In 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Players dramatized The Murder of Roger Ackroyd on CBS's Campbell Playhouse.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

In 1970, De Palma left New York for Hollywood at age thirty to make Get To Know Your Rabbit, starring Orson Welles and Tommy Smothers.

In 1936 Orson Welles helped produce an African-American cast of the play, including Canada Lee in the role of Banquo.

* Orson Welles used a crane camera during the iconic opening of Touch of Evil.

" At that year's awards show, Robin Williams, a self-confessed " Jones-aholic ," presented the Honorary award to Jones, calling him " The Orson Welles of cartoons.

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

In 1941, RKO Pictures released Citizen Kane made by Orson Welles.

Among those films not themselves considered film noirs, perhaps none had a greater effect on the development of the genre than America's own Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), the landmark motion picture directed by Orson Welles.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

* In the 1962 Orson Welles film adaptation of The Trial, Josef K. is played by Anthony Perkins.

The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles ' film Touch of Evil.

* Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) compiles the two Henry IV plays into a single, condensed storyline, while adding a handful of scenes from Richard II and Henry V. The movie, also known as Falstaff, features Welles himself in the title role.

Orson Welles ' F for Fake is a prime example of a film which is both about falsification ( art forgery and the journalism surrounding art forgery ) as well as having falsified moments within the film.

Highlighting the music of Nino Rota, the film was selected at Cannes ( among the films in competition was Orson Welles ’ s Othello ) and then retracted.

Orson Welles in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich said of Howard Hawks in comparison to John Ford " Hawks is great prose ; Ford is poetry ".

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired in the USA on November 6, 1938, as part of his Mercury Theatre on the Air program.

Cagney was among Stanley Kubrick's and Marlon Brando's favorite actors, and was considered by Orson Welles to be " maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera.

Justinian was portrayed by Orson Welles in the 1968 German film Kampf um Rom I, directed by Robert Siodmak.

He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.

Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with Orson Welles.

" Hayward suggested that they call Cotten's good pal Orson Welles.

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Everett Sloane in Citizen Kane

Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in " Citizen Kane " ( 1941 )

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

** Orson Welles ' film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City.

The film's plot structure also bears similarity to Orson Welles's Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), particularly the opening scenes with Lawrence's death and the reporter inquiring notables at Lawrence's funeral.

One early showcase for Dunn was Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu ( and some of Gregg Toland's famous ' deep focus ' shots ) were essentially created by Dunn's optical printer.

The other six included: Orson Welles ( Citizen Kane ), Laurence Olivier ( Hamlet ), Woody Allen ( Annie Hall ), Kenneth Branagh ( Henry V ), Kevin Costner ( Dances with Wolves ), and Roberto Benigni ( Life Is Beautiful ).

Orson Welles argued that it was a perfect textbook of film making and claimed to have watched it more than 40 times during the making of Citizen Kane.

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

In classic motion pictures such as Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, the director created storyboards that were initially thought by cinematographers as to be impossible to film.

** Orson Welles for Citizen Kane

In Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), cinematographer Gregg Toland and director Orson Welles used tighter apertures to create very large depth of field in the scenes, often rendering every detail of the foreground and background of the sets in sharp focus.

The film, with a script featuring a contribution from Herman J. Mankiewicz ( who later co-wrote Citizen Kane with Orson Welles ), had Neagle performing her own high-wire acrobatics.

* The shots of the private zoo at Xanadu in Orson Welles ' 1941 film Citizen Kane were filmed at the San Diego Zoo.

John Houseman ( born Jacques Haussmann ; September 22, 1902October 31, 1988 ) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane.

* Elizabeth Falkner, Accomplished Restaurateur & Author, Citizen Cake ( Executive Pastry Chef ) and Orson co-owner ( Executive chef ) ( 1989 )

Orson Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane was also released.

Hearst Castle was the inspiration for the " Xanadu " mansion of the 1941 Orson Welles film Citizen Kane, which was itself a fictionalization of William Randolph Hearst's career.

The other members of Claremont and Byrne's Hellfire Club were similarly drawn from the names and faces of famous actors: Sebastian Shaw was based on actor Robert Shaw, Harry Leland on Orson Welles ( who acted as Harry Lime in The Third Man and whose film Citizen Kane featured a reporter named Jed Leland ), and Donald Pierce was based on Donald Sutherland ( the surname referencing his Hawkeye Pierce character from M * A * S * H ).

Orson Welles's Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) is frequently cited in critics ' polls as the greatest film of all time.

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz ( pronounced MAN-kyeh-vich ; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953 ) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane ( 1941 ).