The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Genres:
Simon Callow as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
Christopher Welles as Self - Orson's Oldest Daughter
Joanne Hill Styles as Self - Orson's Classmate
Norman Lloyd as Self - Actor
Julie Taymor as Self - Stage and Film Director
Paolo Cherchi Usai as Self - G. Eastman House Curator
Peter Bogdanovich as Self - Filmmaker
James Naremore as Self - Writer and Film Scholar
Elvis Mitchell as Self - Film Critic
Jonathan Rosenbaum as Self - Film Critic
Henry Jaglom as Self - Filmmaker and Orson's Friend
Joseph McBride as Self - Welles' Biographer
Peter Brook as Self - Filmmaker
Walter Murch as Self - Film and Sound Editor
Eric Sherman as Self - Filmmaker
Costa-Gavras as Self - Filmmaker
Oja Kodar as Self - Actress and Orson's Companion
Buck Henry as Self - Actor
Richard Benjamin as Self - Filmmaker
Wolfgang Puck as Self - Chef
Stefan Drößler as Self - Film Restorer
Michael Dawson as Self - Film Restorer
Paul Mazursky as Self - Filmmaker
Frank Marshall as Self - Filmmaker
Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
Micheál Mac Liammóir as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Ruth Ford as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Norman Corwin as Self - Pioneer Radio Producer (archive footage)
William Alland as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Reggie Armour as Self - RKO Executive (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
William Randolph Hearst as Self - Press Tycoon (archive footage)
John Houseman as Self - Actor (archive footage)
William Friedkin as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Robert Wise as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Richard Wilson as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Pandro S. Berman as Self - Producer (archive footage)
Martin Scorsese as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Suzanne Cloutier as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Beatrice Welles as Self - Orson's Youngest Daughter (archive footage)
Charlton Heston as Self - Actor (archive footage)
George Lucas as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Anthony Perkins as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Richard Linklater as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Jeanne Moreau as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Peter Viertel as Self - Writer and Orson's Friend (archive footage)
Sydney Pollack as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
John Huston as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Dennis Hopper as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
François Mitterrand as Self - Politician (archive footage)
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