Orson Welles and Virginia Nicolson Welles with their daughter Christopher Welles in 1938Orson Welles and first wife, Virginia Nicolson, in November 1938Orson Welles and first wife, Virginia Nicolson, in November 1938Orson Welles with daughter ChristopherChris Welles and Peggy Webber (Macbeth)Chris Welles with her father in 1952.Chris Welles-Feder with actor Zac EfronChris Welles Feder (Workman Publishing photo)Chris Welles Feder at a screening of Magician in New York in November 2014. (Cohen Media Group)
Rita Hayworth – (mother of Rebecca Welles)
The first known photo of Orson and Rita on Dec. 5, 1941 before the There Are Frenchmen broadcastLeft to right are: Dr. Nayruce D. Bernstein, Orson Welles, childhood guardian and adviser, Rita Hayworth, and Orson Welles on Sept. 8, 1943. (AP Photo)Joseph Cotten, Rita and OrsonRita, Chris Welles and OrsonOrson Welles and Rita Hayworth with RebeccaRebecca, Orson, Chris and RitaRebecca Welles and Rita, circa 1950Rebecca, Orson and ChrisRita Hayworth holidaying with her daughter Rebecca in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1950.Rebecca Welles, 12, and her father in Pisa, Italy.Rebecca Welles in a screen capture from 1964’s “Hollywood and the Stars.”Rebecca Welles and her father, circa 1971
Paola Welles – (mother of Beatrice Welles)
Paola Mori on July 12, 1954Orson Welles with Paola in August 1953Orson Welles at his wedding to Paola Mori, 1955Actor Orson Welles, his wife, the former countess Di Girfalco, and daughter, Beatrice, are aboard the liner Exochodra prior to departure from New York City, Dec. 27, 1957 for Genoa, Italy. Family pet, Colombina, is making trip, too. Welles’ wife is known in Italy as actress Paola Mori. (AP Photo)Orson Welles with daughter Beatrice and wife Paola; Klosters Switzerland, Christmas 1962.Orson Welles and his wife Paola Mori on Oct. 29, 1963Beatrice in “Chimes at Midnight.”Paola, Orson and Beatrice Welles at the AFI tribute in 1975.Orson Welles’ daughter Beatrice puts bullring sand down a dry well on a ranch in Ronda, southern Spain, Thursday, May 7, 1987, on top of Welles’ ashes. His friend, ex-bullfighter Antonio Ordonez, holds a bucket with more sand.
Friends
Orson with Dolores Del Rio and Charlie ChaplinWith Lea Padovani in 1948Eartha Kitt and OrsonOrson with longtime friend Roger HillOrson Welles and John HousemanOrson and cameraman Gary GraverJohn Huston, Orson, Peter BogdanovichOja KodarOrson and Oja KodarOrson with Kiki
Memorials
Marker for Orson Welles’ birthplace in Kensoha, Wisconsin
Orson Welles sculpture in Woodstock,Illinois. (Courtesy Jim Mulvaney \ CBS Radio)
The Orson Welles Stage at the Woodstock Opera House in Illinois.
Statue of Orson Welles in Split, Croatia Christian McKay and Zac Efron at the unveiling of a plaque on the spot of
the Mercury Theater in New York City.
Monument to the 1938 “Martian invasion” of Grovers Mills, N.J.
Neglected memorial in Mogador, Morocco, site of Othello.
Hollywood Walk of Fame stars – radio and film.
Memorial is unveiled in Ronda, Spain,on Sept. 5, 2015.
A memorial to Orson Welles is unveiled in Ronda, Spain,on Sept. 5, 2015.
The well in Ronda, Spain where Orson Welles’ ashes were buried.
