Orson Welles

Welles average dinner consisted of 2 72 oz steaks cooked rare with a pinch of scotch.

Welles was the narrator for many Trailers for the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

By late 1984 Welles had weighed over 350 pounds.

In 1983 Welles ate 18 hot dogs in one sitting.

While Welles was providing the voice of Unicron in the transformers movie he became so weak from doing this, they had to run his voice through a synthesizer.

Welles had written over 50 scripts but from 1978-1984 not a single one of them were produced.

In the late 70s Welles was the offical spokesman for the Paul Masson wine company.

Welles hated working on The Transformers: The Movie (1986), where he voiced Unicron. When asked about the film, he not only couldn't remember the name of his character, but he described the film as being "I play a big toy who attacks a bunch of smaller toys".

His performance as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949) is ranked #93 on Premiere Magazine's "100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time".

His performance as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941) is ranked #12 on Premiere Magazine's "100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time".

On 30 October of 1938, Welles directed the Mercury Theatre On the Air in a dramatization of The War of the Worlds, based on H.G. Wells' novel. Setting the events in then-contemporary locations (The "landing spot" for the Martian invasion, Grover's Mill, New Jersey, was chosen at random with a New Jersey road map) and dramatizing it in the style of a musical program interrupted by news bulletins, complete with eye-witness accounts, it caused a nationwide panic, with many listeners fully convinced that the Earth was being invaded by Mars. The next day, Welles publicly apologized. While many lawsuits were filed against both Welles and the CBS radio network, all were dismissed. The incident is mentioned in textbook accounts of mass hysteria and the delusions of crowds.

Welles is one of only six actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance. The other five actors are: Alan Arkin, James Dean, Paul Muni, Montgomery Clift and Lawrence Tibbett.

Once H.G. Wells was driving through San Antonio, Texas and stopped to ask the way. The person he happened to ask was none other than Orson Welles who had recently broadcast The War of the Worlds on the radio. They got on well and spent the day together.

Welles is one of the most recognizable deep voices in all of film, radio or television.

He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.

Welles was voted the 2nd "Greatest Film Director of all time" by Entertainment Weekly.

Welles was the narrator for many of the trailers for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

On 2005, Welles was ranked #9 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Greatest Directors Ever!".

Welles considered black and white to be "the actor's best friend", feeling that it focused more on the actor's expressions and feelings than on hair, eye or wardrobe color.

Orson Welles frequently casted Joseph Cotten.

Orson Welles father was a concert pianist.

Orson Welles astrological star sign is Taurus.

Orson Welles was married to movie star Rita Hayworth.

Orson Welles received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first ever screen appearance in Citizen Kane.

Orson Welles won an Academy award for Citizen Kane in the Best Original Screenplay category, sharing the honor with Herman J. Mankiewickz.

Frank Sinatra was the godfather of one of his daughters.

Orson Welles was originally going to do the voice of Darth Vader but he turned it down and it went to James Earl Jones.

Orson Welles was a film director, actor and writer.

Orson Welles has been divorced twice.

Orson Welles has been married three times.

Orson Welles was 6'1" tall.

He died the same day as Yul Brynner.

He made The Lady from Shanghai (1947) towards the end of his marriage to Rita Hayworth. They were constantly fighting at the time and (some say as a comeuppance to Hayworth) he made her cut off most of her long, luxurious red hair and dye it bright platinum blonde.

Welles was named #16 on the "50 Greatest Screen Legends" list of the American Film Institute.