
Born May 6, 1915 — Died October 10, 1985
From Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Also known as George Orson Welles, O. W. Jeeves
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, Well...
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
Self (archive footage)

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self / The Director / Sir John Falstaff (archive footage) (uncredited)

WeirdWorld
Troy2000 (Archive footage)

Human Nature in Eleven Parts
Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)

The Scorpion and the Frog
Narrator (archive footage)

Othelo The Great
Self (archive footage)

The Battle of Grovers Mill
Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
Self

Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
Falstaff

It's Pretty, but is it Art?
Self (voiceover)

Looking Back Before You Leap
General Zaroff (voice)

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)

American: An Odyssey to 1947
Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)

The Welles Raft
Himself (Archive Footage)

My Guest is Orson Welles

The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)

Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
Self

Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)

Morceaux de Cannes

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Self (archive footage)

Hopper/Welles
Self

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Self (archive footage)

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
(archive footage)

The Other Side of the Wind
Journalist (uncredited)

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)

The Eyes of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Magic History of Cinema

Embers & Dust
Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)

Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
Self (archive footage) (voice)

This Is Orson Welles
Self

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)

Too Much Johnson
Keystone Kop

Jodorowsky's Dune
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Magic Mirror Maze

The Shadow Knows
Self (archive footage)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Self

Jucy
Elephant Lamp (archive sound)

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
Himself

Hollywood sul Tevere

Lucifer et moi
(archive footage 1982)

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Self (archive)

The Deep
Russ Brewer

Lost in "The Thinking"
Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
(Self)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)

The Other Side of Welles
Self (archive footage)

The Well

Orson Welles Uncut

The Hitch Hiker
Ronald Adams
The UFO Conspiracy
Self (archive sound)

The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)

Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)

Lost in La Mancha
Self (archive footage)
The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)
Archival Footage

A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Self (Archive footage)

NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
Narrator

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
Self (Archive footage)

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage)

Moby Dick
Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)

One Man Band
Presenter / Various

According to Occam's Razor

Hi-Fi

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self - Roaster (archive footage)

It's All Brazil
Self (archive footage)

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Self (archive footage)

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Self

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Self (archive footage)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)

La Classe américaine
Self (archive footage)

It's All True
Self

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles

Working with Orson Welles
Himself (Archive Footage)

Don Quixote
Self

The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
Self (archive footage)

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
Self (archive footage)

Welles' Language
Self (archive footage)

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self (archive footage)

On the tracks of a filmmaker
Orson Welles

Someone to Love
Danny's Friend

Unseen Lollo
Himself

It's Not All True
Himself (archive footage)

The Transformers: The Movie
Unicron (voice)

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Self (archive footage)

The Dreamers
Marcus Kleek

Orson Welles' Magic Show
Self
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
Self

Almonds and Raisins
Narrator

The Road to Bresson
Self

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
Narrator
In Our Hands
Himself

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
himself

Where Is Parsifal?
Klingsor

The Witching
Mr. Cato

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Magician (uncredited)

The Psychic Connection
Narrator
King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
Self - Narrator

Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
Himself

Hot Money
Sheriff Paisley

Slapstick of Another Kind
Aliens' Father (voice) (uncredited)

Wagner e Venezia
Richard Wagner (voice)

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Self

The Orson Welles Story
Self

Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Self - Narrator

Genocide
Narrator (voice)

Night of 100 Stars
Self

Doug Henning's World of Magic
Self - Special Guest

Butterfly
Judge Rauch

Let Poland Be Poland
Self

Magic with the Stars
Self - Host

The Quest for Fire Adventure
Narrator

A Gift of Harvest
Narrator

Brasil
Self (archive footage)

Search for the Titanic
Self - Host

The New Deal for Artists
Narrator (voice)

History of the World: Part I
Narrator (voice)

Filming 'The Trial'
Self

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Presenter / Narrator (voice)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Narrator

The Secret of Nikola Tesla
J.P. Morgan
A Step Away
English Narrator

The Greenstone
Narrator (voice)

The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
Narrator

Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
Self
To Try Again... and Succeed
Narrator (voice)

Filming Othello
Host

The Muppet Movie
Lew Lord

The Double McGuffin
Narrator (voice)

The Orson Welles Show
Self

The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
Narrator

Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
Self

The Biggest Battle
Narratore

The Late Great Planet Earth
Self

Mysterious Castles of Clay
Narrator

Tut: The Boy King
Himself - Host

Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
Himself

It Happened One Christmas
Henry F. Potter
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
Narrator

The Force Beyond
Himself (archive footage)

Hot Tomorrows
Parklawn Mortuary (voice)

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
Self

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Narrator

From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
Narrator

Voyage of the Damned
José Estedes

NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self / Narrator

Bugs Bunny Superstar
Narrator (voice)
A Mother's Tale
Narrator

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
Self
Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
Narrator

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)

Who's Out There?
Host

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
Narrator
A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles

And Then There Were None
Voice on Tape

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Power and Corruption
Himself
Kelly Country
Narrator

F for Fake
Self

The Battle of Sutjeska
Winston Churchill

The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles
Narrator

The Cave
Narrator

The Man Who Came to Dinner
Sheridan Whiteside

Treasure Island
Long John Silver

Necromancy
Mr. Cato

Get to Know Your Rabbit
Mr. Delasandro

Malpertuis
Cassavius

Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Self
Future Shock
Narrator

Ten Days' Wonder
Théo Van Horn

A Safe Place
The Magician

Directed by John Ford
Narrator (voice)

Sentinels of Silence

Flame of Persia
Narrator

Freedom River
Narrator

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

Is It Always Right to Be Right?
Narrator

Waterloo
Louis XVIII
The Enemy Before Us
Narrator

Catch-22
Brigadier General Dreedle

Start the Revolution Without Me
The Narrator

The Kremlin Letter
Bresnavitch

Upon This Rock
Michelangelo (voice)

A Horse Called Nijinsky
Narrator

The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
Shylock

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Narrator (voice)

The Merchant of Venice
Shylock

Twelve Plus One
Markan

The Battle of Neretva
Četnik

The Southern Star
Plankett

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Justinian

Tepepa
Colonel Cascorro

To Build a Fire
Narrator (voice)

The Fight for Rome
Justinian

The Immortal Story
Charles Clay

House of Cards
Leschenhaut

Around the World of Mike Todd
Self - Narrator

Portrait d'Orson Welles
Self

Oedipus the King
Tiresias

Vienna
Himself

I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Jonathan Lute

Beggars Would Ride
Narrator
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Self

Casino Royale
Le Chiffre

The Sailor from Gibraltar
Louis de Mozambique

Ten Days That Shook the World
Narrator

A Man for All Seasons
Cardinal Wolsey

Is Paris Burning?
Konsul Nordling

Orson Welles in Spain
Himself

Chimes at Midnight
Falstaff

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
Self - Narrator (voice)
Americans on Everest
Narrator- Self

Marco the Magnificent
Akerman, Marco's Teacher

Profile No. 6: Orson Welles

A King's Story
Narrator

The Finest Hours
Narrator (voice)

The V.I.P.s
Max Buda

La ricotta

Ro.Go.Pa.G.
The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
River of the Ocean
Narrator (English)

The Trial
Albert Hastler

Lafayette
Benjamin Franklin

King of Kings
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Tartars
Burundai

Austerlitz
Robert Fulton

An Arabian Night
Storyteller

Crack in the Mirror
Hagolin / Lamerciere

Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
Self (narrator)

David and Goliath
King Saul

High Journey
Narrator

Ferry to Hong Kong
Captain Hart

Compulsion
Jonathan Wilk
Lords of the Forest
Narrator (voice)

The Roots of Heaven
Cy Sedgewick

The Fountain of Youth
the narrator

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Self - Host

South Seas Adventure
Narrator

The Vikings
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Long, Hot Summer
Will Varner

Touch of Evil
Police Captain Hank Quinlan

Man in the Shadow
Virgil Renchler
Out of Darkness
Self - Narrator

Moby Dick
Father Mapple
Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers
Self - Narrator (voice)

The Land of the Basques
Himself

Mr. Arkadin
Gregory Arkadin

Moby Dick—Rehearsed
An Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab

Napoleon
Sir Hudson Lowe

Three Cases of Murder
Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)

Trouble in the Glen
Sanin Cejador y Mengues

Royal Affairs in Versailles
Benjamin Franklin

King Lear
King Lear

Man, Beast and Virtue
Captain Perella, the Beast

Return to Glennascaul
Narrator

Trent's Last Case
Sigsbee Manderson

Othello
Othello

Disorder
Self

The Black Rose
Bayan

The Miracle of St. Anne
The Director

Prince of Foxes
Cesare Borgia

The Third Man
Harry Lime

Black Magic
Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro

Macbeth
Macbeth

The Lady from Shanghai
Michael O'Hara

Duel in the Sun
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Battle for Survival
Narrator

The Stranger
Prof. Charles Rankin

Tomorrow Is Forever
John Andrew MacDonald
Mexico City, Old and New
Narrator

Follow the Boys
Orson Welles (uncredited)

Know Your Ally: Britain
Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)

Jane Eyre
Edward Rochester

Show-Business at War
Self

Journey into Fear
Colonel Haki

The Magnificent Ambersons
Narrator (voice)

Citizen Kane
Charles Foster Kane

Swiss Family Robinson
Opening Narrator (uncredited)
The Green Goddess
Rajah/Narrator

The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)

The Hearts of Age
Death

Twelfth Night
Narrator
Something Else
Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee
Narrator