by Simon Callow
Captain Perella, the Beast
Si Versailles M’Etait Conté
Benjamin Franklin
King Lear
King Lear
1954
Trouble in the Glen
Sanin Cejadory Mengues
1955
Three Cases of Murder
Lord Mountdrago
Napoléon
Hudson Lowe
1956
Moby Dick
Father Mapple
Out of Darkness
Dramatic narrator
Ford Star Jubilee
Oscar Jaffé
1957
Man in the Shadow
Virgil Renchler
1958
The Long, Hot Summer
Will Varner
The Vikings
Narrator
South Seas Adventure
Narrator
The Roots of Heaven
Cy Sedgewick
1959
High Journey
Narrator
Les Seigneurs de la forêt
Narrator
Compulsion
Jonathan Wilk
Ferry to Hong Kong
Captain Hart
1960
David and Goliath
King Saul
Crack in the Mirror
Hagolin, Lamerciere
Austerlitz
Robert Fulton
1961
La Fayette
Benjamin Franklin
King of Kings
Narrator
I Tartari
Burundai
1962
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
The Director
1963
The V.I.P.s
Max Buda
1964
The Finest Hours
Narrator
1965
A King’s Story
Narrator
La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo
Akerman, Marco’s Tutor
THE STAGE PRODUCTIONS
THE BLESSED AND THE DAMNED
A double bill by ORSON WELLES
Opening performance: Théâtre Édouard VII, Paris, 15 June, 1950
Production, design and costumes by ORSON WELLES
THE UNTHINKING LOBSTER
Cast in order of appearance:
Miss Prat
SUZANNE CLOUTIER
Roland Zitz
JAMIE SCHMITT
Jake Behoovian
ORSON WELLES
Lender Plaice
GEORGE LLOYD
Manny Burns
MARVIN FRANK
The Archduke
FRÉDÉRIC O’BRADY
Letitia Pottle
JENNIFER HOWARD
Hal Sprokett
LEE ZIMMER
Television assistants
ANDRE DAHL and HERBERT MACHIZ
The Archbishop
HILTON EDWARDS
The Archangel
HELENA HUGHES
The voice of Alexandra Sporcaccione
LUCIO ARDENZI
First servant
EDWINA HAZARD
Second servant
HELENE REMY
Third Servant
ASTRID DUBOIS
TIME RUNS
Based on the works of MILTON, DANTE and MARLOWE
Music by DUKE ELLINGTON
Cast in order of appearance:
The choir:
EARTHA KITT
ROSALIND MURRAY
TOMMIE MOORE
Doctor John Faustus
ORSON WELLES
Mephistopheles
HILTON EDWARDS
First man
LEE ZIMMER
A woman
JENNIFER HOWARD
Second man
JAMIE SCHMITT
Third man
MARVIN FRANK
Fourth man
HERBERT MACHIZ
AN EVENING WITH ORSON WELLES
Opening performance: Frankfurt, 7 August 1950
TIME RUNS
By ORSON WELLES, based on the works of MILTON, DANTE and MARLOWE
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Lighting by HILTON EDWARDS
Music by DUKE ELLINGTON
Cast:
The Girl
EARTHA KITT
The Man
MICHEÁL MACLIAMMÓIR
Dr John Faustus
ORSON WELLES
Onlookers: JANET WOLFE, LEE ZIMMER, SAMUEL MATLOWSKY
Magic performed by ORSON WELLES
AN EPISODE FROM THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
By OSCAR WILDE
Directed by HILTON EDWARDS
Mr Algernon Moncrieff
ORSON WELLES
Lane the Butler
LEE ZIMMER
Mr John Worthing
MICHEÁL MACLIAMMÓIR
Songs performed by EARTHA KITT
A SCENE FROM KING HENRY VI PART THREE
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Directed by HILTON EDWARDS
Henry VI
MICHEÁL MACLIAMMÓIR
Prison Guard
LEE ZIMMER
Richard, Duke of Gloucester
ORSON WELLES
OTHELLO
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
/> Opening Performance: St James Theatre, London, 18 October 1951
Production by ORSON WELLES
Music by FRANCESCO LAVAGNINO
Designed by MOTLEY
Stage Manager DIANA BODDINGTON
Cast in order of appearance:
Othello
ORSON WELLES
Desdemona
GUDRUN URE
Roderigo
BASIL LORD
Iago
PETER FINCH
Brabantio
KEITH PYOTT
Cassio
JOHN VAN EYSSEN
The Duke
AUBREY RICHARDS
Lodovico
EDWARD MULHARE
Emilia
MAXINE AUDLEY
Montano
MICHAEL WARRE
Bianca
DIANNE FOSTER
The Herald
AUBREY RICHARDS
MOBY DICK
By ORSON WELLES, adapted from Moby-Dick (novel) by HERMAN MELVILLE
Opening performance: Duke of York’s Theatre, London, 14 June 1955
Associate Producer WILLIAM CHAPPELL
Music Composed by ANTHONY COLLINS
Musical Effects by RICHARD JOHNSON and T BLADES
Stage Decorations by MARY OWEN
Cast in order of appearance:
A young actor/Ishmael
GORDON JACKSON
A young actress/Pip
JOAN PLOWRIGHT
A stage manager/flask
PETER SALLIS
An assistant stage manager/Bo’sun
JOHN GRAY
A second assistant stage manager/Tashtego/Captain of the Rachel
JOHN BOYD-BRENT
A stage hand with a harmonica/Portuguese sailor/Dagoo
JOSEPH CHELTON
Other stage hands
PHILIPPE PERROTET
HARRY CORDWELL
DAVID SAIRE
A middle-aged actor/Stubb
WENSLEY PITHEY
An experienced actor/Peleg/old Cornish sailor
JEFFERSON CLIFFORD
A serious actor/Starbuck
PATRICK MCGOOHAN
A very serious actor/Elijah/ship’s carpenter/old Bedford sailor
KENNETH WILLIAMS
An actor–manager/Father Mapple/Ahab
ORSON WELLES
KING LEAR
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Opening performance: New York City Center of Music and Drama, 12 January 1956
Production by ORSON WELLES
Costumes by ROBERT FLETCHER
Stage Settings by THEODORE COOPER
Electronic sound by OTTO LUENING and VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY
Music by MARC BLITZSTEIN
Cast:
King Lear
ORSON WELLES
King of France
ROBERT BLACKBURN
Duke of Burgundy
WALTER MATHEWS
Duke of Albany
SORRELL BOOKE
Duke of Cornwall
THAYER DAVID
Earl of Kent
ROY DEAN
Earl of Gloucester
LESTER RAWLINS
Edgar, son to Gloucester
ROBERT FLETCHER
Edmund, bastard son to Gloucester
JOHN COLICOS
Lear’s Fool
ALVIN EPSTEIN
Curan
TOM CLANCY
Oswald, Steward to Goneril
FRANCIS CARPENTER
Old Man, tenant to Gloucester
JACK ARONSON
Servant to Cornwall
ROBERT BURR
Doctor
WALTER MATHEWS
Captain to Edmund
ROBERT BURR
Gentleman to King Lear
JACK ARONSON
Goneril
GERALDINE FITZGERALD
Regan
SYLVIA SHORT
Cordelia
VIVECA LINDFORS
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
Opening performance: Grand Opera House, Belfast 24 February, 1960
Opening performance: Gaiety Theatre Dublin, 29 February 1960
Staged by HILTON EDWARDS
Cast in order of appearance:
Chorus
RORY MACDERMOT
King
REGINALD JARMAN
Northumberland
TERENCE GREENIDGE
Worcester
AUBREY MORRIS
Hotspur
ALEXIS KANNER
Westmoreland
STUART NICHOL
Lancaster
PETER BARTLETT
Gower
ALAN MASON
Page to Gower
JOHN SOUTHARN
Prince Hal
KEITH BAXTER
Falstaff
ORSON WELLES
Poins
PATRICK BEDFORD
Bardolph
LEONARD FENTON
Nym
HENRY WOOLF
Peto
PETER BARTLETT
Francis, a Drawer
LEE HARRIS
Mistress
THELMA RUBY
Sherriff Fang
RORY MACDERMOT
Snare
WILLIAM STYLES
Lord Chief Justice
TERENCE GREENIDGE
Attendant to Lord Chief Justice
KEITH MARSH
Doll Tearsheet
SHIRLEY CAMERON
Pistol
RORY MACDERMOT
Justice Shallow
KEITH MARSH
Justice Silence
AUBREY MORRIS
Mouldy
LEONARD FENTON
Shadow
LEE HARRIS
Wart
CHARLES ARMSTRONG
Feeble
ALAN MASON
Bullcalf
STUART NICHOL
