It begins with a death — a car accident that takes the life of a legendary director on his 70th birthday — and ends with a giant phallic symbol toppling over. In between those two moments, you get ...

Orson Bean, 91, died on Feb. 7 after sadly being stuck and killed by a vehicle in Venice, CA, authorities confirmed to ABC7. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said the actor’s death is being ...

As someone who knew Orson Bean mainly as a television personality on talk shows and game shows in the 1970s and ’80s, I have to admit I was surprised to discover as late as a few years ago just how ...

One afternoon in the fall of 1985, during our weekly or every-other-weekly lunch at Ma Maison, Orson Welles told me attacks were beginning to come in, in response to a slew of books that had recently ...

On July 2, 1946, director-star Orson Welles unveiled his RKO-Radio noir film in Los Angeles. By Jack D. Grant On July 2, 1946, director-star Orson Welles unveiled noir film The Stranger in Los Angeles ...

George Orson Welles, born on May 6, 1915, was a man of innumerable talents and unquenchable drive, whose creative stamp was left on stage, on radio and in film. An enfant terrible up to his death in ...

70 years ago this month, Orson Welles (pictured in a scene from "Citizen Kane") began writing for this very paper. But his boring subject matter - a wealth of personal problems - led to a perfect ...

Recorded conversations between Welles and director Jaglom are revealed for the first time in Peter Biskind's book, while Todd Tarbox's novel looks at the friendship between the celebrated filmmaker ...