Citizen Kane
1941
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Orson Welles. Actor: Citizen Kane. His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child.
May 2, 2024 · Orson Welles, American film actor, director, producer, and writer whose classic Citizen Kane (1941) is known for its innovative narrative techniques and its use of photography, dramatic lighting, and music to further the dramatic line. Learn more about Welles’s life and career.
Apr 2, 2014 · Orson Welles began his career as a stage actor before going on to radio, creating his unforgettable version of H.G. Wells ' War of the Worlds. In Hollywood, he left his artistically indelible...
On 30 October 85 years ago, the population of the US was – according to Orson Welles – overwhelmed by mass panic, terrified by the all-too-real broadcast of his alien-invasion drama The War of...
Oct 11, 1985 · Orson Welles, the Hollywood ''boy wonder'' who created the film classic ''Citizen Kane,'' scared tens of thousands of Americans with a realistic radio report of a Martian invasion of New Jersey...
Nov 29, 2015 · Welles pushed radio in a more artistically ambitious direction with his “Mercury Theatre on the Air,” adapting Shakespeare, Dickens, “Dracula,” and dozens of other literary properties ...
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio.
