Christopher Bray

Homage to awesome Welles on his centenary

Both Patrick McGilligan and Simon Callow sympathetically capture the larger-than-life maverick who detested appearing in any film that wasn’t his own

  • Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane

    Patrick McGilligan

    Harper, pp. 832

  • Orson Welles: One Man Band

    Simon Callow

    Cape, pp. 496

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