أورسن ويلز .... يتيم الام في سن التاسعة ويتيم الاب في سن الخامسة عشرة وانفصلت امه عن والده السكير وهو في سن الرابعة ووضع اخاه في مستشفى للأمراض العقلية وماتت اخته وقامت اسره بتبنيه ورعايته

وهو صاحب مقولة " يولد الإنسان وحيدا. ويعيش وحيدا. ويموت وحيدا. ولكن بالحب والصداقة يخلق الوهم لحظة بأنه ليس وحيدا". كما يقول د. زياد الحكيم

أورسن ويلز بعدسة كارل فون فختن
جورج أورسن ويلز (بالإنجليزية George Orson Welles) (‏6 مايو 1915 - 10 أكتوبر 1985) المعروف بأورسن ويلز كان مخرج أفلام ومؤلف وممثل ومنتج أمريكي عمل في مجال السينما والمسرح والتلفزيون والراديو.
- امتاز بإنتاجاته الدرامية المبتكرة وبصوته المميز وشخصيته.
- يعتبر ويلز أحد أهم فناني الدراما في القرن العشرين.
- حاز ويلز على شهرة لإخراجه وتقديمه تمثيلية إذاعية مقتبسة عن رواية ه.ج. ويلز حرب العوالم التي أدت، بسبب إذاعتها بأسلوب التقرير الإخباري، إلى إثارة الهلع بين الناس لاعتقادهم بحدوث غزو كائنات فضائية للعالم.
- أفلامه المبكرة Citizen Kane وThe Magnificent Ambersons يعتبران من أهم الأفلام في تاريخ السينما.
- العديد من أفلامه الأخرى وخاصة Touch of Evilو Chimes at Midnight يعتبرها العديدون تحفاً سينمائية.
- تم اختياره عام 2002 أعظم مخرج سينمائي في التاريخ في مسح نظمته مؤسسة الأفلام البريطانية.

(May 6, 1915*– October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar and the debut of the Mercury Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), one of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films.
After directing a number of high-profile productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated,[2] they rocketed Welles to notoriety.
His first film was Citizen Kane (1941), which he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in as Charles Foster Kane. Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. While he struggled for creative control in the face of studios, his films were heavily edited and others remained unreleased. His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur."[3] Welles followed up Citizen Kane with critically acclaimed films, including The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942, and Touch of Evil in 1958.
In 2002, Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls among directors and critics,[4][5] and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time.[6] Well known for his baritone voice,[7] Welles was a well-regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.

Welles was born May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, son of Richard Hodgdon Head Welles (b. 1873, Missouri, d. December 28, 1930, Chicago, Illinois) and Beatrice (née Ives; b. 1882 or 1883, Springfield, Illinois, d. May 10, 1924, Chicago).[8] He was raised Roman Catholic.[9] Despite his parents' affluence, Welles encountered hardship in childhood. His parents separated and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father, who made a fortune as the inventor of a popular bicycle lamp,[10] became an alcoholic and stopped working. Welles's mother, a concert pianist, played during lectures by Dudley Crafts Watson at the Chicago Art Institute to support her son and herself (the oldest Welles boy, "Dickie", was institutionalized at an early age because he had learning difficulties). Beatrice died of hepatitis in a Chicago hospital on[11] May 10, 1924 (at the age of 43), just after Welles's ninth birthday.[12]:326 After his mother's death Welles ceased pursuing music. He was taken in by Dudley Crafts Watson and lived with the family at Watson's family home, "Trillium Dell", on Marshman Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois. At the age of ten Orson, with Watson's third daughter, Marjorie (of the same age), ran away from home. They were found a week later, singing and dancing for money on a street corner in Milwaukee. Welles's father died when Orson was 15, in the summer after his graduation from Todd School for Boys, an independent school in Woodstock, Illinois. Maurice Bernstein, a physician from Chicago, became his guardian.
At Todd School Welles came under the influence of Roger Hill, a teacher who was later Todd's headmaster. Hill provided Welles with an ad hoc educational environment that proved invaluable to his creative experience, allowing Welles to concentrate on subjects that interested him. Welles performed and staged theatrical experiments and productions there. Following graduation from Todd, Welles was awarded a scholarship to Harvard University. Rather than enrolling, he chose travel. Later, he studied for a time at the Art Institute of Chicago.[13] He returned a number of times to Woodstock to direct his alma mater's student productions.