Orson Welles
- Anniversaire:
- 05/06/1915
- Lieu de naissance:
- Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA:
- Biographie:
- George Orson Welles, simplement appelé Orson Welles, est un artiste américain, à la fois acteur, réalisateur, producteur et scénariste, mais également metteur en scène de théâtre, dessinateur, écrivain et illusionniste, né le 6 mai 1915 à Kenosha (Wisconsin) et mort le 10 octobre 1985 à Hollywood (Californie). Il a été parfois crédité sous les noms de O. W. Jeeves ou G. O. Spelvi2. D'abord révélé à lui-même par le théâtre de Shakespeare, puis rendu célèbre par une émission de radio (La Guerre des mondes), Orson Welles devient une figure incontournable du cinéma avec son premier long-métrage, Citizen Kane (1941), que l'ensemble des critiques considère comme l’un des films les plus importants du XXe siècle. Par la suite, son style cinématographique, mais aussi son jeu d'acteur, exercent une grande influence sur le cinéma des années 1950-1970, en particulier sur Stanley Kubrick. Artiste précoce et polymorphe, farouchement épris de son indépendance, amateur de cigares, de tauromachie et d'illusionnisme, Welles ne cesse tout au long de sa carrière de revenir au théâtre et à la littérature, aux grands textes classiques (Othello, Don Quichotte) comme aux contemporains (Le Procès). Se défiant du système de production et entretenant sa propre légende d'effets à la fois spectaculaires et énigmatiques, il laisse de nombreux films inachevés. Son père, Richard Heard Welles, est un industriel dilettante et un grand voyageur; sa mère, Béatrice Welles née Ives, est pianiste. Le fils les décrit ainsi: «Mon père était un bon vivant de l'époque édouardienne qui aimait se dire inventeur. Il était généreux et tolérant, adoré de tous ses amis. Je lui dois une enfance privilégiée et l'amour des voyages. Ma mère était une femme d'une beauté mémorable, elle s'occupait de politique, était championne de tir au fusil, ainsi que pianiste de concert très douée. Je tiens d'elle l'amour de la musique et de l'éloquence sans lesquels aucun être humain n'est complet». Le jeune Orson grandit dans une ambiance raffinée et cultivée avec une touche d'excentricité. Les témoignages sur sa précocité abondent: il sait lire à deux ans, apprend à jouer du piano à trois ans et met en scène des pièces de Shakespeare à sept ans. La légende, difficile à démêler de la réalité, veut en effet qu'il ait été un enfant prodige et qu'il ait joué Le Roi Lear tout seul à l'âge de sept ans et accompli d'autres exploits avant cela. Ces «exploits» sont désormais connus: il fait à trois ans une apparition dans Samson et Dalila à l'Opéra de Chicago, puis plus tard dans Madame Butterfly. En 1919, ses parents se séparent et Orson suit sa mère à Chicago. À dix ans, il interprète Peter Rabbit dans les locaux du centre commercial Marshall Field's à Chicago. Par la suite, le journal local lui consacre un article titré: «Dessinateur, acteur, poète; il n'a que dix ans». Ses aptitudes et sa passion pour le monde du spectacle ne s'arrêtent pas là: il se veut également décorateur, metteur-en-scène et surtout comédien, et ce qu'il préfère avant tout sont le transformisme et les postiches. ... Source: Article "Orson Welles" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Othelo, O Grande (2024) Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo) | |
The Battle of Grovers Mill (2024) Radio Host (voice) (archival footage) | |
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters (2024) Self | |
Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) Self (archive footage) | |
LIFE BEYOND: Visions of Alien Life (2024) Narrator (Archive Sound) | |
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (2023) Falstaff | |
It's Pretty, but is it Art? (2023) Self (voiceover) | |
Looking Back Before You Leap (2023) General Zaroff (voice) | |
Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende (2022) Self (archive footage) | |
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) Self (archive footage) | |
American: An Odyssey to 1947 (2022) Self (archive footage) | |
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (2022) Himself (Archive footage) | |
A Jangada de Welles (2022) Himself (Archive Footage) | |
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles (2021) Self | |
Parkinson at 50 (2021) Self (archive footage) | |
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard (2021) Self (archive footage) | |
Hopper/Welles (2020) Self | |
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020) Self (archive footage) | |
LIFE BEYOND I: The Dawn (2019) Narrator | |
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" (2019) (archive footage) | |
The Other Side of the Wind (2018) Journalist (uncredited) | |
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) Self (archive footage) | |
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) Self (archive footage) | |
The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018) Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage) | |
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie (2018) Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | |
The Magic History of Cinema (2017) | |
Embers & Dust (2016) Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound) | |
This Is Orson Welles (2015) Self | |
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage) | |
Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso (2014) Self (archive footage) | |
Too Much Johnson (2013) Keystone Kop | |
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) Self (archive footage) | |
Magic Mirror Maze (2012) | |
The Shadow Knows (2012) Self (archive footage) | |
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim (2012) (archive footage) | |
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (2011) Himself | |
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage) | |
Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (2010) Himself | |
Lucifer et moi (2009) (archive footage 1982) | |
The Deep (2007) Russ Brewer | |
Edge of Outside (2006) Self (archive footage) | |
Cineastes contra magnats (2005) Self (archive footage) | |
Druga strana Wellesa (2005) Self (archive footage) | |
Brunnen (2005) | |
The Hitch Hiker (2004) Ronald Adams | |
Rita (2003) (archive footage) | |
L’Affaire Dominici par Orson Welles (2003) Self (archive footage) | |
Lost in La Mancha (2002) Self (archive footage) | |
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
The Paranormal Peter Sellers (2001) Self (Archive footage) | |
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3 (2001) Narrator | |
Orson Welles en el país de don Quijote (2000) Self (Archive footage) | |
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000) Self (archive footage) | |
Moby Dick (2000) Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage) | |
According to Occam's Razor (1999) | |
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1998) Self - Roaster (archive footage) | |
Tudo é Brasil (1997) Self (archive footage) | |
Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997) Self (archive footage) | |
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997) Self | |
The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) Self (archive footage) | |
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995) Self (archive footage) | |
La Classe américaine (1993) Self (archive footage) | |
It's All True (1993) Self | |
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles (1993) | |
Working with Orson Welles (1993) Himself (Archive Footage) | |
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992) Self | |
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1990) Self (archive footage) | |
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1990) Self (archive footage) | |
A Linguagem de Orson Welles (1990) Self (archive footage) | |
On the tracks of a filmmaker (1988) Orson Welles | |
Someone to Love (1987) Danny's Friend | |
Nem Tudo É Verdade (1986) Himself (archive footage) | |
The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Unicron (voice) | |
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986) Self (archive footage) | |
Almonds and Raisins (1985) Narrator | |
The Dreamers (1985) Marcus Kleek | |
Orson Welles' Magic Show (1985) Self | |
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon (1984) | |
De weg naar Bresson (1984) Self | |
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail (1984) Narrator | |
In Our Hands (1984) Himself | |
Where Is Parsifal? (1984) Klingsor | |
The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (1984) himself | |
The Witching (1983) Mr. Cato | |
The Psychic Connection (1983) Narrator | |
King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands (1983) Self - Narrator | |
Orson Welles à la Cinémathèque française (1983) Himself | |
Notre Dame de la Croisette (1983) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Hot Money (1983) Sheriff Paisley | |
Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) Aliens' Father (voice) | |
Wagner e Venezia (1982) Richard Wagner (voice) | |
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982) Self | |
Baryshnikov in Hollywood (1982) Self - Narrator | |
Genocide (1982) Narrator (voice) | |
Night of 100 Stars (1982) Self | |
Doug Henning's World of Magic (1982) Self - Special Guest | |
Butterfly (1982) Judge Rauch | |
Let Poland Be Poland (1982) Self | |
Magic with the Stars (1982) Host | |
The Quest for Fire Adventure (1982) Narrator | |
A Gift of Harvest (1981) Narrator | |
Brasil (1981) Self (archive footage) | |
Search for the Titanic (1981) Himself (host) | |
グリックの冒険 (1981) Pippo | |
The New Deal for Artists (1981) Narrator (voice) | |
History of the World: Part I (1981) Narrator | |
Filming 'The Trial' (1981) Self | |
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981) Presenter / Narrator (voice) | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (1980) Narrator | |
Tajna Nikole Tesle (1980) J.P. Morgan | |
A un solo paso (1980) English Narrator | |
The Greenstone (1980) Narrator (voice) | |
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (1979) Narrator | |
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years (1979) Self | |
To Try Again... and Succeed (1979) Narrator (voice) | |
The Muppet Movie (1979) Lew Lord | |
The Double McGuffin (1979) Narrator | |
The Orson Welles Show (1979) Self | |
The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon (1979) Narrator | |
Filming Othello (1978) Host | |
Il grande attacco (1978) Narratore | |
The Late Great Planet Earth (1978) Self | |
Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978) Narrator | |
Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles (1978) Himself | |
Tut: The Boy King (1978) Himself - Host | |
It Happened One Christmas (1977) Henry F. Potter | |
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed (1977) Narrator | |
The Force Beyond (1977) Himself (archive footage) | |
Hot Tomorrows (1977) Parklawn Mortuary (voice) | |
From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural (1977) Narrator | |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1977) Narrator | |
Voyage of the Damned (1976) José Estedes | |
NBC: The First Fifty Years (1976) Self / Narrator | |
Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975) Narrator (voice) | |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) Self (archive footage) | |
Orson Welles - Das Vermarktete Genie (1975) Self | |
Magnificent Monsters of the Deep (1975) Narrator | |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975) Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice) | |
Who's Out There? (1975) Host | |
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1974) Narrator | |
Une légende une vie: Citizen Welles (1974) | |
And Then There Were None (1974) Voice on Tape | |
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Power and Corruption (1973) Himself | |
Kelly Country (1973) Narrator | |
Vérités et Mensonges (1973) Self | |
Sutjeska (1973) Winston Churchill | |
The Cave (1973) Narrator | |
The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles (1973) Narrator | |
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) Sheridan Whiteside | |
Treasure Island (1972) Long John Silver | |
Necromancy (1972) Mr. Cato | |
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) Mr. Delasandro | |
Future Shock (1972) Narrator | |
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! (1972) | |
London (1971) Winston Churchill / George Bernard Shaw | |
La Décade prodigieuse (1971) Théo Van Horn | |
A Safe Place (1971) The Magician | |
Directed by John Ford (1971) Narrator (voice) | |
Centinelas del Silencio (1971) | |
فروغ جاودان (1971) Narrator | |
Malpertuis (1971) Cassavius | |
Freedom River (1971) Narrator | |
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (1970) | |
Is It Always Right to Be Right? (1970) Narrator | |
Waterloo (1970) Louis XVIII | |
The Enemy Before Us (1970) Narrator | |
Catch-22 (1970) Brigadier General Dreedle | |
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) The Narrator | |
The Kremlin Letter (1970) Bresnavitch | |
A Horse Called Nijinsky (1970) Narrator | |
Upon This Rock (1970) Michelangelo (voice) | |
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali (1969) Narrator (voice) | |
The Merchant of Venice (1969) Shylock | |
Bitka na Neretvi (1969) Četnik | |
12 + 1 (1969) Markan | |
The Southern Star (1969) Plankett | |
Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat (1969) Justinian | |
Tepepa (1969) Colonel Cascorro | |
To Build a Fire (1969) Narrator (voice) | |
Kampf um Rom – 1. Teil (1968) Justinian | |
House of Cards (1968) Leschenhaut | |
Around the World of Mike Todd (1968) Self - Narrator | |
Oedipus the King (1968) Tiresias | |
Portrait: Orson Welles (1968) Self | |
The Immortal Story (1968) Charles Clay | |
Vienna (1968) Himself | |
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) Jonathan Lute | |
Beggars Would Ride (1967) Narrator | |
Le désordre a vingt ans (1967) Self | |
Casino Royale (1967) Le Chiffre | |
Ten Days That Shook the World (1967) Narrator | |
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) Louis de Mozambique | |
A Man for All Seasons (1966) Cardinal Wolsey | |
Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) Konsul Nordling | |
Orson Welles in Spain (1966) Himself | |
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees (1965) Self - Narrator (voice) | |
Campanadas a medianoche (1965) Falstaff | |
La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo (1965) Akerman, Marco's Teacher | |
A King's Story (1965) Narrator | |
The Finest Hours (1964) Narrator (voice) | |
The V.I.P.s (1963) Max Buda | |
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta") | |
Le Procès (1962) Albert Hastler | |
Der große Atlantik (1962) Narrator (English) | |
La Fayette (1962) Benjamin Franklin | |
King of Kings (1961) Narrator (Voice) | |
I tartari (1961) Burundai | |
Austerlitz (1960) Robert Fulton | |
An Arabian Night (1960) Storyteller | |
Crack in the Mirror (1960) Hagolin / Lamerciere | |
David e Golia (1960) King Saul | |
High Journey (1959) Narrator | |
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) Captain Hart | |
Compulsion (1959) Jonathan Wilk | |
Les Seigneurs de la forêt (1958) Narrator (voice) | |
The Roots of Heaven (1958) Cy Sedgewick | |
The Fountain of Youth (1958) the narrator | |
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (1958) Self - Host | |
South Seas Adventure (1958) Narrator | |
The Vikings (1958) Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
The Long, Hot Summer (1958) Will Varner | |
Touch of Evil (1958) Police Captain Hank Quinlan | |
Man in the Shadow (1957) Virgil Renchler | |
Out of Darkness (1956) Self - Narrator | |
Moby Dick (1956) Father Mapple | |
The Land of the Basques (1955) Himself | |
Mr. Arkadin (1955) Gregory Arkadin | |
Orson Welles' Sketch Book (1955) Self - Host | |
Napoléon (1955) Sir Hudson Lowe | |
Three Cases of Murder (1955) Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) | |
Trouble in the Glen (1954) Sanin Cejador y Mengues | |
Si Versailles m'était conté (1954) Benjamin Franklin | |
King Lear (1953) King Lear | |
L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1953) Captain Perella, the Beast | |
Return to Glennascaul (1953) Narrator | |
Trent's Last Case (1952) Sigsbee Manderson | |
Othello (1951) Othello | |
Désordre (1950) Self | |
The Black Rose (1950) Bayan | |
Prince of Foxes (1949) Cesare Borgia | |
The Third Man (1949) Harry Lime | |
Black Magic (1949) Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro | |
Macbeth (1948) Macbeth | |
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Michael O'Hara | |
Duel in the Sun (1946) Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
Battle for Survival (1946) Narrator | |
The Stranger (1946) Prof. Charles Rankin | |
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) John Andrew MacDonald | |
Mexico City, Old and New (1945) Narrator | |
Follow the Boys (1944) Orson Welles (uncredited) | |
Know Your Ally: Britain (1944) Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger) | |
Jane Eyre (1943) Edward Rochester | |
Show-Business at War (1943) Self | |
Journey into Fear (1943) Colonel Haki | |
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Narrator (voice) | |
Citizen Kane (1941) Charles Foster Kane | |
Swiss Family Robinson (1940) Opening Narrator | |
The Spanish Earth (1937) Narrator (voice) | |
The Hearts of Age (1934) Death | |
Twelfth Night (1933) Narrator | |
Something Else |