Orson Welles

Biography

Born 05/06/1915

Orson Welles' pioneering, influential cinema was imaginative, ambitious and technically daring. His baroque cinematic style created a dense moral universe in which every action had tangled--and usually tragic--human repercussions. Before his dramatic arrival in Hollywood, Welles had carved a...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 1993, received Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary
In 1984, received Directors Guild of America D W Griffith Award
In 1981, received Grammy for Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording (Album)

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Production Photos

Orson Welles, Transformers (2007)

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Highlights

In 1998, Restored version of "Touch of Evil" using Welles' 17-page memo as guideline premiered
In 1993, Reconstruction of substantial parts of "It's All True" publicly premiered at New York Film Festival
In 1955, Wrote and starred in the stage play "Moby Dick--Rehearsed"; performed in London

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Family & Companions

Dolores Del Rio: married to Cedric Gibbons at time of relationship c. 1939-42; older than Welles; popular Hollywood film star of the 1920s and 30s who returned to her native Mexico in the mid-40s and enjoyed considerable success onstage and in film there; acted in "Journey Into Fear" (1942), set up by and also starring Welles
Oja Kodar: Welles' companion in his later years; survived him
Richard Head Welles: father (born in Missouri in 1872; died on December 28, 1930 in Chicago of heart and kidney failure at age 58; made money as manufacturer of bicycle and auto lamps in Kinosha Wisconsin; sold business so as not to have to change from the popular carbide lamp he had invented to electrical model; invented glider attached to steam-driven engine)

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