Personal Info
George Orson Welles
O. W. Jeeves
Orson Welles
Directing
Biography
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative form…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Self / The Director / Sir John Falstaff (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Scorpion and the Frog
as Narrator (archive footage)
WeirdWorld
as Troy2000 (Archive footage)
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
as Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
Othelo The Great
as Self (archive footage)
The Battle of Grovers Mill
as Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
as Self
Looking Back Before You Leap
as General Zaroff (voice)
It's Pretty, but is it Art?
as Self (voiceover)
TV Shows
Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep.
LIFE BEYOND
as Self (voice) · 1 ep.
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep.
American Experience
as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep.
Moonlighting
as Orson Welles · 1 ep.
Scene of the Crime
4 ep.
Tales of the Klondike
as Narrator · 7 ep.
Magnum, P.I.
as Robin Masters (voice) · 6 ep.
Shōgun
as Narrator · 5 ep.
The Magic of David Copperfield
as Host · 2 ep.
