by Simon Callow
Davy
PATRICK BEDFORD
Guard to Worcester
ALAN MASON
RHINOCEROS
By EUGÈNE IONESCO, translated by DEREK PROUSE
Staged and designed by ORSON WELLES
Cast in order of appearance:
Bessie, a barmaid
MONICA EVANS
Berenger
LAURENCE OLIVIER
John
DUNCAN MACRAE
A grocer
HENRY WOOLF
The grocer’s wife
MARGERY CALDICOTT
A lady with a cat
HAZEL HUGHES
A logician
GEOFFREY DUNN
An old gentleman
MICHAEL BATES
A publican
WILL STAMPE
Daisy
JOAN PLOWRIGHT
Duddard
ALAN WEBB
Mr Butterfly
MILES MALLESON
Bottard
PETER SALLIS
Mrs Beef
GLADYS HENSON
A fireman
PHILIP ANTHONY
THE FILMS
OTHELLO (1952)
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Writing credits (in alphabetical order) JEAN SACHA (uncredited), WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (play), ORSON WELLES (uncredited)
Produced by JULIEN DERODE (associate producer), WALTER BEDONE (producer), PATRICE DALI (producer), ROCCO FACCHINI (producer), GIORGIO PAPI (producer), ORSON WELLES (producer)
Music by ALBERTO BARBERIS and FRANCESCO LAVAGNINO
Cast in order of credits:
Iago
MICHEÁL MACLIAMMÓIR
Roderigo
ROBERT COOTE
Othello
ORSON WELLES
Desdemona
SUZANNE CLOUTIER
Brabantio
HILTON EDWARDS
Lodovico
NICHOLAS BRUCE
Cassio
MICHAEL LAURENCE
Emilia
FAY COMPTON
Bianca
DORIS DOWLING
Desdemona (voice) (uncredited)
GUDRUN URE
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Written by ORSON WELLES
Produced by ALBERT ZUGSMITH
Music by HENRY MANCINI
Cast:
Mike Vargas
CHARLTON HESTON
Susan Vargas
JANET LEIGH
Police Captain Hank Quinlan
ORSON WELLES
Police Sergeant Pete Menzies
JOSEPH CALLEIA
‘Uncle’ Joe Grandi
AKIM TAMIROFF
Marcia Linnekar
JOANNA MOORE
District Attorney Adair
RAY COLLINS
Mirador Motel Night Manager
DENNIS WEAVER
Pancho
VALENTIN DE VARGAS
Al Schwartz
MORT MILLS
Manelo Sanchez
VICTOR MILLAN
Risto
LALO RIOS
Pretty Boy
MICHAEL SARGENT
Blaine
PHIL HARVEY
Zita
JOI LANSING
Chief Gould
HARRY SHANNON
Tana
MARLENE DIETRICH
Strip-Club Owner
ZSA ZSA GABOR
MR ARKADIN (1955)
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Written by ORSON WELLES (story and screenplay)
Produced by LOUIS DOLIVET and ORSON WELLES
Music by PAUL MISRAKI
Cast:
Gregory Arkadin
ORSON WELLES
Burgomil Trebitsch
MICHAEL REDGRAVE
Mily
PATRICIA MEDINA
Jakob Zouk
AKIM TAMIROFF
The Professor
MISCHA AUER
Raina Arkadin
PAOLA MORI
Sophie
KATINA PAXINOU
Bracco
GRÉGOIRE ASLAN
Thaddeus
PETER VAN EYCK
Baroness Nagel
SUZANNE FLON
Guy Van Stratten
ROBERT ARDEN
Marquis of Rutleigh
JACK WATLING
Oscar
FRÉDÉRIC O’BRADY
Woman in apartment
TAMARA SHAYNE
Secretary
TERENCE LONGDON
Parisian woman with bread
ANNABEL BUFFET
First Policeman – Munich
GERT FRÖBE
Second Policeman – Munich
EDUARD LINKERS
General Martinez
MANUEL REQUENA
THE TRIAL (1962)
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Screenplay written by ORSON WELLES based on the novel by FRANZ KAFKA
Produced by ROBERT FLORAT (associate producer), ALEXANDER SALKIND (producer) and MICHAEL SALKIND (producer)
Music by JEAN LEDRUT
Cast:
Josef K.
ANTHONY PERKINS
Inspector A
ARNOLDO FOÀ
Second Assistant Inspector
JESS HAHN
First Assistant Inspector
BILLY KEARNS
Mrs Grubach
MADELEINE ROBINSON
Marika Burstner
JEANNE MOREAU
Deputy Manager
MAURICE TEYNAC
Irmie
NAYDRA SHORE
Miss Pittl
SUZANNE FLON
Policeman
RAOUL DELFOSSE
Policeman
JEAN-CLAUDE RÉMOLEUX
Examining Magistrate
MAX BUCHSBAUM
Man in leather
CARL STUDER
Uncle Max
MAX HAUFLER
Leni
ROMY SCHNEIDER
Chief Clerk of the Law Court
FERNAND LEDOUX
Bloch
AKIM TAMIROFF
Hilda
ELSA MARTINELLI
Bert the law student
THOMAS HOLTZMANN
Courtroom guard
WOLFGANG REICHMANN
Titorelli
WILLIAM CHAPPELL
Priest
MICHAEL LONSDALE
Albert Hastler – The Advocate/Narrator
ORSON WELLES
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965)
Produced by ÁNGEL ESCOLANO (producer), EMILIANO PIEDRA (producer), HARRY SALTZMAN (producer) and ALESSANDRO TASCO DI CUTÒ (executive producer)
Music by FRANCESCO LAVAGNINO
Cast:
Falstaff
ORSON WELLES
Doll Tearsheet
JEANNE MOREAU
Mistress Quickly
MARGARET RUTHERFORD
Henry IV
JOHN GIELGUD
Kate Percy
MARINA VLADY
Mr Silence
WALTER CHIARI
Pistol
MICHAEL ALDRIDGE
Ned Poins
TONY BECKLEY
Prince John
JEREMY ROWE
Shallow
ALAN WEBB
Worcester
FERNANDO REY
Prince Hal
KEITH BAXTER
Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy
NORMAN RODWAY
Northumberland
JOSÉ NIETO
Westmoreland
ANDREW FAULDS
Bardolph
PATRICK BEDFORD
Falstaff’s Page
BEATRICE WELLES
Narrator (voice)
RALPH RICHARDSON
TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS
ORSON WELLES’S SKETCHBOOK
Transmitted April–June 1955
Directed by HUW WHELDON
Produced by HUW WHELDON
Series film editing by HAZEL WILKINSON (3 episodes) and WILLIAM MORTON (2 episodes)
Cameraman EDWARD LLOYD
AROUND THE WORLD WITH ORSON WELLES
Transmitted September–December 1955
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Written by ORSON WELLES
Produced by LOUIS DOLIVET (7 episodes), ROLAND GILLETT (2 episodes) and JOHN JONES (2 episodes)
Cinematography by ALAIN POL
Sound department JACQUES CARRÈRE
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Transmitted 16 September 1958
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Screenplay written by ORSON WELLES, based on the story ‘Youth From Vienna’ by JOHN COLLIER
Produced by DESI ARNAZ (executive producer) and ORSON WELLES (producer)
Cinematography by SIDNEY HICKOX
Cast:
Journalist
MARJORIE BENNETT
Journalist
MADGE BLAKE
Albert Morgan
BILLY HOUSE
Alan Brody
RICK JASON
Stella Morgan
NANCY KULP
Carolyn Coates
JOI LANSING
Humphrey Baxter
DAN TOBIN
Host/narrator
ORSON WELLES
PORTRAIT OF GINA (1958)
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Written by ORSON WELLES
Produced by LEONARD H. GOLDENSON
Cast in order of credits:
ORSON WELLES
GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
VITTORIO DE SICA
ANNA GRUBER
PAOLA MORI
Nella Terra di Don Chisciotte (In the Land of Don Quixote) (1964)
Shown on RAI TV
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Written by ORSON WELLES
Produced by ALESSANDRO TASCO DI CUTÒ
Music by JUAN SERRANO
NOTES
CHAPTER 1
1. Chaplin, 22nd November 1947, quoted in Alberto Anile, Orson Welles in Italy. Indiana University Press, 2013.
2. Richard Wilson, letter to Orson Welles, 24th March 1948, Lilly Library OrsonWelles Archive.
3. Richard Wilson letter to Orson Welles, 8th March 1948, Lilly Library Orson Welles Archive.
4. Anile, Orson Welles in Italy.
5. Emanuele Rocco, ‘Il Pranzo della Pace’, Tempo, 20–27 December 1947, quoted in Anile, Orson Welles in Italy.
6. James Naremore, ‘The Trial: Orson Welles vs. the FBI’, Film Comment, 27, No. 1, January–February 1991.
7. Frank Brady, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles. Scribner, 1989.
8. Richard Fleischer, Just Tell Me When to Cry: A Memoir. Carroll and Graf, 1993.
9. Samuel Blumenfeld, L’Homme Qui Voulait Être Prince: Les Vies Imaginaires de Michal Waszynski. Grasset, 2006.
10. Bob Breen, telegram to Orson Welles, 29th May 1947.
11. Edinburgh Evening Despatch, 26th May 1948.
12. Alessandro Tasca di Cutò, A Prince in America. Sellerio, 2004.
13. Lea Padovani, interviewer unknown, n.d., Lilly Library Orson Welles Archive.
14. Harriet White Medin, ‘Othello, Desdemona and Me’, Video Watchdog, 23, May–June 1994.
15. Rita Kohler, Fragments on Life with Orson Welles, 1947–1949 (unpublished). Courtesy of Ann Percival.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Th
e director of the film, Henry King, had been informed that Welles didn’t start work until midday, and then worked through the night. ‘I said, if an actor is going to work with me in a picture, he’s going to start at 9.00 or 8.00 . . . if he has a day off, I’ll give it to him.’ Welles surprised King by turning up every day at work, in full costume and make-up. Quoted in Henry King: Director – From Silents to ’Scope Directors, Guild of America, 1996.
19. Quoted in Anile, Orson Welles in Italy.
20. Ibid.
21. Daily Variety, 8th September 1948.
22. Kohler, Fragments on Life with Orson Welles.
23. Ibid.
24. Sir Alexander Korda, letter to David Selznick, 23rd September 1948, quoted in Charles Drazin, In Search of the Third Man. Methuen, 1999.
25. Graham Greene, The Third Man. Viking, 1950.
26. Guy Hamilton, conversation with the author, 2009.
