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

British actor Christian McKay is cast as Welles, and costars with Zac Efron and Claire Danes.

In a significant departure from his earlier roles, Orson Welles was cast as Mr. Potter.

The cast included Orson Welles as the Stage Manager, John Craven of the original stage production as George Gibbs, and Patricia Newton as Emily Webb.

Along with Welles, the cast includes Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, and Marlene Dietrich.

After learning that Welles was in the cast, Heston expressed his greater interest in starring if Welles were directing.

Janet Leigh recalled how Welles asked for input from the actors in the cast:

The large ensemble cast includes David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert DoQui, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Harris, David Hayward, Michael Murphy, Allan F. Nicholls, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, and Keenan Wynn.

After Scream, Schreiber was cast as the young Orson Welles in the HBO original movie RKO 281, for which he was nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.

His most famous works for theater are two operas with libretti by Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts, especially famous for its use of an all-black cast, and The Mother of Us All, as well as incidental music for Orson Welles ' Depression-era production of Macbeth, set in the Caribbean, known as Voodoo Macbeth.

Fifth-billed after the remaining first-tier stars Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry and Jack Hawkins, Rennie was specifically cast as 13th century King Edward I, whose 6 ' 2 " ( 1. 88 m ) frame gave origin to his historical nickname, " Longshanks ".

The film was reportedly left largely unedited when Welles died in 1985 ; Selwart as well as other cast and crew members had to be dismissed because of lack of funds.

When RKO threatened to eliminate the payment of salaries by December 31 if no progress had been made, Welles announced that he would pay his cast out of his own pocket.

Orson Welles was so impressed by McGoohan's stage presence (" intimidated ," Welles said later ) that he cast him as Starbuck in his York theatre production of Moby Dick — Rehearsed.

Having become famous as Chester, he was cast in an offbeat supporting role in the 1958 Orson Welles film Touch of Evil, in which he played an employee of a remote motel who nervously repeated, " I'm the night man.

The film's main cast includes Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval and Steve Gravers.

Despite being canceled, the director, Orson Welles ( Angus Macfadyen ), and producer, John Houseman ( Cary Elwes ), lead the cast to another theater that was secured at the last minute.

Unless otherwise noted, the source for episode and cast information is Orson Welles on the Air: The Radio Years ( 1988 ), published by The Museum of Broadcasting.

In 1936, Orson Welles and producer John Houseman earned a reputation for their inventive adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in Haiti and using an all African American cast.

Although its cast was uncredited, The March of Time capitalized on the Broadway celebrity of Orson Welles in a 1938 advertisement.

The cast included Faye Dunaway, Laura Gemser, Lee Grant, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick, Luther Adler, Wendy Hiller, Julie Harris, Nehemiah Persoff, Paul Koslo, Jonathan Pryce, Max von Sydow, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles, James Mason, Katharine Ross, José Ferrer, Ben Gazzara, Fernando Rey, Maria Schell, Janet Suzman, Helmut Griem, Victor Spinetti and Denholm Elliott.

Welles cast O ' Connell in the tiny role of a reporter in the closing scenes of Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), a film often referred to as O ' Connell's film debut, though in fact he had already appeared in Freshman Year ( 1939 ) and had costarred in two Leon Errol short subjects as Leon's conniving brother-in-law.

It has an all-star cast including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles and Margaret Rutherford, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Everett Sloane in Citizen Kane

Police Chief Pete Gould ( Harry Shannon ) and District Attorney Adair ( Ray Collins ) arrive on the scene, followed by police Captain Hank Quinlan ( Orson Welles ) and Quinlan's longtime partner, Pete Menzies ( Joseph Calleia ).

Welles ' friend and Mercury Theater colleague, Joseph Cotten, appears uncredited as a police officer.

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 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.

After that came a successful career in Europe, including the role of Joseph K. in Orson Welles ' 1962 adaptation of Kafka's The Trial ( both 1962 ).

Moorehead met Orson Welles and by 1937 was one of his principal Mercury Players, along with Joseph Cotten.

The Third Man ( 1949 ), told the story of a writer ( Joseph Cotten ) in post-World War II Vienna who found out that his old friend ( Orson Welles ), a black marketeer, was not dead after all.

* 1937 – Too Much Johnson, Mercury Theatre Company, Director: Orson Welles ; Writers: William Gillette and Orson Welles ; Starring Joseph Cotton as Augustus Billings and Ruth Ford as Mrs. Billings.

For his motion picture debut, Welles first considered adapting Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for the screen.

The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of whom had worked for Corman on previous films.

On Los Angeles's skid row, penny-pinching Gravis Mushnick ( Mel Welles ) owns a florist shop and employs sweet but simple Audrey Fulquard ( Jackie Joseph ) and clumsy Seymour Krelboyne ( Jonathan Haze ).

Instead, it suggests that Josef Mengele was recruited by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to produce " grotesque, child-size aviators " to be remotely piloted and landed in America to cause hysteria in the likeness of Orson Welles ' 1938 radio drama War of the Worlds, but that the aircraft crashed and the incident was hushed up by the Americans.

Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Martin Ritt, Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Marc Blitzstein, Arthur Arent and Abe Feder all became established, in part, through their work in the FTP.

The story was adapted three times as a radio play for the series Suspense, on September 23, 1943 with Orson Welles as Zaroff and Keenan Wynn as Rainsford, on February 1, 1945 with frequent Welles collaborator Joseph Cotten portraying Rainsford, and on October 1, 1947 for the CBS radio program Escape.

Orson Welles notably spoke in a mid-Atlantic accent in the 1941 film Citizen Kane, as did many of his co-stars, such as Joseph Cotten.

She was scheduled to appear in the proposed Orson Welles production of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for RKO Radio Pictures.

In addition to Welles and Houseman, the Mercury Theatre troupe included Carl Frank, Joseph Cotten, Martin Gabel, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Hans Conried, Paul Stewart, Will Geer, George Coulouris, Peggy Lloyd, Olive Stanton, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Everett Sloane.

* Castle, William and Joseph, Robert, with introduction by Orson Welles ( 1945 ).

Welles hired her again for his film Journey into Fear alongside fellow Kane actor Joseph Cotten.

Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.

Such stars as the iconic Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and many other members of the Mercury Players performed there.