Orson Welles — Actor (81)
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
director: Robert Guenette actor: Orson Welles / Ray Laska
other title: L'uomo che vide il futuro
Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician Nostradamus actually predict such events as the fall of King Louis XVI, the rise of Napoleon, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? And are there prophecies that have yet to come true?
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
director: Vassili Silovic / Oja Kodar actor: Oja Kodar / Orson Welles
other title: Orson Welles, l'homme-orchestre
Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years).
Oedipus the King (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Oedipus the King
director: Philip Saville actor: Christopher Plummer / Lilli Palmer
other title: König Oedipus / Edipo rey
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Hot Tomorrows (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hot Tomorrows
director: Martin Brest actor: Ken Lerner / Ray Sharkey
A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.
Man in the Shadow (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Man in the Shadow
director: Jack Arnold actor: Jeff Chandler / Orson Welles
other title: La tragedia del Rio Grande / Des Teufels Lohn
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but their quest for justice puts them both in danger.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
director: Lawrence Jordan actor: Orson Welles
other title: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant from The National Endowment Of The Arts.
The Spanish Earth (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Spanish Earth
director: Joris Ivens actor: Manuel Azaña / José Díaz
other title: Terra di spagna / Tierra de España
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
Sentinels of Silence (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Centinelas del Silencio
director: Robert Amram actor: Ricardo Montalban / Orson Welles
other title: Centinelas del Silencio / Centinelas del silencio
Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was directed and written by Mexican filmmaker Robert Amram, and is notable for being the first and only short film to win two Academy Awards.
Disorder (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Désordre
director: Jacques Baratier actor: Juliette Gréco / Simone de Beauvoir
other title: Désordre
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Sailor from Gibraltar
director: Tony Richardson actor: Jeanne Moreau / Ian Bannen
other title: Il marinaio del Gibilterra / Nur eine Frau an Bord
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
Duel in the Sun (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Duel in the Sun
director: King Vidor actor: Jennifer Jones / Joseph Cotten
other title: Duello al sole / Duelo ao Sol
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Night of 100 Stars (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Night of 100 Stars
director: Clark Jones actor: Jane Alexander / Peter Allen
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
It Happened One Christmas (1977) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
It Happened One Christmas
director: Donald Wrye actor: Marlo Thomas / Orson Welles
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an incident no fault of her own which threatens her name and the community standing of her longtime family business, the Bailey Building and Loan, which she took over after the passing of her father. What Mary does not know is that most in town, including her husband George Hatch and their children, are also praying for her. All the prayers are heard by Joseph, God's gatekeeper of prayers. As there are no other angels available on such a busy day, Joseph assigns Clara Oddbody, angel second class (i.e. she has yet to receive her wings), to Mary's case, which he reluctantly does as Clara has never been assigned a case on her own in the two hundred years she's been in heaven for good reason.
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Man Who Came to Dinner
director: Buzz Kulik actor: Orson Welles / Lee Remick
Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than anyone expects.
A King's Story (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A King's Story
director: Harry Booth actor: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom / Wallis Simpson
other title: Histoire d'un roi / A King’s Story
A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edward VIII, from his birth until abdication in 1936. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The Witching (1983) [Movie] TMDB
The Witching
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Orson Welles / Pamela Franklin
This is Gordon's re-edit of his 1972 horror film Necromancy starring Orson Welles and Pamela Franklin. This version features brand new scenes (mostly to up to exploitation factor) filmed in 1983 and added by Gordon himself. It also features a brand new score and other changes and the whole thing differs greatly from the original 82-minute theatrical version.