Orson Welles — Actor (127)

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High Journey (1959) IMDb TMDB
High Journey
director: Peter Baylis actor: Orson Welles
In this film, ten European countries (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Turkey) are photographed from low-flying aircraft against an evocative soundtrack, revealing the features of their ancient capitals, historical heritage and remarkable landscapes in a new dimension.

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The Deep (2007) IMDb TMDB
The Deep
director: Orson Welles actor: Michael Bryant / Oja Kodar …
other title: 深渊
An unfinished feature film directed by Orson Welles and based on Charles Williams’s Dead Calm (1963), filmed between 1966 and 1969 off the Yugoslav coast. Starring Welles, Jeanne Moreau, and Laurence Harvey, the project follows a newlywed couple whose yacht voyage becomes a psychological thriller after encountering a drifting vessel. The film remains incomplete, with missing scenes, unfinished sound, and surviving only in workprint form.

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The Merchant of Venice (1969) IMDb TMDB
The Merchant of Venice
director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles / Charles Gray …
other title: 威尼斯商人
An unreleased 1969 made-for-TV short adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, produced, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. Originally part of the abandoned CBS special Orson’s Bag, the completed film later became partially lost due to missing workprints and sound elements, surviving only in fragmentary form until a reconstructed restoration premiered in 2015.

TV

Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) IMDb TMDB
Around the World with Orson Welles
director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles
other title: 同奧遜·威爾斯環遊世界 / 同奥逊·威尔斯环游世界
A six-part British television travel series written, directed, and presented by Orson Welles for ITV in 1955. Filmed entirely in Europe, the series follows Welles through Vienna, the Basque Country, Madrid, Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and London’s Chelsea Pensioners, blending travelogue, cultural portraiture, and personal essay. Moving between documentary observation and reflective commentary, the episodes combine interviews, local history, and Welles’s distinctive narration into a series that functions as both travel film and cinematic essay.

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Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Get to Know Your Rabbit
director: Brian De Palma actor: Tom Smothers / John Astin …
other title: 汝のウサギを知れ / 了解你的兔子 …
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?

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Crack in the Mirror (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Crack in the Mirror
other title: Drama im Spiegel / Una grieta en el espejo …
Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine. The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man, Larnier, and their passion knows no boundaries of caution or safety. Eventually, Eponine's and Larnier's lust drives them to madness, and they murder Hagolin. The second tale concerns an up-and-coming young lawyer, Claude, whose mentor is a highly successful veteran attorney, Lamerciere, with a beautiful young wife named Florence. Claude finds himself defending Larnier and Eponine, while Lamerciere dies of a heart attack after he discovers that Florence has been unfaithful to him with Claude.

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Hot Money (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hot Money
director: Zale Magder actor: Michael Murphy / Orson Welles …
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?

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Who's Out There? (1975) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Who's Out There?
director: Robert Drew 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.

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Ten Days That Shook the World (1967) IMDb TMDB
Ten Days That Shook the World
other title: Diez días que estremecieron al mundo
An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes use of rare footage and little-known information, stirringly narrated by Orson Welles.

TV

In the Land of Don Quixote (1964) IMDb TMDB
Nella terra di Don Chisciotte
director: Orson Welles actor: Beatrice Welles / Arnoldo Foà …
other title: 在堂吉诃德的国度 / Nella terra di Don Chisciotte
Filmed during Orson Welles’s travels through Spain while preparing his unfinished Don Quixote project, this nine-part travelogue documents the country’s landscapes, cities, and cultural traditions—from Andalusia to Pamplona—through an intimate, observational lens. Shot as a series of personal, narration-free travel films, the material was later broadcast by Italian television (RAI) with added voiceover, making the series both a poetic portrait of Spain and a rare glimpse into Welles’s working life, family, and creative process.

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Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mysterious Castles of Clay
director: Alan Root actor: Orson Welles / Derek Jacobi
other title: 神秘的黏土城堡
Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles. (narration replaced by Derek Jacobi, in a later release titled "Castles of Clay")

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The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
other title: 挑戰...向現代藝術致敬 / Le Défi de la grandeur
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Herbert Kline. The film shows footage of great modern artists in their studios creating and commenting on their work, with narration and commentary by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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Where Is Parsifal? (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Where Is Parsifal?
other title: ¿Dónde está Parsifal? / 帕西法爾在哪裡? …
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.