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)