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Personal Details
Other Works:
Radio:
Filled in for
Jack Benny for several weeks in the spring, when Benny was too ill to appear on his own comedy show.
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Publicity Listings:
16 Biographical Movies
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52 Print Biographies
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21 Portrayals
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52 Articles
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2 Pictorials
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6 Magazine Cover Photos
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Alternate Names:
O.W. Jeeves | G.O. Spelvin | Orson Wells | Wells
Height:
6' 1½" (1.87 m)
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Trivia:
His 1937 Broadway stage production of
William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"--in which the setting was changed to a modern Fascist Rome to reflect the
Benito Mussolini era, but in which Shakespeare's language was completely retained--became, and still remains, the longest-running Broadway production of the play. Welles played Brutus. This production was never filmed, but years later Welles' former...
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Trademark:
Frequently wrote, directed and starred in films that feature the rise and fall of main characters (Charles Foster Kane in
Citizen Kane (1941), Gregory Arkadin in _Confidential Report (1955)_, Detective Hank Quinlan in
Touch of Evil (1958)) who, in classic Shakespearean style, are unmade by their own vices.
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