(May 06, 1915 - Oct. 10, 1985)
Orson Welles was an American theater and film director, and theater, radio and film actor. He gained international notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, which panicked millions of listeners into believing the broadcast was real, but he is best known for his 1941 film classic Citizen Kane, often chosen in polls of film critics as the greatest film ever made. He has been married with actress Rita Hayworth.