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Othello (also known as The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice) is a 1951 tragedy directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also adapted the Shakespearean play and played the title role. Recipient of the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (precursory name for the Palme d'Or [ 3 ] ) at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival , the film was ...
In 1951, Welles had completed principal photography, but was still trying to raise money to finish editing the film. He was thus delighted to receive an offer from Laurence Olivier, then operating the St James's Theatre, to come and perform Othello on the London stage. Olivier's offer was not met with universal approval.
1951 Half Angel: John Raymond Jr. [3] 1951 Peking Express: Michael Bachlin [3] 1951 Othello: Venetian senator Uncredited [3] 1951 The Man with a Cloak: Dupin [3] 1952 The Wild Heart: Narrator [3] 1952 Untamed Frontier: Kirk Denbow [3] 1952 The Steel Trap: James Osborne [3] 1953 Niagara: George Loomis [3] 1953 Egypt by Three: Narrator 1953 A ...
The Venice International Film Festival will dedicate its pre-opening events on September 1 toOrson Welles, to mark the centennial of his birth. His Venetian films will find new life at the ...
He then directed and starred in the film-noir The Lady from Shanghai (1947), appearing opposite his estranged wife Rita Hayworth. [8] His 1951 film Othello won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film festival. [9] In 1958, Universal-International released the Welles-directed Touch of Evil, in which he also starred alongside Charlton Heston and Janet ...
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Othello is a 1965 film based on the National Theatre Company's staging of Shakespeare's Othello (1964-1966) staged by John Dexter.Directed by Stuart Burge, the film stars Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, and Frank Finlay, who all received Oscar nominations, and provided film debuts for both Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon.
Micheál Mac Liammóir, who worked with the 16-year-old Welles on the stage in Dublin and later played Iago in his film Othello (1951), wrote that "Orson's courage, like everything else about him, imagination, egotism, generosity, ruthlessness, forbearance, impatience, sensitivity, grossness and vision is magnificently out of proportion."