Orson Welles
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 38 years ago |
Date of birth | May 6,1915 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Kenosha |
Wisconsin | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 10,1985 |
Died | Hollywood |
Los Angeles | |
California | |
United States | |
Spouse | Paola Mori |
Rita Hayworth | |
Virginia Nicholson | |
Height | 187 (cm) |
Education | Todd Seminary for Boys |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago | |
Children | Rebecca Welles |
Beatrice Welles | |
Christopher Welles Feder | |
Parents | Richard Head Welles |
Beatrice Ives | |
Grandchildren | Marc McKerrow |
Siblings | Dickie Welles |
Richard Ives Welles | |
Full name | George Orson Welles |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 404044 |
Orson Welles on Shakespeare
The big brass ring
The Cradle Will Rock: An Original Screenplay
The Trial
Radio's Greatest Detectives
The Masterworks of Orson Welles
Citizen Kane: The Complete Screenplay
Mr. Arkadin: Aka Confidential Report: The Secret Sordid Life of an International Tycoon
The Orson Welles Library
War of Worlds: Original Broadcast
The Golden Age of Radio
Io, Orson Welles
Sed de mal[: Touch of evil
Orson Welles
Este e Orson Welles
Monsieur Arkadin
Citizen Cane Book
Les Misérables: Radio Drama of the Classic Victor Hugo Masterpiece
W W W W. Wars of worlds of Wells and Welles
The Merchant of Venice: Revised Edition
Rip Van Winkle Renascent
The Life Of Jesus: Jesus Of Nazareth
The Merchant of Venice: Macbeth
Magic Lens: The Transformation of the Visual Arts in the Narrative World of Carlos Fuentes
Treasure Island
Seven Plays by William Shakespeare: With Transgender Characters, Plus Hamlet
Almanac - Dramatic Readings
This is Orson Welles
The War of the Worlds
Orson Welles: Interviews
The Other Side of the Wind
The Stranger
The Third Man
Jane Eyre
The Trial
The Magnificent Ambersons
F for Fake
Chimes at Midnight
The Lady from Shanghai
Othello
Mr. Arkadin
Macbeth
The Transformers: The Movie
The Immortal Story
It's All True
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Journey into Fear
Don Quixote
A Man for All Seasons
Moby Dick
Treasure Island
Too Much Johnson
The Orson Welles Show
Around the World with Orson Welles
The Fountain of Youth
David and Goliath
Filming Othello
The Southern Star
Casino Royale
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Filming The Trial
Three Cases of Murder
The Merchant of Venice
The Long, Hot Summer
Compulsion
Someone to Love
Moby Dick— Rehearsed
The Muppet Movie
Orson Welles' Magic Show
Orson Welles' Sketch Book
Tomorrow Is Forever
The Hearts of Age
One Man Band
Battle of Neretva
Man in the Shadow
The Black Rose
Trouble in the Glen
Portrait of Gina
The V. I. P. s
Citizen Kane
War Of The Worlds
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Academy Honorary Award
AFI Life Achievement Award
Cannes Best Actor Award
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
David di Donatello Luchino Visconti Award
Retro Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
Homage for Overall Work
Peabody Award
Orson Welles Life story
George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
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Michael Parkinson obituary: Setting the standard for TV talk shows
Michael Parkinson 's gentle but probing style set a standard for television chat shows that has rarely been equalled.
In a remarkable career, he interviewed some of The Most famous people in The World , including many of the Hollywood Stars he had idolised as a child.
His interviews always adhered to his own rigorous journalistic standards and he was insistent that his guest, not himself, should be The Star of The Show .
He was at His Best when he managed to winkle out sensitive details of a guest's life without appearing prurient.
He once famously defined a Chat Show as " an unnatural act between Consenting Adults in public".
Michael Parkinson was born on 28 March 1935 in the South Yorkshire village of Cudworth, The Son of a miner.
His father was a great believer in self-improvement and the young Parkinson was encouraged to go to The Local Working Men 's Club where he read copies of the Manchester Guardian, a paper for which he would later write.
Parkinson senior was also determined that young Michael would not follow him down The Pit . To that end he took his son down into one of the narrowest seams in Grimethorpe Colliery, an experience that made Parkinson determined to seek an alternative career.
As a child in The Days before television he used to go regularly to his local cinema, giving rise to a lifelong passion for film and its stars as well as a burning desire to marry Lauren Bacall .
Parkinson attended The Local primary school before Moving On to Barnsley Grammar School where he achieved just two O-Levels and discovered a talent for writing by providing essays for his class mates at half a shilling each.
He also learned to play cricket, developing an aptitude for The Game that saw him seriously consider becoming a professional.
While playing for Barnsley Cricket Club he attended trials for Yorkshire alongside The Future umpire Dickie Bird and a young batsman called Geoffrey Boycott .
His modest academic achievements were enough to allow him to get a job on a local newspaper, helping to collate sports results.
" Kidnapped"It was his National Service that finally got him out of The Village and opened his eyes to the wider World Beyond what he referred to as the " parochial" nature of his upbringing.
He had a successful stint in uniform, receiving a commission and becoming the youngest captain in the British Army , seeing action during the Suez Crisis .
His time as an officer also enabled him to move into social circles that might have remained closed to a young Yorkshire lad who left school at 16 and had never been to university.
After his return to civilian life he went to work for the Manchester Guardian which became simply, The Guardian , in 1959. In the same year Parkinson married Doncaster-born Mary Heneghan, to whom he had proposed on The Balcony of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough.
Parkinson left The Guardian and began working in London for the Daily Express while Mary, who was pregnant with their first child, remained in Manchester.
Parkinson later recalled getting a phone call from his father to say that he had " kidnapped" Mary and taken her Back Home in order to ensure that the couple's first child, which his father assumed would be a boy, would be born in Yorkshire and therefore qualify to play cricket for The County .
His move into television came when he was invited to a screen test by Granada, which was commissioning a new Current Affairs programme.
Parkinson later reflected that he had never thought of television as a career: " We had a contemptuous, bemused view of television at The Guardian in Those Days . We Believed it would go away. "
Intending to go, purely so he could write a cynical newspaper piece on the upstart new medium, he was quickly swept up in what he referred to as the " theatrical excitement" of the television studio.
CredibilityHe worked as a Current Affairs presenter and reporter for both Granada and The Bbc and, in 1969, presented a Late Night film review for Granada during which he did an interview with Laurence Olivier .
When Parkinson was recruited to present his eponymous show on Bbc One , The Corporation 's head of light entertainment, Bill Cotton , envisaged a variety programme along the lines of America's Ed Sullivan Show.
The Initial run of shows all opened with Parkinson, somewhat self-consciously perched on a stool, cracking topical jokes, as well as featuring a resident singer, Marion Montgomery . It wasn't until the third series that the programme took on its now familiar format.
The Show quickly became a success with audience-pulling appearances by Morecambe and Wise, and guests like Orson Welles giving it great credibility.
John Lennon , Michael Caine and Elton John were among the earliest people to appear on The Show and Parkinson also featured some of the Music Hall stars he had seen in his Home Town of Barnsley, such as Tessie O'Shea and Sandy Powell .
" We had a duty in a sense, to preserve this part of our culture. We were in danger of letting it pass by and remain only in The Memory of people who had seen them. That was The Unexpected bonus of The Show . "
The Show conjured a host of memorable appearances - notably a monosyllabic Meg Ryan , the wisecracking Muhammad Ali , dubbed by Parkinson as his favourite interviewee, and an assault by Rod Hull 's alter ego Emu, which had The Host sprawling out of his chair.
Plain speakingIn 1983 he became one of the so-called " Famous Five" presenters who launched the new ITV breakfast franchise TV-am, where he presented the Sunday Morning programme. However he, together with other big names, eventually departed after a very public row with The Station 's management.
In 1985 he took the helm at Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs, following the death of its creator, Roy Plomley . It was reported that Plomley's widow was unhappy with The Parkinson style and he handed over to Sue Lawley after just three years. He also had a spell as a presenter on Radio 2 .
He continued to appear on television presenting, among other things, ITV's Give Us a Clue, and the Bbc One programme, Going For a Song.
In 1998 his Chat Show returned to Bbc One , although his style of questioning had become less probing.
In 2003 he fell out with The Corporation 's management who wanted to move his programme from its regular Saturday Night slot in favour of Match of The Day . Parkinson took his show to ITV where he stayed until Hanging Up his hat as a mainstream Tv Interviewer in 2007.
He remained the plain-speaking Yorkshire man, causing something of a storm in 2009 when he described the recently deceased reality TV star, Jade Goody , as " A Woman who came to represent All That 's paltry and wretched About Britain today".
And, in an interview with the Radio Times , he bemoaned what he saw as the declining state of British TV, saying he was Fed Up with The Rise of celebrities hosting shows, ridiculously titled documentaries and property programmes.
Parkinson was created a Knight Bachelor in the 2008 New Year 's Honours.
At The End of his final Parkinson show he made a poignant reference to his father Jack, who died in 1975 following a battle with lung disease pneumoconiosis - caused by long-term retention of dust in the lungs.
Jack Parkinson had slightly Mixed Feelings about his son's chosen career, his son later revealed.
" Father loved coming to The Show but he was never sure his son was doing a proper job. 'You've made a bob or two without breaking sweat,' he once told me. 'But, think on. It's not like playing for Yorkshire, is it?'"
Michael Parkinson agreed: " Of course, it wasn't. But, once or twice, it got pretty damned close. "
The presenter suffered his own health problems in later life. He was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2013, from which he recovered after an operation and radiotherapy. He was also plagued with a back condition for 11 years for which he underwent spinal surgery in 2017.
Parkinson couldn't quite give up his interviewer status and hosted a series on Sky Arts called Michael Parkinson : Masterclass from 2012 to 2014, featuring guests such as Jamie Cullum , Michael Morpurgo , Carlos Acosta and Lang Lang .
But with or without his own show, Parkinson remained a frequent face on the small screen as he himself became a popular guest on shows such as This Morning , Loose Women , The Graham Norton Show and Piers Morgan 's Life Stories .
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