| Orson Welles | |
| Also known as: | |
| Race: | Human |
| Home Planet: | Earth |
| Home Era: | 20th century |
| Appearances: | BFA: Invaders from Mars |
| Actor: | David Benson |
Orson Welles (1915-1985) was an acclaimed and controversial film and radio actor, director and writer of the 20th Century. Welles rose to fame in 1938 when his radio production of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds sparked panic across America due to its realistic depiction of a radio broadcast covering an alien invasion. He later entered the film industry with the film Citizen Kane. Considered a maverick of the cinema, Welles continued to push the boundaries of film until his death in the 1980s, although relatively few of his productions ever reached completion. He supplemented his directing income by taking on acting roles and filming television commercials.
At the time of his War of the Worlds broadcast, Welles encountered the Doctor and shared an adventure involving a real invasion. (BFA: Invaders from Mars)
Orson Welles (1915-1985) was an Academy Award winning American actor, director, writer, and producer. He makes a cameo appearance in The Muppet Movie as Lew Lord, the head of World Wide Studios. In 1979, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and various Muppets appeared as guests on the pilot episode for a talk show hosted by Welles.
While filming his scenes in The Muppet Movie, Welles was enough of a Muppet fan to notice that the hat of one of the characters had changed color for the movie.[1] In a 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, Welles said that "Sesame Street is the greatest thing that ever happened to television." [2]
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915–October 10, 1985) was the voice of Unicron in The Transformers: The Movie. He was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin and in 1938 he convinced a bunch of rubes that Martians were invading the Earth with his War of the Worlds radio show. He also made some movie about some guy who wants a sled.
It wasn't until 1985 that Mr. Welles finally fulfilled his true destiny by playing the planet-gobbling world Unicron, although, sadly, Mr. Welles died before the movie was released in 1986.
| “ | You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen. | ” |
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—Orson Welles[1] |
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| “ | The irony of [Welles] playing a planet-sized eating machine wasn't lost on anyone. | ” |
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