Directing
Orson Welles
- Titles
- 318movies52TV shows
- Career
Active from 1933 to 2026, busiest in 1970 with 12 main titles.
- Leading roles
- 116top three billing
- Average score
66/100
- Highest rated
Citizen Kane91/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 86 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Historical6.7average 2.6
- Politics4.8average 2.6
- Nostalgia5.2average 3.7
- Mystery5.2average 4.1
- Class & Capitalism4.3average 3.3
- Social Commentary5.9average 4.9
- Wit & Wordplay4.5average 3.7
- Psychological6.2average 5.6
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism1.9, average 5.4
- Coming of Age1.9, average 3.0
- Situational Comedy1.6, average 2.7
- Pop Culture1.2, average 2.2
Main genres
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Recurring tags
- Political Intrigue 10
- Social Commentary 8
- Psychological Thriller 8
- Historical Drama 7
- Character Study 7
- Historical Epic 5
- Orson Welles 5
- Orson Welles Narration 5
- Character-Driven 5
- Moral Ambiguity 4
- Thought-Provoking 4
- Complex Characters 4
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Gary GraverActorThe Other Side of the Wind, An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon, The Orson Welles Show, It's All True, Orson Welles' Magic Show, +6 more
Oja KodarActorThe Other Side of the Wind, F for Fake, The Secret of Nikola Tesla, The Deep, The Dreamers, +4 more
Akim TamiroffActorTouch of Evil, The Trial, Marco the Magnificent, Mr. Arkadin, Black Magic, +1 more- GGary GraverCinematographerBugs Bunny Superstar, An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince, An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy, An Evening with Orson Welles: Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah, +1 more
Jeanne MoreauActorThe Trial, Chimes at Midnight, The Deep, The Immortal Story, The Sailor from Gibraltar
Laurence HarveyActorF for Fake, The Fight for Rome, The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal, The Deep, Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Joseph CottenActorCitizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, Journey into Fear, Too Much Johnson
Angelo Francesco LavagninoComposerOthello, Chimes at Midnight, Filming Othello, Man, Beast and Virtue, The Merchant of Venice
Agnes MooreheadActorCitizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Jane Eyre, Journey into Fear
Erskine SanfordActorCitizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth
Norman FosterActorThe Other Side of the Wind, Journey into Fear, It's All True, It's All True- RRenzo LucidiEditorOthello, Mr. Arkadin, Black Magic, Don Quixote
Movies and TV shows
244Upcoming
2 titles
as Narrator
Original Concept
2020s
8 titles · average score 57
as narrator
as Troy2000 (Archive footage)
as Narrator (archive footage)
as Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)
as Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)
as General Zaroff (voice)
Director
2010s
17 titles · average score 60
Theme Song Performance
as Journalist (uncredited)
Thanks
as Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)
Theme Song Performance
as Keystone Kop (uncredited)
as (archive footage)
Thanks
as Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)
2000s
12 titles · average score 59
as (archive footage 1982)
Original Concept
as Russ Brewer
Original Concept
as Ronald Adams
Director, Producer
Original Film Writer
as Archival Footage
as Narrator
as Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)
1990s
12 titles · average score 66
as Presenter / Various
Original Concept
Theme Song Performance
Theme Song Performance
Director
Screenplay, Director
1980s
38 titles · average score 61
as Unicron (voice)
TV show · as Orson Welles
TV show · Creator
Director, Writer
as Marcus Kleek
as Sheriff Paisley
as Judge Rauch
as Narrator (voice)
as Presenter / Narrator (voice)
TV show · as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as J.P. Morgan
1970s
56 titles · average score 62
Director, Writer
as Henry F. Potter
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
Director, Writer
as Long John Silver
as Cassavius
as Narrator
as Mr. Cato
as Narrator (voice)
as The Magician
as Louis XVIII
1960s
42 titles · average score 63
as Colonel Cascorro
as Plankett
as Justinian
as Charles Clay
as Leschenhaut
as Le Chiffre
as Cardinal Wolsey
as Falstaff
as Akerman, Marco's Teacher
as Albert Hastler
as Burundai
as King Saul
1950s
34 titles · average score 70
as Jonathan Wilk
as Captain Hart
as Police Captain Hank Quinlan
as Will Varner
as the narrator
as Virgil Renchler
as Gregory Arkadin
as Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
as King Lear
as Sigsbee Manderson
as Othello
as Bayan
1940s
19 titles · average score 72
as Harry Lime
as Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
as Cesare Borgia
as Macbeth
as Michael O'Hara
as John Andrew MacDonald
as Prof. Charles Rankin
as Edward Rochester
as Colonel Haki
as Narrator (voice)
as Charles Foster Kane
1930s
4 titles · average score 57
as Rajah/Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Death
as Narrator