Orson Welles

🎂 Data nașterii: 1915-05-06 (Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA)

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 forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios. Many of his films were heavily edited and others left unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur." After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety. Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made. Several of his other films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965), and F for Fake (1974), are also widely considered to be masterpieces. In 2002, he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also an extremely well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.

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Orson Welles

Filme în care a jucat

Cetățeanul Kane

Un om pentru toate anotimpurile

Splendoarea Ambersonilor

Campanadas a medianoche

Al treilea om

Atingerea răului

History of the World: Part I

12 + 1

Le Procès

Transformatorii: Filmul artistic

Moby Dick

Catch-22

Doamna din Shanghai

Paris brûle-t-il?

Străinul

And Then There Were None

House of Cards

Journey into Fear

Treasure Island

The Deep

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

Jane Eyre

Don Quijote de Orson Welles

According to Occam's Razor

A Linguagem de Orson Welles

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

Casino Royale

Waterloo

Follow the Boys

Bitka na Neretvi

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Macbeth

Butterfly

Vara lungă și fierbinte

Compulsion

Necromancy

Vikingii

F de la fals

Napoléon

The V.I.P.s

American: An Odyssey to 1947

The Black Rose

The Southern Star

Prince of Foxes

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

Dl. Arkadin

Mâine e mereu

Three Cases of Murder

The Kremlin Letter

Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso

Malpertuis

Othello

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

Si Versailles m'était conté

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

Il grande attacco

L’Affaire Dominici par Orson Welles

Tepepa

Tajna Nikole Tesle

Slapstick of Another Kind

Un loc sigur

Hot Tomorrows

Trent's Last Case

La Décade prodigieuse

Povestea nemuritoare

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

The Late Great Planet Earth

Voyage of the Damned

David e Golia

Black Magic

It's All True

Ferry to Hong Kong

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Future Shock

Get to Know Your Rabbit

The Fountain of Youth

The Force Beyond