Orson Welles

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1915 age 0

   Born

2. 1941 age 26

   CreditCitizen Kane

   CreditCitizen Kanedirector

   CreditCitizen Kaneproducer

   CreditCitizen Kanescreenwriter

3. 1942 age 27

   CreditThe Magnificent Ambersonscinematographer

   CreditThe Magnificent Ambersons

   CreditThe Magnificent Ambersonsdirector

   CreditThe Magnificent Ambersonsproducer

   CreditThe Magnificent Ambersonsscreenwriter

4. 1947 age 32

   CreditMonsieur Verdouxscreenwriter

   CreditThe Lady from Shanghai

   CreditThe Lady from Shanghaidirector

   CreditThe Lady from Shanghaiproducer

   CreditThe Lady from Shanghaiscreenwriter

5. 1949 age 34

   CreditThe Third Man

   CreditThe Third Manscreenwriter

6. 1958 age 43

   CreditThe Vikings

   CreditTouch of Evil

   CreditTouch of Evildirector

   CreditTouch of Evilscreenwriter

7. 1966 age 51

   CreditA Man for All Seasons

   CreditIs Paris Burning?

8. 1967 age 52

   CreditCasino Royale

9. 1969 age 54

   CreditBattle of Neretva

10. 1970 age 55

    CreditWaterloo

11. 1979 age 64

    CreditThe Muppet Movie

12. 1985 age 70

    Died

• JCJoseph Cotten4 titles
• BHBernard Herrmann3 titles
• RCRay Collins3 titles
• ESErskine Sanford3 titles
• HSHarry Shannon3 titles
• ESEverett Sloane2 titles
• AMAgnes Moorehead2 titles
• GSGus Schilling2 titles
• PZPhilip Van Zandt2 titles
• RWRobert Wise2 titles

• Spouse

  • RHRita Hayworth

• Partner

  • DRDolores del Río

Nothing recorded for: Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character, to assure you that The War of the Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be; The Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying "Boo!" Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the next best thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears and utterly destroyed the CBS. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember please for the next day or so the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian, it's Halloween.

  Orson Welles, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A story doesn't have to appeal to the heart; it can also appeal to the spine. Sometimes you want your heart to be warmed, and sometimes you want your spine to tingle.

  Orson Welles, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great — I'm taking myself as a character — for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian.

  Orson Welles, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

  Orson Welles, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

  Orson Welles, CC BY-SA 4.0

• An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.

  Orson Welles, CC BY-SA 4.0