Orson Welles

Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), full name George Orson Welles, was a US director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.

Wisdom & Quotes

• In Italy for thirty years under the Bogias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

- The Third Man
(the script writer was Graham Greene, but Welles reportedly added this passage himself.)

Barbara Cushing Paley