Orson Welles — Actor (81)
John Candy: I Like Me (2025) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Candy: I Like Me
director: Colin Hanks actor: John Candy / Tom Hanks
other title: John Candy: Eu Gosto de Mim / John Candy: Ich mag mich
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.
Lost in "The Thinking" (2005) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Lost in "The Thinking"
director: Damon Packard actor: Dan Koontz / Elise Koontz
A surreal meditation on hopelessness and pointlessness as guided by the Arthur Frain/Merlin character from Boorman’s “Zardoz”.
Future Shock (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Future Shock
director: Alexander Grasshoff actor: Orson Welles / James McGaugh
“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock … of future shock.” No, this isn’t a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication. Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of post-industrial existence. This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock, and, unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films, Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change. (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive)
Necromancy (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Necromancy
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Orson Welles / Pamela Franklin
other title: Il potere di Satana / Horror-Attack
After Lori suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a northern California toy company. Frank's new boss, the mysterious Mr. Cato, explains that Frank's position will involve magic. Cato, who seemingly holds enormous influence over the town, pursues the power of necromancy and believes that Lori holds the key that will help him resurrect his own dead son.
The Hearts of Age (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hearts of Age
director: Orson Welles / William Vance actor: Orson Welles / William Vance
other title: Corazones del tiempo (C) / Hearts of Age
A surreal silent short composed of symbolic imagery and allegorical tableaux centered on themes of death and mortality.
Who's Out There? (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Who's Out There?
actor: Orson Welles / Carl Sagan
Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to then-modern explorations of Mars, this film from NASA provides a unique glimpse at life on earth, and elsewhere in the universe.
The Force Beyond (1977) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Force Beyond
director: William Sachs actor: Donn Davison / Rosko
other title: Secrets of the Gods
Speculative "documentary" about alien visitations on Earth, UFO sightings and how aliens are responsible for pretty much every conspiracy theory, paranormal encounter and cryptozoological sighting in history. (Also Jesus. No, really.)
Return to Glennascaul (1953) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Return to Glennascaul
director: Hilton Edwards actor: Orson Welles / Michael Laurence
other title: Return to Glennascaul: A Story That Is Told in Dublin / Rückkehr nach Glennascaul
Orson Welles, taking a break from the filming of "Othello," is driving in the Irish countryside one night when he offers a ride to a man with car trouble. The man relays to Welles a strange tale of an encounter he had once before at the same isolated location.
The Fountain of Youth (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Fountain of Youth
director: Orson Welles actor: Marjorie Bennett / Madge Blake
other title: The Fountain of Youth (TV)
A darkly comic fable about vanity and desire, "The Fountain of Youth" follows a newly married couple whose relationship is destabilized by the arrival of a potion that promises centuries of youth and beauty—but in a quantity sufficient for only one person. As temptation and resentment grow, the gift becomes a catalyst for moral and emotional collapse. Written, directed, and narrated by Orson Welles and based on John Collier’s short story “Youth from Vienna,” the film uses stylized narration and experimental visual techniques to construct a compact essay on human vanity. (Note: Originally produced in 1956 as a television pilot and broadcast once in 1958 as part of NBC’s Colgate Theatre anthology series (S1E5); it later achieved independent archival and cultural status, including a 1958 Peabody Award.)
Compulsion (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Compulsion
director: Richard Fleischer actor: Dean Stockwell / Bradford Dillman
other title: Frenesia del delitto / Der Zwang zum Bösen
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
The V.I.P.s (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The V.I.P.s
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Richard Burton
other title: International Hotel / Gente Muito Importante
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Black Magic (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Black Magic
director: Gregory Ratoff actor: Orson Welles / Nancy Guild
other title: Cagliostro / Graf Cagliostro
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
director: Henry Jaglom actor: Michael Emil / Karen Black
other title: Café New York
Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli, and a very unlikely, funny and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city.
Orson Welles in Spain (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Orson Welles in Spain
director: Albert Maysles / David Maysles actor: Orson Welles
Orson Welles presents a proposed film project to prospective investors in Spain. Speaking to an audience of wealthy arts patrons, Welles outlines his vision for an improvised, documentary-style fiction set in the world of bullfighting, centered on a solitary, existential matador who stands apart from his peers. As he expounds on cinema, performance, and the ritualized spectacle of death, the film captures a project that would ultimately remain unrealized.
Someone to Love (1987) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Someone to Love
director: Henry Jaglom actor: Henry Jaglom / Andrea Marcovicci
other title: Ein Tag für die Liebe - Someone to Love / Alguien a quien amar
A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.
Moby Dick (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Moby Dick
director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles
An unfinished 1971 film project in which Orson Welles performs readings from Moby Dick against a minimalist blue-screen setting, conceived as a stylized, abstract adaptation but never edited or completed. (Note: Not to be confused with Welles’s separate 1955 filmed stage project Moby Dick—Rehearsed.)
The Late Great Planet Earth (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Late Great Planet Earth
director: Rolf Forsberg / Robert Amram actor: Orson Welles / Judith Roberts
other title: I cieli e la terra finiranno
The Late, Great Planet Earth is the title of a best-selling 1970 book co-authored by Hal Lindsey and Carole C. Carlson, and first published by Zondervan. The book was adapted in 1979 into a movie. The Late, Great Planet Earth is a treatment of literalist, premillennial, dispensational eschatology. As such, it compared end-time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events in an attempt to broadly predict future scenarios leading to the rapture of believers before the tribulation and Second Coming of Christ to establish his thousand-year (i.e. millennial) Kingdom on Earth.