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

He was portrayed in the 2009 film Me and Orson Welles by James Tupper.

In the 1970 film Waterloo, Louis XVIII was portrayed by Orson Welles.

Actors who have portrayed Long John Silver in the various motion picture adaptations of Treasure Island include Wallace Beery, Ivo Garrani, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Eddie Izzard, Lance Henriksen, Robert Newton, Anthony Quinn, Tim Curry, Jack Palance, Brian Murray, Oleg Borisov, Boris Andreyev and British actor Ivor Dean in a televised version of the novel.

In 1977, Rolle portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles ' Haitian-influenced version at the Henry Street New Federal Theater in Manhattan.

* Brenda Blethyn portrayed Louella in RKO 281 aka Citizen Welles, a 2000 motion picture about the making of Citizen Kane and the relation between Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies.

Due to the grotesque, unsettling mood effect peculiar to wide-angle lenses, films making use of such perspective distortion can often be placed in one of two categories: Grotesque and surreal satire and fantasy, also to some extent black comedy ( Gilliam, Jeunet & Caro, Orson Welles, Dr. Strangelove ) on the one hand, and serious, more realistic films with a particular edge for social criticism on the other, whereas social conventions, collective society, and / or the motives and acts of leaders are portrayed as grotesque and absurd, and often also feature tyrannical characters with conformist values who act out in an extremely hostile and prejudiced way towards individualism and outsiders ( Paths of Glory, Straw Dogs, The Offence ).

Sir Hudson Lowe was portrayed by Orson Welles in Sacha Guitry's film Napoléon ( 1955 ), by Vernon Dobtcheff in L ' Otage de l ' Europe ( 1989 ), by David Francis in the Napoleon miniseries ( 2002 ), and by Richard E. Grant in Monsieur N. ( 2003 ).

He portrayed Orson Welles in the TV movie The Night That Panicked America ( 1975 ) ( TV ) and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women ( 1978 ) ( TV ).

On radio, he has been portrayed by Orson Welles, Charles Dance and Paul Ready.

* 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

* The War of the Worlds ( radio drama ), the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles

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

On October 30, 1938, CBS gained a taste of infamy when Orson Welles and the The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.

Orson Welles ' radio series Campbell Playhouse broadcast a one-hour adaptation on 7January 1940 featuring Helen Hayes and Agnes Moorehead.

A borderline case between fiction and hoax is a 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles describing a Martian invasion of earth.

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.

* Orson Welles, 1937 radio adaptation

Due to the famous radio adaptation of the novel by Orson Welles on his show, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, the novel has become one of the best known early apocalyptic works.

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.

Earlier work, including Luis Buñuel's 1933 Land Without Bread, Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, various April Fool's Day news reports, and vérité style film and television during the 1960s and 1970s, served as precursor to the genre.

Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse were considered by many critics to be the finest radio drama anthologies ever presented.

( Orson Welles has played both Holmes and Moriarty on radio programs.

In 1938, in what has become one of the most famous American radio plays of all time, Orson Welles acted out his The War of the Worlds invasion.

The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1941-1942 radio broadcasts — among them a number of slots on the Orson Welles Almanac broadcast and a jazz history series sponsored by Standard Oil — as well as by making recordings.

The radio play was presented on the Orson Welles Show ( 1941 ), Philip Morris Playhouse ( 1942 ), Suspense ( 1942 ), and The Mercury Summer Theater ( 1946 ).

All of these radio productions starred Orson Welles as Ronald Adams.

The radio drama is well-remembered for those episodes voiced by Orson Welles.

Thus began the " official " radio drama that many Shadow fans know and love, with 22-year-old Orson Welles starring as Lamont Cranston, a " wealthy young man about town.

In issue # 7, The Shadow meets a radio announcer named Grover Mills — a character based on the young Orson Welles — who has been impersonating The Shadow on the radio.