 |
Orson Welles director, writer, actor, producer
Born: 5/6/1915
Birthplace: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Academy Award-winning film and stage director, actor, writer and producer who redefined film language with his groundbreaking, critically acclaimed Citizen Kane (1941), considered by many to be the greatest film ever made. His 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds caused a nationwide panic when listeners thought aliens had landed in New Jersey. Welles spent much of his life in a restless pursuit of projects that would fit the measure of his genius and his ego. Died: 10/10/1985
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Orson Welles from Infoplease:
- Hoaxes - Literary - Poetic License by Borgna Brunner Who Wants to Impersonate a Billionaire? Few figures in American ...
- Orson Welles - Welles, Orson Welles, Orson, 1915–85, American actor, director, and producer, b. Kenosha, ...
- Citizen Kane (1941) - Citizen Kane (1941) Director: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and ...
- Orson Welles - Biography of Orson Welles, The man who made Citizen Kane
- The Lady From Shanghai (1948) - Starring Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane
|
|
