
Charles, Prince of Wales, Richard Attenborough, Orson Welles.

Charles, Prince of Wales, Richard Attenborough, Orson Welles.
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Orson Welles and Fernando Rey at the 1973 San Sebastian Film Festival.
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As Jonathan Lute in I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname. Michael Winner. 1967.
For some reason this pic reminds me of what Welles said at his AFI tribute: “As a director, I pay myself out of my acting jobs. I use my own work to subsidize my work—in other words, I’m crazy.”
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It’s All True. Street scene in Rio: Welles at work on one of the restaged carnival scenes.
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Orson as “a politician trying to play it safe” in The Battle on the River Neretva. This photo appeared in the April 1971 issue of Filming and Filming, which also ran this item.
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Ladies and gentleman, by way of introduction, New feature. I have amassed so many pictures of Orson Welles that I have to get rid of them somehow.
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