Watch remastered ‘King Lear’ starring Orson Welles
A handsomely remastered early television performance starring Orson Welles surfaced online this week and is every inch a king.
Orson Welles and his unrealized ‘King Lear’
A film adaptation of King Lear, Shakespeare’s tale of old age and mortality, was one of the last projects conceived by Orson Welles.
Tackling ‘King Lear’ by Orson Welles
An essay by Orson Welles, published before his final New York stage production in 1956.
Natasha Parry, co-starred with Orson Welles in ‘King Lear,’ dead at 84
She was the wife of director Peter Brook.
Paley Center in New York unveils its ‘Orson Welles at 100: On Television’ showings for February 2015
The event run Feb. 7-8 and Feb. 14-15.
ORSON WELLES is “enourmosly impressive” in the Peter Brook production of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR now out on DVD
The Archive of American Television in partnership with E1 Entertainment has just released Orson Welles 1953 Television debut as King Lear in a deluxe DVD package. It is highly recommended, since although this historic TV show is still mastered from a kinescope copy, it looks far better than the blurry VHS copies that have long […]
ORSON WELLES hit single: I Know What it is to be Young…
Here is a link where you can hear what is probably Orson Welles only single, which was obviously never a hit, at least on Billboard’s top 200, but all the same it was issued as a CD single, which in my book, is enough to call it a hit for Welles. Hearing it for the […]