Orson Welles - a Maverick Filmmaker.
Few directors have been held in such high or controversial regard, as that of Orson Welles. From the beginning of his career, he was determined to make films his way and not the studio way. His battles with the Hollywood system have long since become part of his legacy. To this day, there are several film projects which, for various reasons, Orson Welles failed to finish. He sometimes had to accept acting roles in order to finance his own projects. Welles shall forever be remembered for being an original filmmaker.
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- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'An outstanding directorial debut.
- DirectorOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores CostelloThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.It's unlikely that the edited footage shall be discovered any time soon. What there is, is quite interesting but the narrative soon begins to suffer from all the editing.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsRita HayworthOrson WellesEverett SloaneFascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.An underrated movie.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesEdward G. RobinsonLoretta YoungAn investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.Didn't fulfil its potential but some of the film works.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanette NolanDan O'HerlihyMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesMicheál MacLiammóirRobert CooteThe Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanne MoreauMargaret RutherfordWhen King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff's eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of Henry V.
- DirectorOrson WellesGary GraverOja KodarStarsOrson WellesOja KodarFrançois ReichenbachA documentary about fraud and fakery.More of a documentary than a film.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsAnthony PerkinsArnoldo FoàJess HahnAn unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsCharlton HestonOrson WellesJanet LeighA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.Welles' intended version has finally been preserved.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesPeter van EyckMichael RedgraveAn elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape.The narrative is disjointed throughout but there are several highlights.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.Although he has limited screen time, Welles stole the film.
- DirectorNorman FosterOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDolores Del RíoAn American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.Too loosely plotted and uneventful. It doesn't help matters that the film was cut by 20 minutes before being released.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsOrson WellesJoan FontaineMargaret O'BrienAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- DirectorDavid EadyGeorge More O'FerrallWendy ToyeStarsOrson WellesJohn GregsonElizabeth SellarsA trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.Merely passing the time.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsMichael WildingMargaret LockwoodOrson WellesAfter a wealthy businessman is found dead, reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.Tedious and bland, Welles improves it.
- DirectorVal GuestKen HughesJohn HustonStarsDavid NivenPeter SellersUrsula AndressIn an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsOliver ReedOrson WellesCarol WhiteThe professional and romantic misadventures of an advertising executive in 1960s swinging London.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsGregory PeckRichard BasehartLeo GennThe sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanne MoreauRoger CoggioIn Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsJoseph CottenVirginia NicolsonEdgar BarrierA woman has two lovers. When one man finds out about the other, he acts as a villain and chases after the protagonist.This was a lost film for many years.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsClaudette ColbertOrson WellesGeorge BrentAn American World War I soldier whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons returns home after 20 years, but no one recognizes him, his widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsFernandelGino CerviVera TalchiA determined priest and a Communist mayor develop a grudging friendship in spite of their official rivalry.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardAnthony FranciosaAccused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsKirk DouglasTony CurtisErnest BorgnineA slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsOrson WellesDean StockwellDiane VarsiTwo wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJeffrey HunterSiobhan McKennaHurd HatfieldThe temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardUgo GregorettiPier Paolo PasoliniStarsRosanna SchiaffinoBruce BalabanMaria Pia SchiaffinoFour short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPaul ScofieldWendy HillerRobert ShawThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsAlan ArkinMartin BalsamRichard BenjaminA man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsRod SteigerChristopher PlummerOrson WellesFacing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsPetar BozovicOrson WellesOja KodarLife and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean-Paul BelmondoCharles BoyerLeslie CaronAugust 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
- DirectorMorgan NevilleStarsAlan CummingPeter BogdanovichOja KodarIn the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsJohn HustonOja KodarPeter BogdanovichAt a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOja KodarPatty McCormackPaola MoriDon Quixote is an unfinished film project produced, written and directed by Orson Welles. Principal photography took place between 1957 and 1969. Test footage was filmed as early as 1955, second-unit photography was done as late as 1972, and Welles was working on the film intermittently until his death in 1985.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOja KodarThe film was due to be a one-hour adaptation of an Isak Dinesen story of the same name, from her collection Winter's Tales (1942). It would have starred Oja Kodar as a young French aristocratic widow during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsGordon JacksonChristopher LeePatrick McGoohanA play-within-a-play of Moby Dick by Orson Welles.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerOrson WellesCécile AubryA disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsErrol FlynnJuliette GrécoTrevor HowardIn French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsJim HensonFrank OzJerry NelsonKermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
- StarsOrson WellesOrson Welles recounts various stories from his life while drawing sketches of the events.
- DirectorFerdinando BaldiRichard PottierOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesIvica PajerEleonora Rossi DragoKing Saul of the Israelites is visited in Jerusalem by the Prophet Samuel who foretells him that a war with The Philistines is inevitable and the shepherd David will become king.
- StarsOrson WellesChris WertenbakerKenneth TynanIn 1955, Orson Welles directed and hosted a mini series for British television. He leads us through a few famous places of Europe with his inimitable touch. In Paris he introduces us to famous artists such as Juliette Gréco or Jean Cocteau who lived in the Saint Germain Des Pres quarter. In London we meet the Chelsea Pensioners, in Spain we attend a Madrid Bullfight and visit the Basque country (Basque Country 1&2). Somewhere between a home movie and a cinematic essay, these short films have been described by French critics as the missing link in Welles' work.
- DirectorChuck WorkmanStarsOrson WellesSimon CallowChristopher WellesA look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist.This is a fine tribute.
- DirectorWilliam VanceOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesVirginia NicolsonWilliam VanceA colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges an old man, dressed as a dandy, who tips his hat to the woman as he walks down stairs grinning. Others leave the same door and walk down the same stairs: a shabby man, a cop, and, several times, the same dandy. The man in blackface hangs himself; the dandy continues to smile. A bell tolls, a grave beckons. In the dark, the dandy plays the piano. Is he Death?Truly bizarre.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesSusan FoxJohn Barrymore
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsMarcel AchardGaby AndréMaurice BessySeries of rushes about cripples appearing in a Bible epic who are cured by a starlet playing Saint Anne.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson Welles
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesBill GoodwinBilly HouseA couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsTruman CapoteOrson WellesOrson Welles in a specially commissioned film for Tempo examines bullfighting. While Truman Capote discusses the death of fiction.
- DirectorTad DanielewskiOrson WellesStarsViveca LindforsRita GamMorgan SterneA valet guides a man into a windowless, mirrorless hotel room with a single entrance. Two women join them, then the valet locks them inside. Trapped, the trio realizes they're in hell, anticipating a grim fate.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesKeith BaxterMcIntosh FergusinOrson Welles' unfinished adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island.
- DirectorSidney HayersOrson WellesStarsGeorge SegalUrsula AndressOrson WellesIn 1912 West Africa, diamond tycoon Kramer hires penniless American fortune hunter Dan Rockland, who's posing as a geologist, but when a huge diamond is found, everyone wants to steal it.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsSenta BergerArte JohnsonMickey RooneyWelles presents a tour of Vienna. He visits the Sacher Hotel and the Wiener Riesenrad at the Prater amusement park. The film concludes with a spy film spoof, as Welles becomes involved in the abduction of a woman
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesCharles GrayIrina MaleevaA rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson Welles
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesTim Brooke-TaylorCharles GrayFive comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Four Clubmen, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesMicheál MacLiammóirHilton EdwardsEssay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a screening of the film.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsScott AlexanderJoseph McBrideTodd McCarthyAfter a screening of 'The Trial' at the University of Southern California, Welles discussed with the public and tried to answer their questions.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOja KodarOrson WellesThe Dreamers is an unfinished and unreleased film project directed and produced between 1980 and 1982 by Orson Welles, based on the short story by Karen Blixen.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesThe film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill. In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and quotes the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesAllen BrackenAngie DickinsonOrson Welles was a big fan of magic and in this television broadcast develops a number of traditional tricks.
- DirectorBill KrohnMyron MeiselOrson WellesStarsManuel 'Jacare' Olimpio MeiraJeronimo André De SouzaRaimundo 'Tata' Correia Lima"It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles" is a 1993 documentary feature about Orson Welles's ill-fated Pan-American anthology film "It's All True," shot in 1941-42 but never completed.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson Welles
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsMargaret LockwoodOrson WellesForrest TuckerMajor Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman.
- StarsLeslie MegaheyOrson WellesPeter BogdanovichPart 1 of an in-depth interview exploring Welles' achievements and frustrations during his life in film and theatre.
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsFaye DunawayOskar WernerLee GrantThe tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
- DirectorRobert GuenetteStarsOrson WellesPhilip L. ClarkeRay LaskaThe story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.
- DirectorAndrew McCulloughStarsOrson WellesNatasha ParryArnold MossAn old king, stepping down from the throne, disinherits his favorite daughter on a mad whim and gives his kingdom to his two older daughters, both of whom prove treacherous.
- DirectorNelson ShinStarsOrson WellesRobert StackLeonard NimoyThe Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsJean-Pierre AumontJeanne BoitelPierre BrasseurNapoléon Bonaparte's life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical and ironic politician who once was the Emperor of France's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJeff ChandlerOrson WellesColleen MillerVirgil Renchler owns most of the town, providing a thriving economy. When his men go too far and kill one of his migrant workmen, the sheriff goes after him, even if it means his job and everyone else's.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsOrson WellesPamela FranklinLee PurcellMr. Cato is the head of a witches' coven in the town of Lilith, where he needs the powers of Lori Brandon to raise his son from the dead.
- DirectorMatt CimberStarsStacy KeachPia ZadoraOrson WellesIn 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.
- DirectorHenri HelmanStarsTony CurtisBerta Domínguez D.Erik EstradaA man whose wife entertains eccentric individuals, has no other choice to avoid ruin than to sell a patent on laser beams he invented...
- StarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments.
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsOrson WellesSusan HampshireMichel BouquetA young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.
- CreatorDonald P. BellisarioGlen A. LarsonStarsTom SelleckJohn HillermanRoger E. MosleyThe adventures of a Hawaii-based private investigator.
- CreatorRod SerlingStarsRod SerlingLarry WatsonJoanna PettetRod Serling presents tales of horror illustrated in various paintings.
- DirectorJohn HoughAndrea BianchiAntonio MargheritiStarsOrson WellesKim BurfieldLionel StanderYoung Jim Hawkins has an unforgettable encounter with pirate Captain Long John Silver and his murderous mates.
- StarsOrson WellesChristopher LeeDean Stockwell"Orson Welles' Great Mysteries" was a United Kingdom hosted anthology mystery and supernatural series, hosted by Orson Welles.
- DirectorHilton EdwardsStarsMichael LaurenceShelah RichardsHelena HughesOrson Welles, on break from filming Othello, relates a tale he heard one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago when, driving through the countryside, he picked up a man with car trouble who told of a strange encounter with two hitchhikers.
- StarsMichael ParkinsonMarian MontgomeryBilly ConnollyJournalist Michael Parkinson interviews a broad range of the most famous people in the world.
- DirectorPeter BaylisStarsGeorge BakerFaith BrookDavid HealyA biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles with voice-overs by the listed actors for the recreated scenes.
- CreatorGlenn Gordon CaronStarsCybill ShepherdBruce WillisAllyce BeasleyThe quirky cases of a former model and a smart aleck detective who manage a private detective agency.
- StarsRichard ChamberlainToshirô MifuneYôko ShimadaAn English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsRichard ChamberlainToshirô MifuneYôko ShimadaAn English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
- StarsOrson WellesStephen McHattieGeoffrey BowesA historical mini series based on the Klondike's history, that was hosted by Orson Welles.
- StarsCicely TysonJason BernardClifford DavidA film about the life and career of the African American abolitionist and slave escape leader, Harriet Tubman.
- DirectorSteven PaulStarsJerry LewisMadeline KahnMarty FeldmanA rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
- DirectorJoe CampStarsDion PrideGreg HodgesJeff NicholsonSome school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuse to believe them. Later they discover both were part of an assassination plot. Now they have to figure out how to stop the plot and put the bad guys in jail.
- DirectorLarry JordanStarsOrson WellesThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner, relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses.
- DirectorDonald WryeStarsMarlo ThomasOrson WellesWayne RogersIn the spirit of "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), a young woman must give up her dream and remain in her small hometown as head of her family's Building and Loan business.
- DirectorMartin BrestStarsKen LernerRay SharkeyHervé VillechaizeMartin Brest's AFI student film about a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.