Orson Welles (1915-1985) was an iconic Academy Award-winning
director, writer, actor, and producer for film, stage, radio, and
television. He won the 1941 Academy Award for best original
screenplay for Citizen Kane and in 1970 received the Academy
Honorary Award. Known for his baritone voice, he was well regarded
as a radio and film actor, a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor,
and an accomplished magician. He first gained notoriety for his
October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the
Worlds. Winner of multiple awards, he is now widely acknowledged as
one of the most important dramatic artists of the twentieth
century. In 2002, two British Film Institute polls of directors and
critics voted Orson Welles the greatest film director of all
time.
Peter Lorre (1904-1964) was a Hungarian-American actor who appeared
in such iconic films as Casablanca, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The
Maltese Falcon, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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