Welles

[welz]

noun

1. (George) Orson, 1915–85, U.S. actor, director, and producer.

2. Gideon, 1802–78, U.S. journalist, legislator, and government official: Secretary of the Navy 1861–69.

3. Sumner, 1892–1961, U.S. diplomat and government official.

Welles

/ wɛlz /

noun

1. ( George ) Orson (ˈɔːs ^ə n). 1915–85, US film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. His Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) are regarded as film classics

Example Sentences

She featured in a television documentary narrated by Orson Welles, which saw her playing and wrestling with baby chimps.

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“He plays himself, shedding even the persona he adopted for TV talk shows,” Jaglom told The Times of Welles’ acting style in the film.

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He pauses, considering, “I think it was Orson Welles who said, ‘I’m the bird.

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In a career that now encompasses 22 features, director Richard Linklater has tackled myriad subjects and worlds: high school, Orson Welles, weirdos, lovers, ballplayers, boyhood.

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Not unlike Orson Welles, another American filmmaker who experienced unexpectedly enormous success early in his career who turned increasingly experimental as a filmmaker later in life, Coppola became fascinated with new possibilities for movies.

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