Orson

American  

[awr-suhn] / ˈɔr sən /

noun

1. a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”

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Example Sentences

Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and many others made incredible films that directly contradicted the edicts of studio bosses at the behest of the government.

From Salon

He was given charge of BBC2's arts programme Arena where he took a left-field approach to subjects ranging from Orson Welles to the Ford Cortina.

From BBC

Orson Welles didn’t shun technology in “Citizen Kane”; he pioneered deep-focus cinematography, added ceilings to sets for unprecedented angles, manipulated lighting for psychological texture, and cut time with “lightning mixes” that astonished audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal

The film revolutionized the structure and grammar of modern cinema as surely as Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” had a decade earlier, and as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” would a decade later.

From The Wall Street Journal

Linklater, the man behind “School of Rock” and “Me and Orson Welles,” has made several films about creativity.

From Los Angeles Times