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 into one coherent work of cinema.
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.