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George Orson Welles was born May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a son of Richard Head Welles [13]: 26 [14] [a] and Beatrice Ives Welles (née Beatrice Lucy Ives). [14] [15]: 9 [b] He was named after one of his great-grandfathers, influential Kenosha attorney Orson S. Head, and his brother George Head.
Welles's alleged biological son Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who was born to actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, first met Welles when he was 15 and later worked on the 1960 stage play Chimes at Midnight. This was the only significant amount of time the two spent together and Lindsay-Hogg saw Welles only sporadically thereafter.
When Michael Lindsay-Hogg was 16, his mother reluctantly divulged that there had been pervasive rumours that his father was Orson Welles, and she denied them—but in such detail that he was left confused and skeptical. [2]: 15 [3] Fitzgerald evaded the subject for the rest of her life. [citation needed]
Marc McKerrow's biological mother, Rebecca Welles (Manning), secretly gave birth to a son on March 31, 1966, when she was 21. Orson Welles never knew about his grandson. Rita Hayworth arranged the adoption of her grandson and did not allow Rebecca to see or hold her son.
Native Son is a 1941 Broadway drama written by Paul Green and Richard Wright based on Wright's novel Native Son.It was produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman with Bern Bernard as associate producer and directed by Welles with scenic design by John Morcom.
Beatrice Giuditta Welles (also known as Beatrice Mori di Gerfalco Welles) [4] was born in Manhattan on November 13, 1955, to Orson Welles and his third wife, Paola Mori. [5] [6]: 313 A countess from an Italian noble family with antecedents in the Middle Ages, [3] Welles is the half-sister of Chris Welles Feder [7] and Rebecca Welles Manning (1944–2004), [8] from her father's previous two ...
Orson Welles at work on The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Orson Welles (1915–1985) was an American director, actor, writer, and producer who is best remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film.
Orson Welles at the Mercury Theatre (1938) This is a comprehensive listing of the theatre work of Orson Welles . There isn't one person, I suppose, in a million, who knows that I was ever in the theatre.