Orson Welles
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Waterloo (1970)
- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
- Napoleonic epic from the Russian director of WAR AND PEACE is dramatically woolly, but includes superb, sprawling battle–scenes. Rod Steiger…
- Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Astin, Tom Smothers, Allen Garfield…
- Quirky Brian de Palma comedy about an exec who wants to become a tapdancing magician.
- Treasure Island (1972)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander
- Well–shot, though fairly hammy version of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, with Welles playing the peg–legged Long John Silver.
- F for Fake (1974)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles
- Ostensibly a documentary, on unrepentant art–forger Elmyr de Hory and 'fake biographer' Clifford Irving, this material is cunningly subverted…
- History of the World, Pt.1 (1981)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn…
- A series of hilariously crass historical sketches from Mel Brooks.
- Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981)
- Dir. Robert Guenette
Feat. Orson Welles
- Orson Welles narrates and appears in this dramatisation of the prophecies of Nostradamus, many of which have proved to be alarmingly accurate.
- Someone to Love (1987)
- Dir. Henry Jaglom
Feat. Orson Welles
- Typically loose and naturalistic drama from independent stalwart Henry Jaglom, who pretty much plays himself – a jaded divorcee filmmaker in search…
- Jodorowsky's Dune (2014)
- Dir. Frank Pavich
Feat. Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger…
- Billed as the greatest sci–fi movie never made, Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's groundbreaking novel DUNE makes for a…