( Welles said in 1969 that he believed McGoohan " would now be, I think, one of the big actors of our generation if TV hadn't grabbed him.

Mallory believed that by attacking the merchant shipping that carried trade to Northern ports he could force his Union counterpart, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, to divert his own small fleet to defend against the raiders.

In Welles ' film, de Hory questioned what it was that made his forgeries inferior to the actual paintings created by the artists he imitated, particularly since they had fooled so many experts, and were always appreciated when it was believed that they were genuine.

The Night That Panicked America tells the story of the 1938 broadcast from the point of view of Welles and his associates as they create the broadcast live, as well as from the points of view of a number of different fictional American families, in a variety of locations and from a variety of social classes, who listened to the broadcast and believed the imaginary Martian invasion was actually occurring, with some people even committing suicide.

Elliot Roosevelt later wrote that his father believed that Bullitt had bribed the porters to make overtures to Welles to entrap him.

( 99 mins ) Until the 2006 re-edit, it was believed to be the closest version to Welles ' conception.

) It was also believed that Welles was the narrator of the film, but it was actually narrated by well-known Hollywood voice actor Paul Frees in Welles ' style.

Welles, for his part, summarized the episode as " the Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying ' Boo!

The editing process was protracted and disputed, and the version eventually released was not the film Universal or Welles had hoped for.

Aware that there was a growing audience of cineastes with a strong interest in Welles ' work, the studio released this version to cinemas in 1976 and later issued it on video, billing it as " complete, uncut and restored.

" In fact, this print was not a restoration at all, but a preview version which post-dated the Welles memo but pre-dated the release version.

While it did feature some vital Welles scenes that Universal cut from the release version, the preview version also featured more of Keller's material than the release version.

As Welles's rough cut no longer exists, no true " director's cut " is possible, but Murch was able to assemble a version incorporating most of the existing material, omitting some of the Keller scenes ( though some were retained, either because they had replaced Welles scenes which no longer existed and were necessary to the plot, or because Welles had approved of their inclusion ).

He did come out of retirement for a 1998 miniseries version of one of his most famous films, Moby Dick, portraying Father Mapple ( played by Orson Welles in the 1956 version ), with Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, the role Peck played in the earlier film.

His first American film role was as Macduff in Orson Welles ' version of Macbeth ( 1948 ).

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.

1937 also saw a ten minute made-for-TV extract from Richard III, directed by Stephen Thomas, and starring Ernest Milton as Richard and Beatrix Lehm as Lady Anne ( 9 April ); a one-hundred minute abridged version of Orson Welles ' legendary modern dress Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, starring Welles himself as Caesar and George Coulouris as Mark Antony ; and a thirty minute extract from André van Gyseghem's Embassy Theatre production of Cymbeline starring George Woodbridge as Cymbeline and Joyce Bland as Imogen ( 29 November ).

Orson Welles receives funding from a mysterious source to film the ultimate version of Dracula, and hires a private detective to find out why.

After he and Welles went their separate ways, Houseman would go on to direct The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1939 ) and Liberty Jones and produced the Welles stage version of Native Son ( 1941 ) on Broadway.

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

In 1938 a radio broadcast version of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles, using a contemporary setting for H. G. Wells ’ Martian invasion, created some public panic in the U. S. This would later figure into some commentary on what was happening in 1947 when “ flying saucers ” finally hit the U. S.

Zadora starred alongside Stacy Keach and Orson Welles in the 1982 film version of James M. Cain's novel Butterfly, whose plot revolved around father-daughter incest.

Productions included The Citadel ( with Geraldine Fitzgerald ), A Christmas Carol ( broadcast once with Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge, and once with Orson Welles himself in the role ), a non-musical version of Show Boat ( with Margaret Sullavan as Magnolia, Orson Welles as Cap ' n Andy, Helen Morgan as Julie, and author Edna Ferber herself as Parthy ), A Farewell to Arms ( with Katharine Hepburn ), Mutiny on the Bounty, Arrowsmith ( with Helen Hayes ), Les Misérables ( with Walter Huston ), Our Town, Ah, Wilderness, Dodsworth, Lost Horizon ( with Ronald Colman ), Dinner at Eight ( with Hedda Hopper and Lucille Ball ), Liliom ( with Orson Welles in the title role and Helen Hayes as Julie ), and Huckleberry Finn ( with Jackie Cooper ).

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.

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

The films were directed by J. Farrell MacDonald, with casts that included Violet MacMillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred Harris, Juanita Hansen, Pierre Couderc, Mai Welles, Louise Emmons, J. Charles Haydon, and early appearances by Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach.

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

Welles later directed and played the starring role in a 1948 film adaptation of the play Macbeth.

* 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 ).

She appeared as Mistress Quickly in Orson Welles ' film Chimes at Midnight ( 1965 ) and was directed by Charlie Chaplin in A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, which was one of her final films.

* La Fayette ( film ), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French / Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles.

Category: Films directed by Orson Welles

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.

The Long, Hot Summer, a 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles, was filmed in and around Clinton.

Nathaniel Hawthorne used the Fountain in " Dr. Heidegger's Experiment " to demonstrate that positive thinking is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures ; Orson Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend ; and Tim Powers featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo adventure.

* La Décade prodigieuse ( 1971 ) ( English title, Ten Days ' Wonder ) directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles.

On the night before Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles directed The Mercury Theatre on the Air live radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic novel, The War of the Worlds.

* The Trial ( Le Procès ), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau-( France / Italy / West Germany )

* The Long, Hot Summer, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Tony Franciosa, Lee Remick

* Touch of Evil, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich

The year after his victory, in 1969, he starred as Ivan Martik with Yul Brynner and Orson Welles in the Yugoslav epic Battle of Neretva, directed by Veljko Bulajic.