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.

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, in an interview with Dick Cavett, called Marshall "... the greatest human being who was also a great man ...

In an interview with Robert K. Elder, author of The Film That Changed My Life, Bogdanovich explains his appreciation of Orson Welles ' work:

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.

The narrative structure of the film is modeled on that of Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane, in that reporter Stuart tries to solve a mystery about Slade, traveling around to interview Slade's lovers and colleagues, whose recollections are shown in 1950s, 1960s and 1970s flashback sequences.

Orson Welles explained to Peter Bogdanovich in their interview book This is Orson Welles that, as Raft's career accelerated, the actor was particularly an idol and role model for actual gangsters of the period in terms of dress and attitude.

In 1886, Orson's wife Sarah Pratt claimed in an interview that, while in Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith, Jr. was attracted to her and intended to make her " one of his spiritual wives " while Orson was in England on missionary service.

According to an interview in the Oregon-based fanzine Sinister Press, Lucas spent most of his off-magazine time in 2008 and early 2009 scripting Me and the Orgone, based on Orson Bean's 1971 book about his experiences in Reichian therapy, and also an original screenplay based on the life of Ishi written in collaboration with Diane Pfister.

Famous actor Orson Welles said in interview for former Yugoslav television RTZ that he considered Pavle Vuisic as the best actor in the world.

Orson Welles, in his first stage production, directed Jack Carter and Edna Thomas, with Canada Lee playing Banquo, in an all African American production.

* Footage of Orson Welles ' landmark " Voodoo Macbeth " – with informative annotations

Orson, together with associates Samuel Wells and Nelson Sizer, ran the phrenological business and publishing house Fowlers & Wells in New York City.

Orson Scott Card, an author of both science fiction and non-SF fiction, has postulated that in science fiction the message and intellectual significance of the work is contained within the story itself and, therefore, there need not be stylistic gimmicks or literary games ; but that many writers and critics confuse clarity of language with lack of artistic merit.

It stars Rod Steiger ( portraying Napoleon Bonaparte ) and Christopher Plummer ( portraying the Duke of Wellington ) with a cameo by Orson Welles ( Louis XVIII of France ).

* September 26 – Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.

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.

Native Son opened on Broadway, with Orson Welles as director, to generally favorable reviews in March 1941.

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.

Returning to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with Orson Welles while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nichols's Catch-22 ( 1970 ).

Bogdanovich played a major role in elucidating Welles and his career with his writings on the actor-director, most notably his book This is Orson Welles ( 1992 ).

The resulting film included candid interviews with the likes of John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and was narrated by Orson Welles.

* Othello, with Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel

Encouraged by positive reviews of her comedic performances, Tate chose the comedy The Thirteen Chairs as her next project, as she later explained, largely for the opportunity to co-star with Orson Welles.

Science-fiction author Orson Scott Card was hired to write a novelization of the film based on the screenplay and discussions with Cameron.

* In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series, the Starways Congress established the law that no alien culture found is to be provided with superior technology or any information about the human society in order to preserve the natural development of the culture.

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 named La Grande Illusion as one of the movies he would take with him " on the ark.