Orson Welles

Author: Simon Callow

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  • : $18.97 AUD
  • : 9780099462514
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
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  • : 01 January 1996
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Simon Callow
  • : Orson Welles Biographies Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : New ed
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780099462514
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Description

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.

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Insightful, incisive enlightening, the first volume of Simon Callow's comprehensive biography of Orson Welles

Author description

Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared on the stage and in many films, including the hugely popular Four Weddings and a Funeral. His books include Being an Actor, Shooting the Actor, Love is Where it Falls, the first two volumes of his three-volume life of Orson Welles, his theatrical memoir My Life in Pieces, and, most recently, the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World.