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1 trivia quiz  The Film History of Orson Welles icon
Orson Welles may well be the greatest and most influential film director of all-time. With that in mind, this quiz will cover only the films that Welles has directed. I hope you will play and enjoy this quiz.
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2 trivia quiz  The Films Of Orson Welles
Here are some questions about one of the greatest men associated with the making of classic movies.
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* What film marked Orson Welles' debut as film actor, director, producer, and screenplay writer?
* In 1948, Orson Welles directed, produced, wrote the screenplay for, and played the lead role in what Shakespearean movie?
* In what 1946 film does Orson Welles play Franz Kindler, a Nazi war criminal hiding out as a professor with a clock obsession in a Connecticut college town?
* In what 1948 classic does Orson Welles play an Irish sailor framed for murder by his then wife Rita Hayworth?
* In what film does Orson Welles play Jonathan Wilk, based on Clarence Darrow, attorney for murderers Stiener and Straus, taken from the notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case?
* To what does the word 'Rosebud' refer in Citizen Kane?
* In what 1950 film does Orson Welles play the enigmatic Harry Lime, whose attempt to fake his own death is foiled by Joseph Cotton in the streets of postwar Vienna?
* Which movie did Orson Welles not lend his voice to as narrator?
* In which 1957 movie does Orson Welles play a powerful rancher, his only western role, whose property was called Xanadu, the same name as the estate of Charles Foster Kane?
* Orson Welles directed, wrote the screenplay, and co-starred in what 1958 bizarre thriller that starred Charlton Heston as a Mexican narcotics agent and Janet Leigh as his wife?
* As a follow-up to 'Kane', Orson Welles directed which film, based on a Booth Tarkington novel about the difficulties faced by a family of upper crust unfortunates?
* In 1947, Welles created the film-noir 'The Lady from Shanghai', which featured Welles, several of Welles' Mercury Theater actors, and what Hollywood leading lady?
* Several years after Welles' first stab at Shakespeare with 'Macbeth', the director-extraordinaire created another film adapted from the Bard. Which of these Shakespeare plays was made into a Welles film in 1952?
* The first of Orson Welles' magnificent films based on Shakespeare's works was his 'Macbeth', created in 1948. Who played Macbeth in this work of cinematic art?
* What is the name of the 1955 Welles-directed film that was based on a novel written by Welles himself?
* Back in the United States in 1958, Welles directed and co-starred in a film-noir classic called 'Touch of Evil'. Which of these Hollywood leading men starred alongside Welles in this dark thriller?
* In 1962, Welles, back in Europe, directed a film called 'Le Proc?s', otherwise known as 'The Trial'. Upon whose novel was this work of surrealistic extravagance based?
* What is the name of the documentary-style film, released in 1993, that contains footage of a documentary project that Welles had been working on in the early 1940s in Brazil?

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