"Orson Welles George Orson Welles (; May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably ""Caesar"" (1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar""; in radio, the legendary 1938 broadcast ""The War of the Worlds""; and in film, ""Citizen Kane"" (1941), consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made. In his 20s, Welles directed a number of high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of ""Macbeth"""
"bones. The hag, the spinning wheel, and the piles of bones are direct references to the Noh play Adachigahara (also called Kurozuka), one of many artistic elements Kurosawa borrowed from Noh theatre for the film. Roman Polanski's 1971 film version of ""Macbeth"" contained many parallels to his personal life in its graphic and violent depictions. His wife Sharon Tate had been murdered two years earlier by Charles Manson and three women. Many critics saw this as a clear parallel to Macbeth's murders at the urging of the Three Witches within the film. ""Scotland, PA"", a 2001 parody film directed by"
"flew to Paris to discuss the project personally with the Russian author. Orson Welles George Orson Welles (; May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably ""Caesar"" (1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar""; in radio, the legendary 1938 broadcast ""The War of the Worlds""; and in film, ""Citizen Kane"" (1941), consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made. In his 20s, Welles directed a number of high-profile"
"Desdemona - or Shakespeare, according to which newspaper you read."" Othello (Orson Welles stage production) Othello was a 1951 production of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, which was produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles in his first appearance on the London stage. In 1948, Orson Welles began work on a self-financed film of ""Othello"", which was not completed until 1952. Filming was sporadic, and he frequently stopped the production to take on other acting jobs (including ""The Third Man"") to raise more funds. In 1951, Welles had completed principal photography, but was still trying to raise money"
"by ""Kagemusha"" in the early 1980s before securing financial backing to film ""Ran"". ""Ran"" was Kurosawa's second encounter with Shakespeare during his filmmaking career. In 1957, Kurosawa had directed based on Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"". The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play ""Macbeth"" from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. ""Throne of Blood"" tells the story of a warrior, like Macbeth, who assassinates his sovereign at the urging of his ambitious wife. Despite the changes in setting and language, both ""Ran"" and ""Throne of Blood"" are considered to be among the best film adaptations"
"to adapting Shakespeare, choosing the play ""King Lear"" for his 1985 film ""Ran"", and again moving the setting to feudal Japan. ""Throne of Blood"" is also referenced in the anime film ""Millennium Actress"" (2001) in the form of the Forest Spirit/Witch. It was adapted for the stage by director Ping Chong, premiering at the 2010 Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Throne of Blood As with the play, the film tells the story of a warrior who assassinates his sovereign at the urging of his ambitious wife. Kurosawa was a fan of the play and intended to make his own"
"Othello (Orson Welles stage production) Othello was a 1951 production of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, which was produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles in his first appearance on the London stage. In 1948, Orson Welles began work on a self-financed film of ""Othello"", which was not completed until 1952. Filming was sporadic, and he frequently stopped the production to take on other acting jobs (including ""The Third Man"") to raise more funds. In 1951, Welles had completed principal photography, but was still trying to raise money to finish editing the film. He was thus delighted to"
"Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Gorilla Theatre in Tampa, Florida. In 2006 it received a rehearsed reading at London's Old Vic Theatre, and in July 2015 received its European premiere directed by Alice Hamilton at London's Southwark Playhouse, as part of the Orson Welles centenary. The cast included John Hodgkinson as Orson Welles, Adrian Lukis as Laurence Olivier, Louise Ford as Joan Plowright, Gina Bellman as Vivien Leigh, Edward Bennett as Kenneth Tynan, and Ciaran O'Brien as the stagehand Sean. Orson's Shadow Orson's Shadow is a play by Austin Pendleton. The play received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination"
"include parts in ""Seinfeld"", ""Ally McBeal"", ""Ed"", ""Frasier"", ""Moesha"", ""3rd Rock from the Sun"", ""Cheers"", ""Picket Fences"", ""Third Watch"", """", """", and ""Law & Order"". Henry Woronicz Henry Woronicz (born 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer who was formerly the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 1991 to 1995. He was an actor and resident director there starting in 1984. In addition to his work at OSF, he has acted and directed in many other theaters, and has extensive film and TV credits. Woronicz was born in Northampton, Massachusetts of Polish and Irish descent. He graduated"
"November 1961. In Region A, The Criterion Collection released the film on Blu-ray in 2014, having released a DVD version 10 years before. In 1961, the ""Time"" review praised Kurosawa and the film as ""a visual descent into the hell of greed and superstition"". Writing for ""The New York Times"", Bosley Crowther called the idea of Shakespeare in Japanese ""amusing,"" and complimented the cinematography. Most critics stated it was the visuals that filled the gap left by the removal of Shakespeare's poetry. U.K. directors Geoffrey Reeve and Peter Brook considered the film to be a masterpiece, but denied it was"
"story that is not based on the play at all. In Britain, where stage plays tend to be more popular as a form of entertainment than currently in the United States, many films began as a stage productions. Some British films and British/American collaborations that were based on successful British plays include ""Gaslight"" (1940), ""Blithe Spirit"" (1945), ""Rope"" (1948), ""Look Back in Anger"" (1959), ""Oh, What a Lovely War!"" (1969), ""Sleuth"" (1972), ""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"" (1975), ""Shirley Valentine"" (1989), ""The Madness of King George"" (1994), ""The History Boys"" (2006), "" Quartet"" (2012), and ""The Lady in the Van"""
"operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Otto Nicolai, and in Orson Welles' 1966 film ""Chimes at Midnight"". The operas focus on his role in ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"", while the film adapts from the Henriad and ""The Merry Wives"". Welles, who played Falstaff in his film, considered the character to be ""Shakespeare's greatest creation"". Falstaff appears in three of Shakespeare's plays, ""Henry IV, Part 1"", ""Henry IV, Part 2"", and ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"". His death is mentioned in ""Henry V"" but he has no lines, nor is it directed that he appear on stage. However,"
"Bergman write their film ideas as novels before they begin producing them as films, although neither director has allowed these prose treatments to be published. Finally, films have inspired and been adapted into plays. John Waters's films have been successfully mounted as plays; both ""Hairspray"" and ""Cry-Baby"" have been adapted, and other films have spurred subsequent theatrical adaptations. ""Spamalot"" is a Broadway play based on Monty Python films. In a rare case of a film being adapted from a stage musical adaptation of a film, in 2005, the film adaptation of the stage musical based on Mel Brooks' classic comedy"
"Me and Orson Welles Me and Orson Welles is a 2008 British-American period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's groundbreaking stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"". He becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant. The film was shot in London and New York and on the Isle of Man in February, March and April 2008, and was released in the United States on November"
"Roman Polanski, and Jacques Tati, along with the American movie directors Stanley Kubrick and Billy Wilder. He has stated that Billy Wilder's ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950) is one of his favourite motion pictures, as is Kubrick's ""Lolita"" (1962). He has also cited Herk Harvey's ""Carnival of Souls"" (1962) and Jerzy Skolimowski's ""Deep End"" (1970) as an influence on his work. There are several recurring themes within Lynch's work, leading film critics Le Blanc and Odell to state that ""his films are so packed with motifs, recurrent characters, images, compositions and techniques that you could view his entire output as one large"
"Screenplay for Citizen Kane The authorship of the screenplay for ""Citizen Kane"", the 1941 American motion picture that marked the feature film debut of Orson Welles, has been one of the film's long-standing controversies. With a story spanning 60 years, the quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a fictional character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick. A rich incorporation of the experiences and knowledge of its authors, the film earned an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for"
"Orson's Shadow Orson's Shadow is a play by Austin Pendleton. The play received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Play and won the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. The play, based on true events, is set in 1960 London. In his declining years, Orson Welles is directing a production of Eugène Ionesco's ""Rhinoceros"", starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. Olivier is fresh from his triumphant theatrical portrayal of vaudevillian Archie Rice and is about to reprise the role in the film adaptation of John Osborne's ""The Entertainer"". He and Plowright are in the early stages of a romantic"
"Decca Records (5323762). Me and Orson Welles Me and Orson Welles is a 2008 British-American period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's groundbreaking stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"". He becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant. The film was shot in London and New York and on the Isle of Man in February, March and April 2008, and was released in the United"
"1970 and 1976. Co-written by Welles and Oja Kodar, it is the story of an aging film director (John Huston) looking for funds to complete his final film. The cast includes Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Edmond O'Brien, Cameron Mitchell and Dennis Hopper. Financed by Iranian backers, ownership of the film fell into a legal quagmire after the Shah of Iran was deposed. The legal disputes kept the film in its unfinished state until early 2017, and was finally released in November 2018. Welles portrayed Louis XVIII of France in the 1970 film ""Waterloo"", and narrated the beginning and"
"solid, durable story structure on which to build,"" Carringer wrote. Welles then ""adapted it with the same freedom and disregard for authority with which he adapt[ed] a Shakespeare play or a thriller by Nicholas Blake."" The screenplay for ""Citizen Kane"" received the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay), shared by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles. Screenplay for Citizen Kane The authorship of the screenplay for ""Citizen Kane"", the 1941 American motion picture that marked the feature film debut of Orson Welles, has been one of the film's long-standing controversies. With a story spanning 60 years, the quasi-biographical film"
"Sources for Citizen Kane The sources for ""Citizen Kane"", the 1941 American motion picture that marked the feature film debut of Orson Welles, have been the subject of speculation and controversy since the project's inception. With a story spanning 60 years, the quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a fictional character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick. A rich incorporation of the experiences and knowledge of its authors, the film earned an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)"
"the 1992 book ""This is Orson Welles"" — a record of interviews Peter Bogdanovich conducted with Orson Welles — began his April 2002 review of ""The Cat's Meow"" with this exchange about ""Citizen Kane"" (1941): OW: In the original script we had a scene based on a notorious thing Hearst had done, which I still cannot repeat for publication. And I cut it out because I thought it hurt the film and wasn’t in keeping with Kane’s character. If I’d kept it in, I would have had no trouble with Hearst. He wouldn’t have dared admit it was him.<br>PB: Did"
"run. Today, it is considered by many to be among the finest films dealing with the psychological effects of the global nuclear stalemate. Kurosawa's next project, ""Throne of Blood"", an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth""—set, like ""Seven Samurai"", in the Sengoku Era—represented an ambitious transposition of the English work into a Japanese context. Kurosawa instructed his leading actress, Isuzu Yamada, to regard the work as if it were a cinematic version of a ""Japanese"" rather than a European literary classic. Given Kurosawa's appreciation of traditional Japanese stage acting, the acting of the players, particularly Yamada, draws heavily on the stylized"
"Caesar (Mercury Theatre) Caesar is the title of Orson Welles's innovative 1937 adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"", a modern-dress bare-stage production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Considered Welles's highest achievement in the theatre, it premiered November 11, 1937, as the first production of the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented an acclaimed series of productions on Broadway through 1941. Breaking with the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, Orson Welles and John Houseman founded their own repertory company, which they called the Mercury Theatre. The name was inspired by the title of"
"non-Shakespearean story. ""Hamlet"" and ""Romeo and Juliet"" are the two plays which have most often been used in this way. Usually, Shakespeare's story has some parallel or resonance with the main plot. Films featuring characters performing scenes from ""Romeo and Juliet"" include the 1912 and 1982 film versions of Charles Dickens' ""Nicholas Nickleby"", ""Cured Hams"" (1927), ""Drama De Luxe"" (1927), ""Broadway Fever"" (1928), ""Les amants de Vérone"" (1949), ""Marjorie Morningstar"" (1958), ""Carry on Teacher"" (1959) ""Shakespeare Wallah"" (1965) and, significantly, ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998). The 1941 film Playmates features bandleader Kay Kyser and Shakespearean actor John Barrymore playing themselves in"
"Thatcher. Kane has enough wealth to build Chicago's opera house, as well as his unfinished mansion, Xanadu. The mansion contains Kane's vast collection of classical sculptures and art, and the newsreel claims that portions of Xanadu were taken from other famous palaces overseas. Charles Foster Kane Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character and the subject of Orson Welles' 1941 film ""Citizen Kane"". The character is widely believed to be based on publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Welles played Kane (receiving an Oscar nomination), with Buddy Swan playing Kane as a child. Welles also produced, co-wrote and directed the film."
"Charles Foster Kane Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character and the subject of Orson Welles' 1941 film ""Citizen Kane"". The character is widely believed to be based on publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Welles played Kane (receiving an Oscar nomination), with Buddy Swan playing Kane as a child. Welles also produced, co-wrote and directed the film. The general consensus is that William Randolph Hearst is the primary inspiration behind Charles Foster Kane. In the film, Kane is given the line ""You provide the prose poems; I'll provide the war,"" undeniably similar to ""You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish"
"a stage actor on both sides of the Atlantic. Coinciding with the Broadway production there was also a four-week revival in London at the Arts Theatre starring Francis L. Sullivan and produced by Ronald Adam, which opened on 25 October 1938. The play was revived again at the Bolton's Theatre Club, starring Frank Pettingell and directed by Leslie Stokes, in 1948. The film ""Oscar Wilde"", based on the Stokes brothers' play with Robert Morley in the lead, was released in 1960. Oscar Wilde (play) Oscar Wilde is a 1936 play written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes. It is based on"
"Carnage (2011 film) Carnage is a 2011 black comedy-drama film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the Tony Award-winning play ""God of Carnage"" by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The screenplay is by Reza and Polanski. The film is an international co-production of France, Germany, Poland, and Spain. It stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly. In the film, presented in a classic case of much ado about nothing, two sets of parents try to resolve a situation in a civilised manner. But, the actual matter aside, it is their own idiosyncrasies that rise to the surface."
"Horsethief"" (1971). Remaining close friends over the years, Gutowski and Polanski joined forces again to produce together ""The Pianist"" (2002), which won multiple Oscars. Gutowski staged several plays, including ""Passion Flower Hotel"" (1965), ""Death and the Maiden"" (1992) and """" (2007). In 2004, his Polish autobiography ""Od Holocaustu do Hollywood"" (""From Holocaust to Hollywood""), was published. An English-language edition under the title ""With Balls and Chutzpah: A Story of Survival"" was issued in the U.S. in 2011. In 2014, his son, the Hollywood-based filmmaker/producer Adam Bardach, made a documentary biopic ""Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the"
"(2006), Xandria (2007), Pete Doherty (2009), Saltatio Mortis (2009), 9GOATS BLACK OUT (2009), Justin Vivian Bond (2011), Regina Spektor and Kaya (2012), Behemoth (2014), Wovenhand (2014), Marriages (2015), and Jarvis Cocker (2017). Wilde's ""Salome"" has often been made into a film, notably a 1923 silent film, ""Salome"", starring Alla Nazimova in the title role and a 1988 Ken Russell play-within-a-film treatment, ""Salome's Last Dance"", which also includes Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas as characters. Steven Berkoff filmed his stage version of the play in 1992. In the 1950 film ""Sunset Boulevard"", the principal character Norma Desmond is portrayed as writing"
"film resembles a Soviet dissident who despite his own hesitation, fears and doubts, can no longer stand the moral rot around him. The film was based on a script written by the novelist Boris Pasternak, who had been persecuted under Stalin. The 1971 version of ""King Lear"", also directed by Kozintsev presented the play as a ""Tolstoyan panorama of bestiality and courage"" as Lear finds his moral redemption amongst the common people. Shakespeare for a variety of reasons had never caught on in France, and even when his plays were performed in France in the 19th century, they were drastically"
"Oscar to him at the Deauville Film Festival five months later in a public ceremony. Polanski later received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2004. ""Oliver Twist"" is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, written by ""The Pianist""s Ronald Harwood and shot in Prague. Polanski said in interviews that he made the film as something he could show his children, and that the life of the young scavenger mirrored his own life, fending for himself in World War II Poland. ""The Ghost Writer"", a thriller focusing on"