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Orson Welles: Biography

Birth Name: George Orson Welles
Birth Place: Kenosha, WI
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/06/1915, Taurus
Date of Death: 10/09/1985
Profession: Actor; director; writer; producer

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Orson Welles: TV Guide News

DVD Tuesday: Charlton Heston in the Great Touch of Evil | Ask FlickChick | 4/8/2008
DVD Tuesday: When Charlton Heston met Orson Welles; in praise of Touch of Evil; one wild and sleazy ride through the darkness at the edge of border towns.When you think "Charlton Heston" you think Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes,, The Omega Man (the nuttier of two precursors to Will Smith's I Am Legend), The Ten Commandments and Soylent Green (spoiler alert: "Soylent Green is people!). But one of my favorite Heston movies is one of his less well-known: the thriller Touch of Evil, directed by and costarring Orson Welles, along with Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Cotten and Zsa Zsa Gabor — now that's a cast! And it opens with one of the most justly famous tracking shots in movie history: a sinuous, three-minute and 20-second glide through the crowded streets of seedy Los Robles, following behind a white convertible en route to the U.S. border with an ominous tick… tick… tick… always audible through the clamor of ambient noise and Henry Mancini's ominously... read more
Zac Efron Is Feeling Welles, and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 1/18/2008
High School Musical emo-boy Zac Efron will star in Me and Orson Welles, an adaptation of Robert Kaplow's novel about a student who stumbles into a bit part in the 1937 staging of Julius Caesar that launched the big guy's career. Newbie Christian McKay is tackling Welles.... The life of legendary fashion designer Valentino is en route to theaters in the form of the documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor.Related:• Zac Efron Sidelined in Hospital• Zac Efron Makes a Friend, and More Movie News read more
DVD Tuesday: How Great Is Citizen Kane? | Ask FlickChick | 6/26/2007
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane: A pop masterpiece that plays like breaking news. Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk!Everyone's heard that Citizen Kane (1941) is the best of the best: It just topped the AFI's most recent list of the all-time greatest films, and critics, academics and movie buffs all genuflect before its flawless mix of technical invention and lacerating dissection of the American Dream gone wrong. But what sometimes gets lost in the adulation is the fact that it's a blast, and that's why it's this week's DVD Tuesday pick.Tell people you're a movie critic and they want to know your favorite movie of all time. There are a lot of ways you can go at that one: After flailing embarrassingly at the question on more than one occasion, I decided to come up with an answer and a rationale. So now I say my favorite movie is the one I'd take to a desert island if I knew I'd be stuck there for years... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/7/2006
Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) pays tribute to a cinema giant in Turner Classic Movies' read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/9/2006
What if.... an outbreak of an avian flu actually mutated into a virus transmittable from human to human? That is the ver read more

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Orson Welles: Credits

Title	Year	Type
The Magnificent Ambersons (Writer)	2001	Movie
Touch Of Evil: The Director's Cut (Director)	1998	Movie
Touch Of Evil: The Director's Cut (Writer)	1998	Movie
Touch Of Evil: The Director's Cut (Actor - Hank Quinlan)	1998	Movie
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (Actor)	1996	Movie