Orson Welles was born 100 years ago, died 30 years ago and released his most celebrated film, "Citizen Kane," almost 75 years ago. There is not likely to be a more fitting observance of those ...

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio.

The conventional wisdom regarding Orson Welles is that he reached the very pinnacle of his career as the boy wonder genius behind Citizen Kane and spent the rest of his life tumbling back to earth.

In his documentary about Orson Welles, the filmmaker Mark Cousins recalls chancing on the actor-director’s Touch of Evil, his magnificent film noir from 1958, as a teenager. Cousins describes the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Film-maker Mark Cousins addresses his film-making hero directly in The Eyes of Orson Welles. “Dear Orson . . . ” ...

No one writes biographies of film legends like Patrick McGilligan. Among his most popular and controversial subjects are Clint Eastwood (The Life and Legend), Alfred Hitchcock (A Life in Darkness and ...

One week before his death, the filmmaker opened up about 'Citizen Kane,' his relationship with Hollywood and how he'll be remembered. Netflix’s new movie, Mank, chronicles the development of the ...

Actor, poet, cartoonist and only ten." headlined a story in a Wisconsin paper with a shot of the cherubic little Orson Welles. Simon Callow's Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu (640 pages. Viking.

At the IDA Screening Series, the documentarian said seeking the truth from Welles was "a fool's journey." The documentary and a completed version of Welles’ movie, “The Other Side of the Wind,” are ...

If artists might be said to receive their gifts, from whoever hands out these things, like children on Christmas morning, rare is the future creator who gets both the telescope and the microscope set.

The good news is that the second volume of Simon Callow's Orson Welles biography has just appeared. It was in 1995 that The Road to Xanadu was published by Cape, 640 pages, taking us up to the opening ...