Beatrice Welles was nine years old when her father, Orson Welles, made CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT. In this January 2016 interview, she recalls the atmosphere on set and her reluctance to play Falstaff’s young page.
Simon Callow played Falstaff to Keith Baxter’s King Henry IV in a 1998 production of Orson Welles’s stage version of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT. He has also published three volumes of a Welles biography. In this May 2016 interview, Callow discusses Welles’s nimble adaptation of several Shakespeare plays ...
In this May 2016 interview, Joseph McBride, author of “What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?,” discusses Welles’s late career and approach to adapting Shakespeare.
This excerpt from “The Merv Griffin Show,” broadcast September 21, 1965, features an interview with director Orson Welles while at the editing table for CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT.
