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George Orson Welles was an American actor and filmmaker. Remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre, he is considered among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
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The Other Side of the Wind
2018 · Director
The Transformers: The Movie
1986 · as Unicron (voice)
And Then There Were None
1974 · as Voice on Tape
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · Director · Creator · as Self - Host
Treasure Island
1972 · as Long John Silver
Waterloo
1970 · as Louis XVIII
Catch-22
1970 · as Brigadier General Dreedle
Casino Royale
1967 · as Le Chiffre
A Man for All Seasons
1966 · as Cardinal Wolsey
The Trial
1962 · Director · as Albert Hastler
Touch of Evil
1958 · Director · as Police Captain Hank Quinlan
The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · as Will Varner
Around the World with Orson Welles
1955 · Director · Creator · as Host: Orson Welles
Othello
1951 · Director · as Othello
The Third Man
1949 · as Harry Lime
Macbeth
1948 · Director · as Macbeth
The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Director · as Michael O'Hara
The Stranger
1946 · Director · as Prof. Charles Rankin
“A story doesn't have to appeal to the heart; it can also appeal to the spine. Sometimes you want your heart to be warmed, and sometimes you want your spine to tingle.”
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
“Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation — if you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surf board.”
“A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.”
“Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.”
“Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons”
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