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 ).

Shooting had still not begun on a Welles film after a year, but after a meeting with writer Herman J. Mankiewicz Welles had a suitable project.

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.

Originally scheduled to be premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival with Janet Leigh, Walter Murch and Rick Schmidlin attending, the screening was canceled in the eleventh-hour after threats of litigation from Welles ' daughter, Beatrice Welles, who has in the past issued similar threats against some parties who try to show or alter her father's work ( such as the Touch of Evil restoration or the completion of Welles ' last film The Other Side of the Wind ).

Shortly after he joined Kid Ory's band, which was featured for a time on a radio program hosted by Orson Welles.

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 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.

* The hotel is featured in the movie Valley of the Dolls ; Anne Welles stayed there after arriving in New York for the first time.

The CD notes that Welles never met Parsons or Eric Woolfson, but sent a tape to them of the performance shortly after the album was manufactured in 1976.

Welles's bosses at RKO Radio Pictures, after losing money on Citizen Kane, urged Welles to choose as his next film a subject with more commercial appeal.

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.

Welles ultimately left the Cabinet on March 3, 1869, having returned to the Democratic Party after disagreeing with Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies but supporting him during his impeachment trial.

Although offering a unique and quite non pareil portrayal of the immense personalities and problems facing the men who led the Union to ultimate victory, the first edition ( published in 1911 ) suffers from rewrites by Welles himself and after his death, by his son ; the 1960 edition is drawn directly from his original manuscript.

The Dining Commons at Cheshire Academy and the Gideon Welles School in Glastonbury, Connecticut are also named after him.

That same year, 1937, after detaching themselves from the Federal Theatre Project, Houseman and Welles did The Cradle Will Rock as a full, independent production on Broadway.

In 1983 Temple directed a film for the BBC Arena series called It's All True, named after the 1942 unfinished Orson Welles film.

During the months after his release from the hospital, he and Welles began working on story ideas which led to the creation of Citizen Kane.

Welles attended Harvard College where he studied " economics, Iberian literature and culture ," and graduated after 3 years in 1914.

In the spring of 1939, Welles began preliminary discussions with RKO's head of production, George Schaefer, with Welles and his Mercury players being given a two picture deal, in which Welles would produce, direct, perform, and have full creative control of his projects.

In a 1942 memorandum describing his conversations with British Ambassador Lord Halifax, Welles stated that he would have preferred to characterize the plebiscites supporting the annexations as " faked ".

The two-picture deal promised full creative control for the young director below an agreed budget limit, and Welles intention was to feature the Mercury Players in his productions.

Most agreed that the production owed more to Welles than it did to Shakespeare.

After a decade in Europe during which he completed only a few films, Welles was eager to direct for Hollywood again, so he agreed to take only an acting fee for the role of Quinlan.

Still drawn to Welles, as was virtually everyone in his sphere, Houseman agreed.

( De Hory would commit suicide a few years after the release of Welles ' film, on hearing that Spain had agreed to turn him over to the French authorities.

The next day, Jane shows her latest tape recording to her husband Dr. Lodge ( Laurence Welles ), who has agreed to support their open-marriage.

Welles, though he agreed to host the film, was not a believer in the subject matter presented.

As Houseman attempted to leave, Welles began hurling dish heaters at him, effectively ending both their partnership and friendship.

He accepted Welles ' resignation with regret and explained that Welles was prompted to leave government service because of " his wife's poor health.

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

Cotten had his first starring role in Welles's second production for the Federal Theatre Project — the farce Horse Eats Hat, adapted by Welles and Edwin Denby from Eugène Labiche's play, Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie.

It became known as the Voodoo Macbeth, because Welles set the play in post-colonial Haiti.

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

* 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.

McGoohan also stated that he was influenced by his experience from theater, including his work in Orson Welles ' 1955 play Moby Dick Rehearsed and the 1962 BBC teleplay The Prisoner by Bridget Boland.

In a scene near the end of the film, Ed Wood ( Johnny Depp ) is complaining to Orson Welles ( Vincent D ' Onofrio ) about how producers always want the wrong actors to play certain parts in their movies.

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

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.

Richardson was engaged to play the role of Mercutio, replacing Orson Welles, in the 1934 Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet.

D ' Onofrio continued to play a wide variety of roles, including director Orson Welles in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, farmer Edgar and the evil " Bug " that possesses him from Men in Black, the father of a saint in Nancy Savoca's Household Saints, Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie, a time traveler from the distant future in Happy Accidents, and opposite Jennifer Lopez as serial killer Carl Stargher in The Cell.

Orson Welles adapted the novel as a one-hour radio play for the November 12, 1939, episode of the Campbell Playhouse.

The following year, he went on to play ' Poor Tom ' in another Welles project, the TV film of King Lear ( 1953 ) for CBS.

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.

Houseman would later, however, play a pivotal role in ushering Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), which starred Welles.

" Actor Mel Welles was scheduled to play a character named " Draco Cardala ", Jonathan Haze was scheduled to play " Archie Aroma ," and Jack Nicholson would have played a character named " Jocko ".

" Films released in 1916 ( starring Gillette as Holmes ) and 1922 ( starring John Barrymore ), both titled Sherlock Holmes, were based on the play, as well as a 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptation titled The Immortal Sherlock Holmes, starring Orson Welles as Holmes, although in none of these retellings does Holmes die ( and indeed in the two film versions he marries ).

" Films released in 1916 ( starring Gillette as Holmes ) and 1922 ( starring John Barrymore ), both titled Sherlock Holmes, were based on the play, as well as a 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptation titled The Immortal Sherlock Holmes, starring Orson Welles as Holmes.

When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.

Another story suggests that although the script had yet to be written, Welles wanted Chaplin to play the lead role.