Orson Welles
Someone to Love (1987)
Someone to Love is a 1987 comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. It was Orson Welles' final live action film appearance, released two years after his death but produced before his voice-over in The Transformers: The Movie, his final film performance.
Starring: Michael Bell•Dolores del Río•Claudette Colbert
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated science fiction action film based on the Transformers television series. It was released in North America on August 8, 1986, and in the United Kingdom on December 12, 1986. It was co-produced and directed by Nelson Shin, who also produced the television series. The screenplay was written by Ron Friedma...
Starring: Elliott Gould•Michael Bell•George Brent•Charles Boyer•Narrated by•Rita Hayworth•Joan Fontaine•David Niven•Akim Tamiroff•Tyrone Power
Butterfly (1982)
Butterfly is a 1982 American independent crime drama film co-written and directed by Matt Cimber, based on the 1947 novel The Butterfly by James M. Cain. The starring cast includes Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Lois Nettleton, Ed McMahon, James Franciscus, Edward Albert, and Orson Welles. The original music score was composed by Ennio Morricone. The fil...
Starring: Michael Bell•Milton Berle•Bob Hope•Joseph Cotten•Edgar Bergen•Robert Stack
History of the World: Part I (1981)
History of the World, Part I is a 1981 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks. Brooks also stars in the film, playing five roles: Moses, Comicus the stand-up philosopher, Tomás de Torquemada, King Louis XVI, and Jacques, le garçon de pisse. The large ensemble cast also features Sid Caesar, Shecky Greene, Gregory Hines, C...
Starring: Michael Bell•Jeanette Nolan•Orson Welles•Everett Sloane•Charlton Heston•Agnes Moorehead•Walter Slezak•Angela Lansbury•June Lockhart•Nancy Guild
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981)
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow is a 1981 documentary-style movie about the predictions of French astrologer and physician Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus).
Starring: Michael Bell
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Muppet Movie is a musical road comedy film directed by James Frawley, produced by Jim Henson, and the first theatrical film featuring the Muppets. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, the film was written by The Muppet Show writers Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns. Produced between the first and second half of The Muppet S...
Starring: Dean Stockwell•Kirk Douglas•Alida Valli•Michael Bell•Jeanette Nolan•Dan O'Herlihy•Barbara Lawrence•Jeff Chandler•Charlton Heston•Simone Signoret
Bugs Bunny: Superstar (1975)
Bugs Bunny: Superstar is a 1975 Looney Tunes documentary film narrated by Orson Welles and produced and directed by Larry Jackson. It was the first documentary to examine the history of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes with its cartoon characters.
Starring: Leslie Caron•Michael Bell
F for Fake (1974)
F for Fake is a 1973 docudrama film co-written, directed by, and starring Orson Welles who worked on the film alongside François Reichenbach, Oja Kodar, and Gary Graver. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a meandering investigati...
Starring: Robert Coote•Michael Bell
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
Get to Know Your Rabbit is a 1972 American comedy film written by Jordan Crittenden and directed by Brian De Palma.
Starring: Michael Bell•Cloris Leachman•Joanne Woodward
Necromancy (1972)
Necromancy is a 1972 American supernatural horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, and Lee Purcell. The plot follows an enigmatic cult leader in a small California town who attempts to harness the powers of a local woman to resurrect his dead son.
Starring: Michael Bell•Lee Remick•Inger Stevens
Treasure Island (1972)
Treasure Island is a 1972 adventure film, based on the 1883 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film stars Orson Welles as Long John Silver, Kim Burfield as Jim Hawkins, Walter Slezak as Squire Trelawney, Rik Battaglia as Captain Smollett, and Ángel del Pozo as Doctor Livesey.
Starring: Diane Varsi•Michael Bell•Anthony Franciosa
A Safe Place (1971)
A Safe Place is a 1971 American drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom and starring Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, and Jack Nicholson.
Starring: Michael Bell•Jack Nicholson•Juliette Gréco
Catch-22 (1970)
Catch-22 is a 1970 American satirical black comedy war film adapted from the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. In creating a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel set at a fictional Mediterranean base during World War II, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry worked on th...
Starring: Michael Bell•Yves Montand•Paula Prentiss•Leo McKern•Peter Sellers•Ursula Andress•Lois Nettleton•Sid Caesar•Wendy Hiller•Pamela Franklin
House of Cards (1969)
House of Cards is a 1968 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, and Orson Welles. Filmed in France and Italy, it marked the third time that Peppard and Guillermin worked together then PJ.
Starring: Michael Bell•Katharine Ross•Woody Allen
House of Cards (1968)
House of Cards is a 1968 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, and Orson Welles. Filmed in France and Italy, it marked the third time that Peppard and Guillermin worked together then PJ.
Starring: Michael Bell•Katharine Ross•Woody Allen
Casino Royale (1967)
Casino Royale is a 1967 spy parody film originally distributed by Columbia Pictures featuring an ensemble cast. It is loosely based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, the first novel to feature the character James Bond. The film stars David Niven as the "original" Bond, Sir James Bond 007. Forced out of retirement to investigate the...
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo•Michael Bell•Daliah Lavi•Richard Pryor•Jon Voight•Martin Sheen•Shecky Greene
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 epic black-and-white war film about the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance and the Free French Forces during World War II. A French-American co-production, it was directed by French filmmaker René Clément, with a screenplay by Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Claud...
Starring: Bob Newhart•Elliott Gould•Dom DeLuise•Michael Bell•Lee Purcell•Sally Kellerman•Buck Henry•Bob Balaban•Stacy Keach•Tom Smothers
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British historical drama film directed and produced by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Robert Bolt from his play of the same name. It depicts the final years of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England who refused both to sign a letter asking Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII of England's marriage t...
Starring: Michael Bell•Carol Kane•Ed McMahon•Mel Brooks
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Crack in the Mirror is a 1960 drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The three principal actors, Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, and Bradford Dillman, play dual roles in two interconnected stories as the participants in two love triangles.
Starring: Michael Bell•Eric Idle•Ron Carey
Compulsion (1959)
Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. It was the first film produced by Richard D. Zanuck.
Starring: Michael Bell•Peter Cullen•Judd Nelson•Eric Idle
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 American drama film starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles. It was directed by Martin Ritt, with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., based in part on three works by William Faulkner: the 1931 novella "Spotted Horses", the 1939 short story "Barn Burning" and the 194...
Starring: Michael Bell•Chris Latta•Frank Welker•Neil Ross•Ben Alexander•Dolores del Río
Man in the Shadow (1958)
Man in the Shadow is a 1957 American CinemaScope crime Western film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller and Ben Alexander.
Starring: Claudette Colbert•Michael Bell•Loretta Young•Edward G. Robinson•George Brent
Touch of Evil (1958)
Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel Badge of Evil (1956). The cast included Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff and Marlene Dietrich.
Starring: Michael Bell•Rita Hayworth•Joan Fontaine
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Mr. Arkadin, known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French-Spanish-Swiss coproduction film, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid and Madrid. Filming took place throughout Europe in 1954, and scenes shot outside Spain include locations in London, Munich, Paris, ...
Starring: Akim Tamiroff•Michael Bell
Othello (1952)
Othello is a 1951 tragedy film directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also adapted the Shakespearean play and played the title role. Recipient of the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival, the film was distributed by United Artists when it was released in the United States in 1955. Othello was filmed on l...
Starring: Michael Bell•Tyrone Power
The Black Rose (1950)
The Black Rose is a 1950 American-British adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles.
Starring: Agnes Moorehead•Michael Bell
The Third Man (1950)
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that Lime has died...
Starring: Robert Coote•Michael Bell•Everett Sloane
Black Magic (1949)
Black Magic is a 1949 film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel Joseph Balsamo. It was directed by Gregory Ratoff. Set in the 18th century, the film stars Orson Welles in the lead role as Joseph Balsamo, a hypnotist, magician, and charlatan who also goes by the alias of Count Cagliostro, and Nancy Guild as Lorenza/Marie Antoinette. Akim Tamiroff h...
Starring: Michael Bell•Paul Stewart
Prince of Foxes (1949)
Prince of Foxes is a 1949 film adapted from Samuel Shellabarger's novel Prince of Foxes. The movie starred Tyrone Power as Orsini and Orson Welles as Cesare Borgia. It was nominated for two Oscars during the 22nd Academy Awards: Best Black and White Cinematography and Best Costume Design, Black and White.
Starring: Agnes Moorehead•Michael Bell
Macbeth (1948)
Macbeth is a 1948 American historical drama directed by Orson Welles. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, it tells the story of the Scottish general who becomes the King of Scotland through treachery and murder. The film stars Welles in the lead role and Jeanette Nolan as Lady Macbeth.
Starring: Michael Bell•Nancy Guild•Alida Valli
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir directed by Orson Welles (uncredited) and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.
Starring: Janet Leigh•Michael Bell
The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Welles. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, it centers on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It is the first Holly...
Starring: Jeanette Nolan•Dan O'Herlihy•Michael Bell
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
Tomorrow Is Forever is a 1946 black-and-white romance film directed by Irving Pichel, and starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent. It was also the film debut of Richard Long and Natalie Wood. It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and was based upon the 1943 serialized novel of the same name by Gwen Bristow.
Starring: Barbara Lawrence•Jeff Chandler•Michael Bell
Jane Eyre (1943)
Jane Eyre is a 1943 American film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by the uncredited Kenneth Macgowan and Orson Welles; Welles also stars in the film as Edward Rochester, with Joan Fontaine playing the title character.
Starring: Charlton Heston•Michael Bell
Journey into Fear (1943)
Journey into Fear is a 1943 American spy film directed by Norman Foster, based on the 1940 Eric Ambler novel of the same name. The film broadly follows the plot of the book, but the protagonist was changed to an American engineer. The RKO Pictures release stars Joseph Cotten, who also wrote the screenplay with Orson Welles. The Mercury Production w...
Starring: Robert Coote•Robert Coote•Michael Bell
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. For 50 consecutive years, it stood at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight &...
Starring: Robert Coote•Colleen Miller•Michael Bell•Lee Remick•Anthony Franciosa•Agnes Moorehead