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A Short Biography of Orson Welles

Author Name:

Orson Welles

Born As:

George Orson Welles

Other Names:

Orson Welles

Born:

6 May 1915

Died:

10 Oct 1985




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Actor, writer and filmmaker                          
                          
Mother Beatrice Ives
Father Richard Head Welles - one older brother.
First wife Virginia Nicholson in 1934, one daughter, Christopher.                          
Iin a BFI Top Ten Directors poll by the British Film Institute as the greatest film director of all time in 2002.                          
Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, it caused a large number of listeners to panic.