Actor, Radio Personality, Film Director (6-May-1915 — 10-Oct-1985)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Michael A. Anderegg. Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture. Columbia University Press. 1999. 213pp.

Andre Bazin. Translated by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Orson Welles: A Critical View. Acrobat Books. 1991. 138pp.

Morris Beja (editor). Perspectives on Orson Welles. G. K. Hall. 1995. 342pp.

Catherine L. Benamou. It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey. University of California Press. 2007. 400pp.

Maurice Bessy. Orson Welles. Crown. 1971. 195pp.

Frank Brady. Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1989.

Simon Callow. Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu. New York: Viking Press. 1995.

Simon Callow. Orson Welles: Volume I: Hello Americans. Viking. 1996. 656pp. Also titled, The Road to Xanadu.

Peter Conrad. Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life. Faber & Faber. 2005. 368pp.

Peter Cowie. A Ribbon of Dreams: The Cinema of Orson Welles. A. S. Barnes. 1973. 262pp.

Anthony Davies. Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1995. 233pp.

Mark W. Estrin (editor). Orson Welles: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. 2002. 228pp.

Richard France. The Theatre of Orson Welles. Bucknell University Press. 1977. 212pp.

Robert Garis. The Films of Orson Welles. Cambridge University Press. 2004. 184pp.

Ronald Gottesman. Focus on Orson Welles. Prentice-Hall. 1976. 218pp.

Paul Heyer. The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952. Rowman & Littlefield. 2005. 255pp.

Clinton Heylin. Despite the System: Orson Welles vs the Hollywood Studios. Canongate Books. 2006. 400pp.

Charles Higham. Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1985. 373pp.

Charles Higham. The Films of Orson Welles. University of California Press. 1970. 210pp.

James Howard. The Complete Films of Orson Welles. Carol Publishing Group. 1991. 254pp.

Barbara Leaming. Orson Welles: A Biography. New York: Viking. 1985.

Charles Maland. American Visions: The Films of Chaplin, Ford, Capra, and Welles, 1936-1941. New York: Arno Press. 1977.

Joseph McBride. Orson Welles. Da Capo Press. 1996. 243pp.

James Naremore. The Magic World of Orson Welles. New York: Oxford University Press. 1978. Reissued by Southern Methodist University Press, 1989.

Peter Noble. The Fabulous Orson Welles. Hutchinson. 1956. 276pp.

Randy Loren Rasmussen. Orson Welles: Six Films Analyzed, Scene by Scene. McFarland. 2006. 268pp.

Jonathan Rosenbaum. Discovering Orson Welles. University of California Press. 2007. 336pp.

John Russell Taylor. Orson Welles. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. 1986.

Claudia Thieme. F for Fake: And the Growth in Complexity of Orson Welles' Documentary Form. Peter Lang. 1997. 174pp.

David Thomson. Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles. Westminister, MD: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. 1996. 464pp.

Peter Prescott Tonguette. Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews with His Actors, Editors, Cinematographers and Magicians. McFarland. 2007. 206pp.

John Evangelist Walsh. Walking Shadows: Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst, and Citizen Kane. University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press. 2004. 301pp.

Orson Welles; Peter Bogdanovich; Jonathan Rosenbaum (editor). This Is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins. 1992. Interviews of Welles by Bogdanovich.

Bret Wood. Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press. 1990. 364pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

6. Wikipedia [link]

7. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

8. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.1196)

9. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.812)

10. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.746)

11. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1543)

12. Webster's American Biographies (p.1113)

13. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.291)

14. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.1484)

15. Cassell Companion to Cinema (p.589)

16. Quinlan's Illustrated Registry of Film Stars (p.473)

17. Chambers Film and TV Handbook (p.358)

18. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.570)

19. Celebrity Register 4th Issue (p.536)

20. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood (pp.455-56)

21. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (pp.924-26)

22. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.1104)

23. The Hollywood.com Guide to Film Directors (pp.921-25)

24. The St. James Encyclopedia of Film Directors (pp.547-54)

25. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.782)

26. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.510)

27. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.5, p.108)

28. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.340)

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