Famous People with Name Welles

George Orson Welles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Orson Welles: was an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, actor and producer for film, stage, radio and television.Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, it caused a number of listeners to panic. In the mid-1930s, his New York theatre adaptations of an all-black voodoo Macbeth and a contemporary allegorical Julius Caesar became legendary. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years. During this period he became a serious political activist and commentator through journalism, radio and public appearances closely associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1941, he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in Citizen Kane, often chosen in polls of film critics as the greatest film ever made.

Gwen Welles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gwen Welles: was an American actress of stage and screen. She was born in Chattanooga Tennessee as Gwen Goldberg; she was not, as is often reported, the daughter of Rebecca Welles (1944-2004), but rather the daughter of Rebecca Welles (Weis).

Egon Joseph Wellesz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Egon Joseph Wellesz: was an Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and an eminent scholar of Byzantine music.