Me and Orson Welles Character Card: George Coulouris (Ben Chaplin)
by Robert Diamond
- Dec 1, 2009
Starring as the prickly and pessimistic English actor George Coulouris is Ben Chaplin. "In the States we think of him as a romantic comedy guy, but working with him on the film we got to see that he's got tremendous range as an actor" says producer Ann Carli. "He's amazing. I just said thank you for every arched eyebrow, thank you for every hurt and indignant pause - thank you for all of that."
Me and Orson Welles Character Card: Richard Samuels (Zac Efron)
by Robert Diamond
- Nov 30, 2009
The largely fictionalized template for Richard Samuels in ME AND ORSON WELLES, Anderson remained with Orson as a member of the Mercury Theatre On The Air and became one of the leading voice artists on radio, as well as making regular appearances on stage, in films and on television.
TV: Me and Orson Welles Special Preview Clip 2 - Ian McKay as Orson Welles
by Robert Diamond
- Nov 30, 2009
Based in real theatrical history, Me and Orson Welles is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it's being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937.
Danes, Efron & McKay Led 'Me and Orson Welles' Presents 'War Of The Worlds' Live Broadcast, 10/30
by Jessica Lewis
- Oct 29, 2009
In 1938, just one year after forming The Mercury Theater, Orson Welles took to the air with a series of radio broadcasts on the Columbia Broadcasting System called The Mercury Theater on the Air. In the most famous of these episodes, Welles directed and narrated an adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel 'The War of the Worlds,' reading without commercial interruption as it was a news broadcast.
