By Steve Pond
Over the years, Orson Welles has been portrayed on film and on TV by Vincent D’Onfrio, Live Schreiber, Danny Huston, Carsten Hayes and more than a dozen more actors, all of whom tried to embody the enormous, larger-than-life actor, filmmaker and mercurial genius responsible for “Citizen Kane,” the “War of the Worlds” radio panic, the groundbreaking Mercury Theater, and those regrettable Paul Masson wine commercials, among his other accomplishments.
Some of the actors have fallen short, some have been terrific, and some have played it for laughs.
B...
Over the years, Orson Welles has been portrayed on film and on TV by Vincent D’Onfrio, Live Schreiber, Danny Huston, Carsten Hayes and more than a dozen more actors, all of whom tried to embody the enormous, larger-than-life actor, filmmaker and mercurial genius responsible for “Citizen Kane,” the “War of the Worlds” radio panic, the groundbreaking Mercury Theater, and those regrettable Paul Masson wine commercials, among his other accomplishments.
Some of the actors have fallen short, some have been terrific, and some have played it for laughs.
B...
- 11/16/2009
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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