Bibliography of Orson Welles

This is a bibliography of books by or about the director and actor Orson Welles.

## Books by Orson Welles

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The Citizen Kane Book (1971)

### Shakespeare studies

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* Hill, Roger and Welles, Orson (eds.). Everybody's Shakespeare. Woodstock, Illinois: Todd Press, 1934. (omnibus volume and three separate volumes, with abridged and annotated scripts of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night)
* Welles, Orson, and Hill, Roger (eds.). The Mercury Shakespeare. New York: Harper & Row, 1939. (revised version of the above; omnibus volume and three separate volumes, with abridged and annotated scripts of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night)
* Welles, Orson, and Hill, Roger (eds.). The Mercury Shakespeare: Macbeth. New York: Harper & Row, 1941.

### Scripts and screenplays

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#### Plays

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* Welles, Orson. Miracle à Hollywood, et À Bon Entendeur. Paris: Gallimard, 1952. (two plays, [The Unthinking Lobster, and Fair Warning], only published in French)
* Welles, Orson. Moby Dick—Rehearsed. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1965. ISBN 0-573-61242-0 (play).
* France, Richard (ed.), Welles, Orson. Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. ISBN 9780313273346 (scripts of 1930s Welles abridgments of Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Five Kings)
* Tarbox, Todd (ed.); Hill, Roger and Welles, Orson. Marching Song: A Play. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. ISBN 978-1538125526 (first publication of an unperformed play, written in 1932)

#### Radio plays

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* Welles, Orson. His Honor—The Mayor. New York: The Free Company, 1941. (script of radio play broadcast April 6, 1941)

#### Screenplays

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* Fry, Nicholas (ed.), Welles, Orson. The Trial. London: Lorrimer, 1970. (screenplay, first published in French by l’Avant scene du cinema in 1963)
* Kael, Pauline, Mankiewicz, Herman J. and Welles, Orson. The Citizen Kane Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. ISBN 0-436-23030-5 (screenplay prefaced by Kael's essay "Raising Kane")
* Comito, Terry (ed.), Welles, Orson. Touch of Evil. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985 (screenplay).
* Pepper, James and Rosenbaum, Jonathan (eds.), Welles, Orson, and Kodar, Oja. The Big Brass Ring. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Teresa Press, 1987. ISBN 9780944166017 (unproduced screenplay)
* Gellert Lyons, Bridget (ed.) Welles, Orson. Chimes at Midnight. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988. (screenplay)
* Pepper, James and Rosenbaum, Jonathan (eds.), Welles, Orson. The Cradle Will Rock. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Teresa Press, 1994. ISBN 0-944166-06-7 (unproduced screenplay)
* Gosetti, Giorgio (ed.), Welles, Orson and Kodar, Oja. The Other Side of the Wind. Locarno, Switzerland: Cahiers du cinéma/ Locarno Film Festival, 2005. (screenplay of a film which was incomplete at the time of publication - subsequently completed in 2018)

### Novels and short stories

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* Welles, Orson and others. The Lives of Harry Lime. London: Pocket Books, 1952. (short stories)
* Welles, Orson. Une Grosse Légume. Paris: Gallimard, 1953. (novel ghostwritten by Maurice Bessy, only published in French)
* Welles, Orson. Mr. Arkadin. Paris: Gallimard, 1954. (novel ghostwritten by Maurice Bessy, subsequently translated into English)

### Interviews

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* Rosenbaum, Jonathan (ed.), Welles, Orson and Bogdanovich, Peter. This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. ISBN 0-06-016616-9 (revised and expanded in 1998)
* Estrin, Mark W. (ed.), Welles, Orson. Orson Welles Interviews. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

### Conversations

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* Tarbox, Todd. Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media, 2013. ISBN 1-59393-260-X
* Biskind, Peter (ed.), Jaglom, Henry. My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company), 2013. ISBN 9780805097252

### Artwork

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* Welles, Orson. Les Bravades. New York: Workman, 1996. ISBN 0-7611-0595-6
* Braund, Simon (ed). Orson Welles portfolio: Sketches and drawings from the Welles estate. Titan Books, 2019. ISBN 9781789090321

### Foreword

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* Conchita Cintrón, Memoirs of a bullfighter, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1968.
* Marion Davies, The Times We Had : Life with William Randolph Hearst, Ballantine Books, 1975.

## Books about Orson Welles

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### Biographies

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* Bessy, Maurice. Orson Welles: An investigation into his films and philosophy. Crown, 1971. (abridged translation of French-language biography, first published in Paris in 1963)
* Brady, Frank. Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. ISBN 0-385-26759-2
* Callow, Simon. Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995; New York: Viking, 1996. ISBN 0-670-86722-5 (biography covering 1915–41)
* ______________. Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans. London: Jonathan Cape, 2006; New York: Viking, 2006. ISBN 0-670-87256-3 (biography covering 1941–47)
* ______________. Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band. London: Jonathan Cape, 2015; New York: Viking, 2016. ISBN 9780670024919 (biography covering 1947–65)
* ______________. Orson Welles, Volume 4. (forthcoming biography covering 1965–85)[1]
* Feeney, F. X. Orson Welles: Power, Heart and Soul. Raleigh, North Carolina: The Critical Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1941629086
* Fowler, Roy Alexander. Orson Welles: A First Biography. London: Pendulum Publications, 1946.
* Heylin, Clinton. Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios. Chicago Review Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55652-547-8
* Higham, Charles. Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. ISBN 0-312-58929-8
* Leaming, Barbara. Orson Welles. New York: Viking, 1985. ISBN 0-670-52895-1
* McBride, Joseph. Orson Welles. Harcourt Brace, 1977.
* McGilligan, Patrick. Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane. New York: HarperCollins, 2015. ISBN 0062112481
* Noble, Peter. The Fabulous Orson Welles. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1956.
* Thomson, David. Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles. New York: Vintage, 1997. ISBN 978-0679772835
* Valentinetti, Claudio M. Orson Welles. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1980. (in Italian)
* Visdei, Anca. Orson Welles. Éditions de Fallois, 2015. (in French)
* Whaley, Bart. Orson Welles: the man who was magic. Ebook, 2011.

### Studies of Citizen Kane (1941)

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* Berthomé, Jean-Pierre and Thomas, François. Citizen Kane. Paris: Flammarion, 1992. (in French)
* Carringer, Robert. The Making of Citizen Kane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
* Gottesman, Ronald (ed.). Focus on Citizen Kane. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
* ______________________. Perspectives on Citizen Kane. New York: G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1996.
* Joxe, Sandra, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles. Paris : Hatier, 1990. (in French)
* Kael, Pauline (ed.). The Citizen Kane Book. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1971.
* Lebo, Harlan. Citizen Kane: The Fiftieth Anniversary Album. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
* ____________. Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey. New York: WGI Publishing, 2000.
* ____________. Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. ISBN 9781250077530[2]
* Merryman, Richard. Mank. The Wit, World and Life of Herman Mankiewicz. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978.
* Mulvey, Laura. Citizen Kane. London: BFI, 1992.
* Naremore, James (ed.). Orson Welles's Citizen Kane: a Casebook. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-515892-2
* Pizzitola, Louis. Hearst over Hollywood: Power, passion and propaganda in the movies. Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0231116466
* Roy, Jean. Citizen Kane [de] Orson Welles: étude critique. Paris: Nathan, 1989. (in French)
* Walsh, John Evangelist. Walking Shadows: Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst and Citizen Kane. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

### Studies of other individual Welles films

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#### Too Much Johnson (unfinished, 1938)

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* Studer, Massimiliano. Alle origini di Quarto potere. Too Much Johnson: il film perduto di Orson Welles. Milano: Mimesis editore, 2018. (about the unfinished film Too Much Johnson). In Italian language

#### It's All True (unfinished, 1942)

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* Benamou, Catherine L. It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. (about the unfinished film It's All True)

#### The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

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* Carringer, Robert. The Magnificent Ambersons: a Reconstruction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-07857-8
* Perkins, V. F. The Magnificent Ambersons. London: BFI, 1999.

#### The Stranger (1946)

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* Strobel, Ricarda. Propagandafilm und Melodrama: Untersuchungen zu Alfred Hitchcocks "Lifeboat" und Orson Welles' "The Stranger". Berlin: Eissenschaftler-verlag, 1984. (in German)

#### Othello (1952)

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* Del Ministro, Maurizio. Othello di Welles. Rome: Bulzoni, 2000. (about Othello) (in Italian)
* Mac Liammóir, Micháel. Put Money in Thy Purse: The Making of Orson Welles's Othello. London: Methuen, 1952. (revised edition in 1978)

#### Don Quixote (unfinished, 1955-73)

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* Cobos, Juan, and Esteve Riambau. Don Quijote: páginas del guión cinematográfico de Orson Welles. Madrid: Asociación de Directores de Escena de España, 1992. (about the unfinished film Don Quixote) (in Spanish)
* Sciortino, Sigismondo Domenico. Don Chisciotte e il Cinema (dell')Invisibile. Rome: La Camera Verde, 2013. (about the unfinished film Don Quixote) (in Italian)

#### Touch of Evil (1957)

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* Comito, Terry (ed.). Touch of Evil. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985. (screenplay with literary criticism)

#### The Trial (1962)

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* Trias, Jean-Phillipe. Le Procès d'Orson Welles. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma / CNDP, 2005. (about The Trial) (in French)

#### Chimes at Midnight (1965)

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* Gellert Lyons, Bridget (ed.) Welles, Orson. Chimes at Midnight. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
* Riambau, Esteve. Las cosas que hemos visto: Welles y Falstaff. Luces de Gálibo, 2015. (in Spanish)

#### The Deep (unfinished, 1967-70)

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* Kovačić, Duško and Rafaelić Daniel. Orson Welles in Hvar (in Croatian)

#### F for Fake (1973)

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* Thieme, Claudia. F for Fake and the Growth in Complexity of Orson Welles' Documentary Form. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

#### The Other Side of the Wind (unfinished, 1970-6; posthumously completed, 2018)

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* Gosetti, Giorgio (ed.). The Other Side of the Wind. Locarno, Switzerland: Cahiers du cinéma/ Locarno Film Festival, 2005. ISBN 9782866424329
* Karp, Josh. Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. ISBN 9781250007087
* Yates, Michael. Shoot 'Em Dead: Orson Welles & The Other Side of the Wind. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu, 2020.
* Studer, Massimiliano, Orson Welles e la New Hollywood, il caso di The Other Side of The Wind, Mimesis Edizioni, 2021. (in Italian)

### Studies of multiple Welles films

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* Rosenbaum, Jonathan (trans.), Bazin, André. Orson Welles. Harper and Row, 1978.
* Bogdanovich, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. New York: Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
* Cowie, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. Da Capo Press, 1973.
* Drössler, Stefan, (ed.). The Unknown Orson Welles. Munich: Filmmuseum München/belleville Verlag, 2004. (about Welles's unfinished films; text in three languages) (in English, French, and German)
* Garis, Robert. The Films of Orson Welles. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
* Gear, Matthew Asprey. At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City. Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2016.
* Gottesman, Ronald (ed.). Focus on Orson Welles. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
* Hel-Guedj, Johan-Frederik. Orson Welles, la règle du faux. Michalon, 1997. (in French)
* Higham, Charles. The Films of Orson Welles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
* Howard, James. The Complete Films of Orson Welles. Citadel Press, 1991.
* McBride, Joseph. Orson Welles. Da Capo Press, 1996. (heavily revised edition of a 1972 monograph)
* _______________. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
* Nagel, Elsa. L'Art du Mensonge et de la Vérité: Orson Welles, Le Procès et Une Histoire Immortelle. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997. (about The Trial, The Immortal Story and F for Fake) (in French)
* Naremore, James. The Magic World of Orson Welles. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-252-03977-5 (centennial anniversary edition, first published by Oxford University Press in 1978, revised edition published by Southern Methodist University Press in 1989)
* Rasmussen, Randy. Orson Welles: Six Films, Scene by Scene, New York: McFarland, 2006
* Rippy, Marguerite. Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective. Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8093-2912-3

### Studies of Welles's theatre work

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* Anderegg, Michael. Orson Welles, Shakespeare and Popular Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
* France, Richard. The Theatre of Orson Welles. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-8387-1972-4

### Studies of Welles's radio work

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* Cantril, Hadley. The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. OCLC 171781
* Gallop, Alan. The Martians are Coming! The true story of Orson Welles' 1938 panic broadcast. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1445602233
* Gosling, John. Waging the War of the Worlds: A history of the 1938 radio broadcast and resulting panic. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2009 (including the original script by Howard Koch) ISBN 978-0786441051
* Heyer, Paul. The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years. Ottawa: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 0-7425-3797-8
* Koch, Howard. The Panic Broadcast: The whole story of Orson Welles ' legendary radio show invasion from Mars. New York: Avon, 1970.
* Schwartz, A. Brad. Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. New York: Hill & Wang, 2015. ISBN 0809031612

### Memoirs prominently featuring Welles

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* Anderson, Arthur, An Actor's Odyssey: Orson Welles to Lucky the Leprechaun. Albany: BearManor Media, 2010. ISBN 1-59393-522-6.
* Bond, Dorian. Me and Orson Welles: Travelling Europe with a Hollywood Legend. The History press, 2018.
* Castle, William, Step Right Up! I'm Gonna Scare the Pants Off America: Memoirs of a B-Movie Mogul. New York: Putnam, 1992. ISBN 0-88687-657-5
* Cotten, Joseph, Vanity will get you somewhere. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1987. ISBN 978-0595091331
* Everett, Rupert, Red carpets and other bananas skins. Abacus, 2007. ISBN 978-0349120584
* Feder, Chris Welles. In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-1-56512-599-5
* Graver, Gary, with Rausch, Andrew J. Making Movies with Orson Welles; A Memoir. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2008. ISBN 0-8108-6140-2
* Heston, Charlton. In the Arena: An Autobiography. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
* Gómez, Andrés Vicente. El Sueño Loco [A Crazy Dream] (Ayuntamiento de Malaga, Malaga, 2001).(in Spanish) [3]
* Hill, Roger. One man's time and chance: A memoir of eighty years 1895-1975. Woodstock public library, 1977.
* Holiday, Billie with Dufty, William, Lady Sings the Blues. New York: Doubleday, 1956.
* Houseman, John. Run Through: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. ISBN 0-671-21034-3
* _______________. Front and Center: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. ISBN 0-671-24328-4
* _______________. Final Dress: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
* _______________. Unfinished Business: A Memoir, London: Chatto & Windus, 1986.
* Huston, John. An Open Book. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. ISBN 9780394404653
* Lindsay-Hogg, Michael. Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York and Points Beyond. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. ISBN 978-0-307-59468-6
* McCambridge, Mercedes. The Quality of Mercy: An autobiography. New York: Time Books, 1981. ISBN 978-0812909456
* Mac Liammóir, Micháel. All for Hecuba: An Irish Theatrical Biography. Dublin: Branden Books, 1967.
* Tasca di Cuto, Alessandro. 'Un Principe in America''. Sellerio Editore, 2004.ISBN 8876811508; English translation, as ''A Prince in America'''. 2011\. ISBN 9781465945648

### Other

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* Orson Welles, Cahiers du cinéma, Éditions de l'Étoile, 1986. (in French)
* Anile, Alberto, Orson Welles in Italy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. (English translation of book first published in Italian in 2006)
* Beja, Morris, ed. Perspectives on Orson Welles. G. K. Hall, 1995.
* Berg, Chuck and Erskine, Tom (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Orson Welles. Checkmark Books, 2003.
* Berthomé, Jean-Pierre and Thomas, François. Orson Welles at Work. London: Phaidon, 2008. (English translation of book first published in French in 2006)
* Ciment, Michel. "Les Enfants Terribles" in American Film, December 1984. (in French)
* Cobos, Juan. Orson Welles: España como obsesión, Editiones de la Filmoteca, Institut de Valencià de Cultura, España, 1993. (in Spanish)
* Conrad, Peter. Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life. London: Faber and Faber, 2003.
* D'Angela, Toni (ed.). Nelle terre di Orson Welles. Alessandria: Edizioni Falsopiano, 2004.
* Davies, Anthony. Filming Shakespeare's Plays. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
* Drazin, Charles. In Search of the Third Man. Limelight, 2000.
* Duncan, Paul. Orson Welles: Pocket Essentials. London: Pocket Books, 2000.
* Gilmore, James N. and Gottlieb, Sidney (ed.). Orson Welles in focus: Texts and contexts. Indiana university bloomington, 2018.
* Gosling, John. "Waging the War of the Worlds". McFarland & Company, Inc, 2009.
* Greene, Graham. The Third Man. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.
* Hormiga, Gustavo (2002). "Orsonwelles, a new genus of giant linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Hawaiian Islands". Invertebrate Systematics 16: 369–448.
* Ishaghpour, Youssef. Orson Welles, cinéaste, une caméra visible, éditions de la différence, 2001. (Three volumes) (in French) :
* Volume 1 : Mais notre dépendance à l'image est énorme..., 2001.
* Volume 2 : Les films de la période américaine, 2001.
* Volume 3 : Les Films de la période nomade, 2001.
* Jorgens, Jack J. Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977.
* Müller, Adalberto, Orson Welles: Banda de um homem Só. Azouge, 2015. (in Portuguese)
* Naremore, James. "The Trial, the FBI Vs Orson Welles" in Film comment, vol. 27, n° 1, 22–27, 1991 (about FBI files on Welles)
* Riambau, Esteve. Orson Welles: Un España immortal, Editiones de la Filmoteca, Institut de Valencià de Cultura, España, 1993. (in Spanish)
* Ramón, David. La Santa de Orson Welles, D.R. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 1991. (in Spanish)
* Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions", in Placing Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
* _____________________. "The Battle Over Orson Welles", in Essential Cinema. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
* _____________________. "Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge" in Movie Wars. A Capella Books, 2000.
* _____________________. Discovering Orson Welles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN 0-520-25123-7
* Shakespeare Bulletin, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2005: Special Welles issue.
* Simon, William G., (ed.). "Special Welles issue", in: Persistence of Vision: The Journal of the Film Faculty of the City University of New York; Number 7, 1989.
* Simonson, Robert. "Orson's Shadow Talkback Series Continues May 4 with Welles's Daughter." May 3, 2005.
* Taylor, John Russell. Orson Welles: a Celebration. Pavilion, 1986.
* ___________________. Orson Welles. Pavilion, 1998.
* Thomas, François. "Orson Welles et le remodelage du texte shakespearien" in Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 16 | 1998, 171-182 (in French) [4]
* Tonguette, Peter Prescott. Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews With His Actors, Editors, Cinematographers and Magicians. New York: McFarland, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7864-2760-4
* Walters, Ben. Welles. London: Haus Publishing, 2004. ISBN 978-1-904341-80-2
* Whaley, Barton. Orson Welles: The Man Who Was Magic, Lybrary.com, 2005. ASIN B005HEHQ7E
* White, Rob. The Third Man. London: BFI, 2003.
* Wood, Bret. Orson Welles: a Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990. ISBN 0-313-26538-0

## Written fiction featuring Welles as a character

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### Graphic novels

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* Camus, David and Abadzis, Nick. The Cigar That Fell In Love With a Pipe: Featuring Orson Welles & Rita Hayworth. SelfMadeHero, New York, 2014.
* Daoudi, Youssef. The Giant: Orson Welles, The Artist and the Shadow. Macmillan, London, 2025.
* Lawson, Milton and Whalen, Erik. Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds. Scout Comics, New York, 2022.

### Novellas

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* Newman, Kim. Anno Dracula: The Other Side of Midnight. London, 2000. (subsequently integrated into Newman's 2013 novel Johnny Alucard, in a rewritten form)

### Novels

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* Brown, Robert Dwight. Orson Welles' Lost War of the Worlds Screenplay. New York: Allonymous Books, 2013.
* Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. New York: Random House, 2000.
* Ferrario, Davide. Dissolvenza al nero (Fade to Black). Rome, 1994.
* Kaplow, Robert. Me and Orson Welles. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2003. ISBN 1-931561-49-4
* Newman, Kim. Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha. Avon Books, London, 1998.
* _____________. Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard. Titan, London, 2013.

### Operas

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* Hagen, Daron Orson Rehearsed. (Unpublished, though libretto included with 2021 CD release) 2018.

### Plays

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* Crider, Amy. Wells and Welles. Theatrical Rights Worldwide, New York, 2025.
* Druxman, Michael B. Orson Welles: A One-Person Play in Two Acts. Createspace, New York, 2011.
* Pendleton, Austin. Orson's Shadow. Dramatists Play Service, New York, 2006.
* Pettigrew, Joel. Mercury Man: The Last Performance of Orson Welles. (Unpublished) 2018.
* Wollman, Chris. The Sacred Beasts. (Unpublished) 2017.

## References

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1. ^ Kelly, Ray (March 31, 2016). "Simon Callow talks about 'Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band'". Wellesnet. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
2. ^ Lebo, Harlan. "Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
3. ^ Written in Spanish; the English translation of a portion of Gómez's autobiography was subsequently made available online on Gómez's company website in 2013
4. ^ Thomas, François (1998). "Orson Welles et le remodelage du texte shakespearien'". Actes des Congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare (16): 171–182\. doi:10.4000/shakespeare.290. Retrieved 2007-09-19.171-182&rft.date=1998&rft_id=info:doi/10.4000/shakespeare.290&rft.aulast=Thomas&rft.aufirst=François&rft_id=https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/290&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Bibliography+of+Orson+Welles" class="Z3988">

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* Moby Dick (1971)
* Orson Welles' Magic Show (1976–1985)
* The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (1984)

Unfinished films|

* Too Much Johnson (1938)
* It's All True (1942)
* Don Quixote (1957–1969)
* The Heroine (1967)
* The Deep (1967–1970)
* Filming 'The Trial' (1981)
* The Dreamers (1980–1982)

Partly directed|

* Journey into Fear (1943)
* Follow the Boys (1944)
* Black Magic (1949)
* Three Cases of Murder (1955)
* David and Goliath (1960)
* The Southern Star (1969)

Adaptations|

* Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
* Treasure Island (1972)
* Cradle Will Rock (1999)
* The Big Brass Ring (1999)

Television|

* Orson Welles' Sketch Book (1955)
* Around the World with Orson Welles (1955)
* Orson Welles and People (1956)
* The Fountain of Youth (1958)
* In the Land of Don Quixote (1964)
* The Orson Welles Show (1979)

Theatre|

* Marching Song (1932)
* Bright Lucifer
* Voodoo Macbeth (1936)
* Horse Eats Hat (1936)
* The Cradle Will Rock (1937)
* Caesar (1937–1938)
* Too Much Johnson (1938)
* Native Son (1941)
* The Mercury Wonder Show (1943)
* Around the World (1946)
* Othello (1951)
* The Lady in the Ice (1953)
* Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955)
* Rhinoceros (1960)

Radio|

* Les Misérables (1937)
* The Shadow (1937–1938)
* The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938)
* "Dracula" (1938)
* "The War of the Worlds" (1938)
* The Campbell Playhouse (1938–1940)
* The Orson Welles Show (1941–1942)
* Ceiling Unlimited (1942–1943)
* Hello Americans (1942–1943)
* The Orson Welles Almanac (1944)
* This Is My Best (1945)
* Orson Welles Commentaries (1945–1946)
* The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (1946)
* The Adventures of Harry Lime (1951–1952)
* The Black Museum (1951–52)

Spoken-word|

* The Happy Prince (1946)
* The Begatting of the President (1970)

Books|

* This Is Orson Welles (1992)
* Les Bravades (1996)

Related|

* Mercury Theatre
* Rita Hayworth (second wife)
* Paola Mori (third wife)
* Beatrice Welles (daughter)
* Oja Kodar
* Frozen Peas
* Orson Welles Paul Masson advertisements
* It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993)
* Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
* They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
* Orson Welles (crater)

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