out of Darkness
Moby Dick
The Steve Allen Show
Cinépanorama
Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers
The Land of the Basques
Around the World with Orson Welles
Ford Star Jubilee
Mister Arkadin
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
Orson Welles' Sketch Book
Napoleón
Tres casos de asesinato
Trouble in the Glen
Reflets de Cannes
Si Versalles pudiera hablar
King Lear
L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù
Return to Glennascaul
Omnibus
El enigma de Manderson
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Otelo
Te quiero, Lucy
Désordre
La rosa negra
What's My Line?
The Miracle of St. Anne
El Príncipe de los Zorros
El tercer hombre
Cagliostro
Macbeth
The Ed Sullivan Show
La dama de Shanghai
Duelo al sol
Battle for Survival
El extraño
Mañana es vivir
Mexico City, Old and New
Sueños de gloria
Know Your Ally: Britain
Alma rebelde
Show-Business at War
Estambul
El cuarto mandamiento
Ciudadano Kane
La familia Robinson suiza
The Green Goddess
The Spanish Earth
Corazones del tiempo
Twelfth Night
Something Else
Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee