Orson Welles
Biography
Movies 299
Citizen Kane
as Charles Foster Kane
1941
Casino Royale
as Le Chiffre
1967
The Third Man
as Harry Lime
1949
The Transformers: The Movie
as Unicron (voice)
1986
The Muppet Movie
as Lew Lord
1979
Touch of Evil
as Hank Quinlan
1958
Moby Dick
as Father Mapple
1956
A Man for All Seasons
as Cardinal Wolsey
1966
The Vikings
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1958
Waterloo
as Louis XVIII
1970
The Long, Hot Summer
as Will Varner
1958
King of Kings
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1961
The Lady from Shanghai
as Michael O'Hara
1947
Duel in the Sun
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Is Paris Burning?
as Konsul Nordling
1966
Catch-22
as Brigadier General Dreedle
1970
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Voyage of the Damned
as José Estedes
1976
The Trial
as Albert Hastler
1962
Jane Eyre
as Edward Rochester
1943
And Then There Were None
as Voice on Tape
1974
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Other Side of the Wind
as Journalist (uncredited)
2018
History of the World: Part I
as Narrator (voice)
1981
The Stranger
as Prof. Charles Rankin
1946
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
Butterfly
as Judge Rauch
1982
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Narrator (voice)
1942
Chimes at Midnight
as Falstaff
1965
Napoleon
as Sir Hudson Lowe
1955
Othello
as Othello
1951
Jodorowsky's Dune
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2013
Austerlitz
as Robert Fulton
1960
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
as The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
1963
Compulsion
as Jonathan Wilk
1959
Treasure Island
as Long John Silver
1972
F for Fake
as Self
1973
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
The Battle of Neretva
as Četnik
1969
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Benjamin Franklin
1953
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Lost in La Mancha
as Self (archive footage)
2002
The Fight for Rome
as Justinian
1968
Mr. Arkadin
as Gregory Arkadin
1955
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Start the Revolution Without Me
as The Narrator
1970
The V.I.P.s
as Max Buda
1963
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Macbeth
as Macbeth
1948
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
as Presenter / Narrator (voice)
1981
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)
2010
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
2014
Black Magic
as Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
1949
Directed by John Ford
as Narrator (voice)
1971
Marco the Magnificent
as Akerman, Marco's Teacher
1965
The Roots of Heaven
as Cy Sedgewick
1958
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
as Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
1975
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Ferry to Hong Kong
as Captain Hart
1959
The Battle of Sutjeska
as Winston Churchill
1973
Don Quixote
as Self
1992
La Classe américaine
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Get to Know Your Rabbit
as Mr. Delasandro
1972
Man in the Shadow
as Virgil Renchler
1957
Tepepa
as Colonel Cascorro
1969
It Happened One Christmas
as Henry F. Potter
1977
Tomorrow Is Forever
as John Andrew MacDonald
1946
The Kremlin Letter
as Bresnavitch
1970
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
as Self (archive footage)
2028
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
as Self (archive)
2007
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self (archive footage)
1995
Slapstick of Another Kind
as Aliens' Father (voice) (uncredited)
1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
The Biggest Battle
as Narratore
1978
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
as Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
1991
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
as Self
1997
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
as Self - Narrator
1982
The Merchant of Venice
as Shylock
1969
Show-Business at War
as Self
1943
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Malpertuis
as Cassavius
1972
The Immortal Story
as Charles Clay
1968
Magic with the Stars
as Self - Host
1982
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
as Justinian
1969
The Black Rose
as Bayan
1950
Necromancy
as Mr. Cato
1972
A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
The Eyes of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
2018
Lafayette
as Benjamin Franklin
1962
Three Cases of Murder
as Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
1955
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as Jonathan Lute
1967
Someone to Love
as Danny's Friend
1987
The Orson Welles Show
as Self
1979
The Fountain of Youth
as the narrator
1958
The Southern Star
as Plankett
1969
Twelve Plus One
as Markan
1969
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
as Self (archive footage)
1996
House of Cards
as Leschenhaut
1968
David and Goliath
as King Saul
1960
Journey into Fear
as Colonel Haki
1943
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
as Magician (uncredited)
1983
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Self / The Director / Sir John Falstaff (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
Follow the Boys
as Orson Welles (uncredited)
1944
The Tartars
as Burundai
1961
South Seas Adventure
as Supplemental Narrator (voice)
1958
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
as Self
1982
The Double McGuffin
as Narrator (voice)
1979
A Safe Place
as The Magician
1971
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self - Roaster (archive footage)
1998
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018
Too Much Johnson
as Keystone Kop (uncredited)
2013
Hot Tomorrows
as Parklawn Mortuary (voice)
1977
Genocide
as Narrator (voice)
1982
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Trent's Last Case
as Sigsbee Manderson
1952
On the tracks of a filmmaker
as Orson Welles
1988
The Late Great Planet Earth
as Self
1978
Who's Out There?
as Host
1975
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
1970
Ten Days' Wonder
as Théo Van Horn
1971
The Road to Bresson
as Self
1984
It's All True
as Self
1993
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self
1982
The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Jucy
as Elephant Lamp (archive sound)
2010
Around the World of Mike Todd
as Self - Narrator
1968
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
as J.P. Morgan
1980
Doug Henning's World of Magic
as Self - Special Guest
1982
Disorder
as Self
1950
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
as Self (archive footage)
1986
The Miracle of St. Anne
as The Director
1950
Prince of Foxes
as Cesare Borgia
1949
Morceaux de Cannes
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Vienna
as Himself
1968
Mysterious Castles of Clay
as Narrator
1978
Lost in "The Thinking"
as Self (archive footage)
2005
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
as Self (archive footage)
2021
According to Occam's Razor
1999
Swiss Family Robinson
as Opening Narrator (uncredited)
1940
Hot Money
as Sheriff Paisley
1983
The Sailor from Gibraltar
as Louis de Mozambique
1967
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
as Self (archive footage)
1995
The New Deal for Artists
as Narrator (voice)
1976
War of the Worlds
as narrator
2026
The Well
2005
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Sheridan Whiteside
1972
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
as Narrator
1974
Oedipus the King
as Tiresias
1968
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
as Self
1977
The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)
1937
American: An Odyssey to 1947
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Welles Raft
as Himself (Archive Footage)
2022
Know Your Ally: Britain
as Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)
1944
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
as Self (archive footage) (voice)
2016
Hopper/Welles
as Self
2020
Portrait: Orson Welles
as Self
1968
Trouble in the Glen
as Sanin Cejador y Mengues
1954
The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
as himself
1984
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
1970
A Horse Called Nijinsky
as Narrator
1970
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Future Shock
as Narrator
1972
Orson Welles' Magic Show
as Self
1985
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
as Self
2011
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self / Narrator
1976
A King's Story
as Narrator
1965
The Orson Welles Story
as Self
1982
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
as Self - Host
1958
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
1993
Is It Always Right to Be Right?
as Narrator
1970
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
as Self (Archive footage)
2000
Crack in the Mirror
as Hagolin / Lamerciere
1960
This Is Orson Welles
as Self
2015
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self (archive footage)
2005
My Guest is Orson Welles
2021
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
as Self
1979
The Deep
as Russ Brewer
2007
Filming Othello
as Host
1979
A Gift of Harvest
as Narrator
1981
It's Pretty, but is it Art?
as Self (voiceover)
2023
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
as An Actor Manager /Father Mapple /Ahab
1955
Working with Orson Welles
as Himself (Archive Footage)
1993
Man, Beast and Virtue
as Captain Perella, the Beast
1953
NASA: A Space Odyssey Vol. 3
as Narrator
2001
Ten Days That Shook the World
as Narrator
1967
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
as Self (Archive footage)
2001
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
as Narrator (voice)
1969
La ricotta
1963
The Magic History of Cinema
2017
Twelfth Night
as Narrator
1933
Bugs Bunny Superstar
as Narrator (voice)
1976
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
as Narrator
1977
The Greatest Adventure--The Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon
as Narrator
1979
The Monkey's Paw
as Host
1973
Welles' Language
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Looking Back Before You Leap
as General Zaroff (voice)
2023
The Shadow Knows
as Self (archive footage)
2012
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
as (archive footage)
2019
Flame of Persia
as Narrator
1971
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
as Narrator "The Scorpion and the Frog" (archive footage)
2025
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Othelo The Great
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
as Self
2024
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1965
Where Is Parsifal?
as Klingsor
1984
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
as Self
2021
Orson Welles - Das vermarktete Genie
as Self
1975
The Quest for Fire Adventure
as Narrator
1982
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
as Self
1984
Lords of the Forest
as Narrator (voice)
1958
Orson Welles in Spain
as Himself
1966
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
as Self
1972
Two Wise Old Men – Socrates and Noah
1972
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
as Self
1967
The Battle of Grovers Mill
as Radio Host (voice) (archival footage)
2024
Tut: The Boy King
as Himself - Host
1977
Orson Welles at The Magic Castle
as Self
1978
Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee
as Narrator
Brasil
as Self (archive footage)
1981
A Step Away
as English Narrator
1980
The Enemy Before Us
as Narrator
1970
The Witching
as Mr. Cato
1983
To Build a Fire
as Narrator (voice)
1969
Magnificent Monsters of the Deep
as Narrator
1975
The Greenstone
as Narrator (voice)
1980
The Other Side of Welles
as Self (archive footage)
2005
The Hearts of Age
as Death
1934
An Arabian Night
as Storyteller
1960
It's Not All True
as Himself (archive footage)
1986
The Dreamers
as Marcus Kleek
1985
Five Columns on the Front Page: Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
as Self (narrator)
1960
Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
as Himself
2010
The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)
as (archive footage)
2002
It's All Brazil
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Upon This Rock
as Michelangelo (voice)
1970
Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française
as Himself
1983
Orson Welles Talks With Roger Hill
as (Self)
2005
Mexico City, Old and New
as Narrator
1945
Americans on Everest
as Narrator- Self
1965
Orson Welles and People: Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1956
To Try Again... and Succeed
as Narrator (voice)
1979
The Force Beyond
as Himself (archive footage)
1977
Moby Dick
as Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)
2000
Profile No. 6: Orson Welles
1965
King Lear
as King Lear
1953
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
as Narrator
1977
A Legend a Lifetime: Citizen Welles
1974
Sentinels of Silence
1971
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
as Narrator
1979
A Mother's Tale
as Narrator
1976
The Green Goddess
as Rajah/Narrator
1939
Caesar's Guide to Gaming with Orson Welles
as Himself
1978
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. II – Clarence Darrow
1970
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
as Narrator
1980
High Journey
as Narrator
1959
The Cave
as Narrator
1973
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
as Falstaff
2023
Unseen Lollo
as Himself
1986
The Finest Hours
as Narrator (voice)
1964
Kelly Country
as Narrator
1973
Filming 'The Trial'
as Self
2002
The UFO Conspiracy
as Self (archive sound)
2004
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
as Narrator
1984
The Psychic Connection
as Narrator
1983
The Making Of
as Self (archival)
2026
The Merchant of Venice (Rushes)
as Shylock
1970
One Man Band
as Presenter / Various
1999
Embers & Dust
as Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)
2016
King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands
as Self - Narrator
1983
River of the Ocean
as Narrator (English)
1962
An Evening with Orson Welles: My Little Boy
1970
Magic Mirror Maze
2012
Hi-Fi
1999
Wagner e Venezia
as Richard Wagner (voice)
1982
The Scorpion and the Frog
as Narrator (archive footage)
2025
WeirdWorld
as Troy2000 (Archive footage)
2025
From Fiber to Fabric: Wool's a Natural
as Narrator
1977
Lucifer et moi
as (archive footage 1982)
2009
Almonds and Raisins
as Narrator
1984
Return to Glennascaul
as Narrator
1952
In Our Hands
as Himself
1984
Freedom River
as Narrator
1971
The Hitch Hiker
as Ronald Adams
2004
The Land of the Basques
as Himself
1955
An Evening with Orson Welles: American Heritage, Vol. I – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain
1970
Beggars Would Ride
as Narrator
1967
Orson Welles Uncut
2005
Power and Corruption
as Himself
1973
Battle for Survival
as Narrator
1946
Something Else
Search for the Titanic
as Self - Host
1981
Out of Darkness
as Self - Narrator
1956TV Shows 47
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self - Guest Host
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
Magnum, P.I.
as Robin Masters (voice)
1980
American Experience
as Self (archive footage)
1988
I Love Lucy
as Orson Welles
1951
Omnibus
as Self - Presenter
1967
Moonlighting
as Orson Welles
1985
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Dinah!
as Self
1974
The Steve Allen Show
as Self
1956
Night Gallery
as Narrator
1970
The Name of the Game
as Narrator
1968
Omnibus
as King Lear
1952
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
Cérémonie des César
as Self - President
1976
Parkinson
as Self - Guest (archive footage)
2004
Shōgun
as Narrator
1980
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
National Geographic Specials
as Narrator
1965
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Self - Host
1973
Reflets de Cannes
as Self
1954
The Magic of David Copperfield
as Host
1978
Monitor
1958
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sheridan Whiteside
1951
Hollywood and the Stars
as Self (archive footage)
1963
Pour le plaisir
as Self
1964
Tempo
as Self
1961
Survival
as Narrator
1961
Scene of the Crime
1985
A Woman Called Moses
as Narrator (voice)
1978
Ford Star Jubilee
as Oscar Jaffe
1955
Around the World with Orson Welles
as Host: Orson Welles
1955
In the Land of Don Quixote
as Himself
1964
Colgate Theatre
1958
Doug Henning's World of Magic
as Self
1975
Tales of the Klondike
as Narrator
1981
Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Orson Welles' Sketch Book
as Himself - Host
1955
LIFE BEYOND
as Self (voice)
2019