Labels:text | man | human face | person | human beard OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Welles, Orson Orson Welles Orson Welles was a man of prodigious talents and appetites. Actor, screenwriter, painter, magician, and gourmand, he excelled at just about everything - except finding the money he needed to produce his films. Welles's father was a successful inventor and raconteur, his mother a concert musician. A notorious child prodigy, he reputedly staged childhood adaptations of Shakespeare in his playroom. Shortly after graduating from high school, he traveled to Dublin and began his stage career as an actor with the Gate Theatre in 1931. Back in the U.S ., his controversial radio broadcast of H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" (1938) induced widespread panic. His first film, "Citizen Kane" (1941), which he directed, starred in, and co-wrote, is Orson Welles, regarded by many as the greatest U.S. film of U.S. actor and director, all time. Welles never regained the financial 1915-85 independence he enjoyed while working on "Citizen Kane" - later movies were taken away and reout by hasty producers. When he died in 1985, he left behind many uncompleted, personally financed films. CHRONOLOGY
