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.

* 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

Like Orson Welles or Elvis Presley, he had a history of weight fluctuations through his career, attributed to his years of stress-related overeating followed by compensatory dieting.

Cross of Iron was reportedly a favorite of Orson Welles who said that after All Quiet on the Western Front it was the finest anti-war film he had ever seen.

Under Orson Desaix Munn III, grandson of Orson I, it had evolved into something of a " workbench " publication, similar to the twentieth century incarnation of Popular Science.

Several years later Williams turned down work with Orson Welles in America because he did not like the country and had no desire to work there.

An obsessive cinema-goer, seeing up to 400 movies a year in his youth, Bogdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as Orson Welles and John Ford -- whom he later wrote a book about, based on the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director -- and Howard Hawks.

In Sideslip by Ted White and Dave van Arnam, a private detective from our New York finds himself in an alternate reality where Earth is under occupation by interstellar humanoids nicknamed " Angels ", who had landed in 1938, taking advantage of the confusion following Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio program, and had ruled Earth as a colony ever since.

The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series ( featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant ), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny.

Bergen and McCarthy are sometimes credited with " saving the world " because, on the night of October 30, 1938, when Orson Welles performed his War of the Worlds radio play hoax that panicked many listeners, most of the American public had instead tuned in to Bergen and McCarthy on another station and never heard Welles ' play.

Taylor had two assistants who aided him in running this group, Orson Spencer and Phineas Richards.

She sued Orson Welles for back payment of child support which she claimed had never been paid.

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.

In an interview with Dick Cavett on The Dick Cavett Show, actor and director Orson Welles revealed, nonchalantly, that he is the great-grandson of Gideon Welles, and had known a dinner party hostess from the American Civil War era familiar with his great-grandfather Gideon.

Although the central figure is a man in his late fifties, Houseman became obsessed by the notion that a young man named Orson Welles he had seen in a Cornell Company production of Romeo and Juliet was the only person qualified to play the leading role.

Quiet, Please had its roots in The Campbell Playhouse ( 1938 – 1941 ), the successor to Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air, which achieved notoriety with its 1938 adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds.

For example, Brigham Young decided that John Taylor was to be President of the Twelve and Wilford Woodruff follow him in seniority due to the readmission to the quorum of Orson Hyde, who had been disfellowshipped in 1846, and Orson Pratt, who had been excommunicated in 1842.

The two teenage girls, who had created a rich fantasy life together populated with famous actors such as James Mason and Orson Welles, did not want to be separated.

Far from serving as a traditional documentary on Elmyr de Hory, the film also incorporates Welles's companion Oja Kodar, notorious " hoax-biographer " Clifford Irving, and Orson Welles himself, in an autobiographical role.

After a brief Orson Welles-style opening announcement, recalling Welles ' notorious radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, the programme begins with a 20th Century Fox fanfare.

A few years later he met Orson Welles, who invited him to join the Mercury Theatre, where he participated in the notorious 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.