Orson Welles died thirty years ago today
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 12:22 pm
While everyone was busy celebrating the 100th Birthday of Orson Welles back in May, today is actually the 30th Anniversary of his death. Here's a collection of the various TV obits broadcast at the time, with several very late interviews with Welles and comments from those who knew and worked with him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNEXZLvpw0
I remember that I was driving somewhere in the early hours when I heard on the car radio that Welles had died. I actually had to stop the car for a minute. It wasn't just that he was gone, it was more a feeling of frustration as there had been much news the last few years that he was about to start new projects like THE BIG BRASS RING, KING LEAR and THE CRADLE WILL ROCK and in the press at least, it sounded like Welles would finally get the chance to make another film, and now that was not to be. I have always been a Welles admirer, and now I mourned not only his passing, but that there would be no more Welles films, and that he would never get the opportunity to complete his unfinished projects and we would never get to see them.
Little did I know...............
RICHARD M ROBERTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNEXZLvpw0
I remember that I was driving somewhere in the early hours when I heard on the car radio that Welles had died. I actually had to stop the car for a minute. It wasn't just that he was gone, it was more a feeling of frustration as there had been much news the last few years that he was about to start new projects like THE BIG BRASS RING, KING LEAR and THE CRADLE WILL ROCK and in the press at least, it sounded like Welles would finally get the chance to make another film, and now that was not to be. I have always been a Welles admirer, and now I mourned not only his passing, but that there would be no more Welles films, and that he would never get the opportunity to complete his unfinished projects and we would never get to see them.
Little did I know...............
RICHARD M ROBERTS