Orson Welles

 

Best known as the director of Citizen Kane and for the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells's "War of the Worlds," Orson Welles was a polymath who excelled as an actor, writer, director, and producer on radio, film, and television. 

 In fact, his reach went so far as television commercials, and by the end of his life, he was a household name for his Paul Masson wine commercials ("we will sell no wine before its time.")

 
Welles in 1937 (age 21)
photographed by Carl Van Vechten


 
 Welles in Madrid during the filming of Mr. Arkadin in 1956


 
 Welles as corrupt police captain Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil (1958)


On Dick Cavett



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p62gL-spAA


Orson Welles Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975





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The legendary Orson Welles accepts the 3rd AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975.

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Great interview with Michael Parkinson. With introduction from the year 1994. You can find some excerpts from a portrait here ("O.W. On His Life & Movie Making"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FDHe5nwEQ

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