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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years...
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Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. The film, which was Welles' first feature film, was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories: it won for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and...
Initial release date:
- 1941
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- 119 min (71.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 686,033 (US$)
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Touch of Evil
Touch of Evil (1958) is an American crime drama film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles. Paul Monash and Franklin Coen also wrote scenes for the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson....
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- 1958
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Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
Monsieur Verdoux
Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux...
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- 1947
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Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
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Around The World With Orson Welles
Around the World with Orson Welles was a series of six short travelogues originally written and directed by Orson Welles for Associated-Rediffusion in 1955. Among the more notable episodes, Welles visited with Jean Cocteau and Juliette Gréco in...
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- 1955
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- 26 min (16 hs )
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F for Fake
F for Fake (French: Vérités et Mensonges) is the last major film completed by Orson Welles. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a...
Initial release date:
- 1973
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Runtime:
- 85 min (51 hs )
The Stranger
The Stranger 1946 film noir/drama starring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. Welles also directed the film, which was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the...
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- 1946
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Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
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The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his then-estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.
Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles) meets...
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- 1948
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- 87 min (52 hs )
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Too Much Johnson
Too Much Johnson is a 1938 comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles. The film was made three years before Welles helmed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened. No print of the film survives.
The film was not intended to stand by...
Initial release date:
- 1938
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Runtime:
- 40 min (24 hs )
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Macbeth
Macbeth is a 1948 American film adaptation by Orson Welles of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.
In 1947, Orson Welles began promoting the notion of bringing a Shakespeare drama to the motion picture screen. He initially attempted to pique...
Initial release date:
- Oct 1, 1948
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Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
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Othello
Othello is a 1952 drama film based on the Shakespearean play, made by Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau and distributed by United Artists (1955). It was directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also played the title role (in blackface...
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- 1952
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- 91 min (55 hs )
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Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin is a French-Spanish-Swiss coproduction film written and directed by Orson Welles. Its history is convoluted; the story was based on several episodes of the radio series The Lives of Harry Lime, which in turn was based on the character...
Initial release date:
- 1955
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Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
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Chimes at Midnight
Chimes at Midnight, also known as Falstaff, is a 1965 film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's recurring character Sir John Falstaff. Welles himself plays Falstaff, Keith Baxter plays Prince Hal (who will later become Henry V),...
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- 1965
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- 117 min (70.2 hs )
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Man in the Shadow
Man in the Shadow is a 1957 crime starring Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, and John Larch.
The cow town of Spurline is effectively ruled by Virgil Renchler (Orson Welles), owner of the Golden Empire ranch. One night, some...
Initial release date:
- Sep 20, 1957
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Runtime:
- 80 min (48 hs )
The Hearts of Age
The Hearts of Age is the first film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short, which he co-directed with William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles' first wife, Virginia Nicholson, as well as Welles himself. He made the film while...
Initial release date:
- 1934
Runtime:
- 8 min (4.8 hs )
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It's All True
It's All True was the title of an unfinished Orson Welles feature film of three stories about Latin America. "My Friend Bonito" was shot in 1941 and both "The Story of Samba" and "Four Men on a Raft" in 1942. It was the subject of a 1993 documentary...
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- 1942
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the 1918 novel of the same title by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim...
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- 1942
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Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
The Immortal Story
The Immortal Story (French: Une histoire immortelle) is a 1968 French film directed by Orson Welles and starring Jeanne Moreau. The film was originally broadcast on French television and was later released in theaters. It was based on a short story...
Initial release date:
- May 24, 1968
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- 58 min (35 hs )
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The Trial
The Trial (also known as Le Procès) is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Franz Kafka. Welles stated in an interview with the BBC that "The Trial is the best film I have ever made."
Josef K. ...
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- 1963
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Runtime:
- 118 min (70.8 hs )
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The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind is an unfinished film directed by Orson Welles and starring John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper and Oja Kodar. The film features Huston as an aging Hollywood director modeled on Ernest Hemingway, who is trying to...
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- 1972
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Treasure Island
Treasure Island is a 1972 film starring Orson Welles based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It featured Walter Slezak as Squire Trelawney, Rik Battaglia as Captain Smollett, and Ángel del Pozo as Doctor Livesey.
Initial release date:
- 1972
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Runtime:
- 94 min (56 hs )
