Filmmaker · United States
Orson Welles
Died in 1985
George Orson Welles was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin; he lost his mother at nine and his father at fifteen. At twenty, he staged in Harlem a Shakespeare tragedy performed by an entirely Black company, and at twenty-three a radio adaptation presented as fake news bulletins, whose effect on the public the press exaggerated. At twenty-four he obtained from RKO a contract giving him the final say in the editing, which the studio cancelled in 1942. He later financed several of his films with his acting fees and died in Los Angeles in 1985.
In the catalogue 2
- CinemaCitizen KaneOrson Welles · 1941Cinema
- CinemaThe TrialOrson Welles · 1962Cinema