In Memoriam links of interest

Post by **Wellesnet** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:15 am

Noted Italian Welles scholar Ciro Giorgini has passed away:
http://www.wellesnet.com/welles-scholar ... -has-died/

Roger Ryan · Post by **Roger Ryan** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:50 am

This is very sad news coming right in the middle of the celebrations of Welles' centenary. Mr. Giorgini's love of Welles' work was obvious and we are indebted to him for recognizing the value of the TOO MUCH JOHNSON reels - I'm pleased he lived long enough to see those reels made public.

Le Chiffre · Post by **Le Chiffre** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:47 am

Did a lot of good work involving some of Welles's lesser known European projects. An unsung hero.

Here's an interesting quote from a Jonathan Rosenbaum article about the great movie theatre sequence in Don Quixote: "I don't know specifically why Bonanni decided several years ago to air this sequence on Italian TV, though I'm pretty sure it was Ciro Giorgini, who works for RAI, who arranged for the screening."

Post by **Wellesnet** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:23 pm

Like Mel Blanc, he was also known as the "Man of a Thousand Voices". Part of Welles's voice team for the Harry Lime series and other projects:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/r ... ond-790012

Interview with Robert Rietti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SB9wyyEpTs

Robert Rietti. The Man with a thousand voices remastered version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NTRFBDSYz8

Post by **Wellesnet** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:45 pm

Also starred in John Huston's "Moulin Rouge":
http://www.wellesnet.com/colette-marcha ... ead-at-90/

Post by **Wellesnet** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:05 pm

Appeared in Welles's "Moby Dick Rehearsed". 2009 interview:
http://www.wellesnet.com/sir-christophe ... moby-dick/

Post by **Wellesnet** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:06 pm

Noted documentary filmmaker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_and_David_Maysles

Post by **Wellesnet** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:19 pm

http://www.wellesnet.com/natasha-parry- ... ead-at-84/

Post by **Wellesnet** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 10:29 pm

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/john- ... 201606435/

Post by **Wellesnet** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:05 am

http://www.wellesnet.com/kathryn-trospe ... ad-at-100/

After Pauline Kael made her baseless claim in the 1971 essay Raising Kane that Welles did not co-write Citizen Kane, Trosper Popper remarked to director Peter Bogdanovich, "Then I'd like to know, what was all that stuff I was always typing for Mr. Welles?"

Trosper Popper was an eyewitness to the collaboration between Welles and Herman Mankiewicz on the script for the film. She cooperated with Harlan Lebo for his book Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey and Robert Caringer's groundbreaking essay The Scripts of Citizen Kane.

Post by **Wellesnet** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:21 pm

Joanne Grace Hill Tarbox Styles, ‘foster sister’ of Orson Welles, passes away at 98:
http://www.wellesnet.com/joanne-grace-h ... way-at-98/

Post by **Wellesnet** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 5:04 pm

http://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-e ... roosevelt/

Post by **Wellesnet** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:16 pm

Best known for helming four "James Bond" movies, Guy Hamilton (d. April 20, 2016) apprenticed under British director Carol Reed on “The Third Man.”

Hamilton described Welles as a troublesome collaborator, saying the use of shadow and tricky editing techniques in “The Third Man” served dual purposes: not only underscoring the theme of corruption but also masking Welles’s frequent absences from the set.

“One day Orson was supposed to be there, and we discovered he was in Rome,” Hamilton told the Guardian of London. “So someone was sent to fetch him and meanwhile, a Benzedrine-fuelled Carol said we had to shoot something. So he made me dress up in a big silly hat, and a big black coat with padded shoulders because I was rather skinny. And I found I was rather good at running in front of an arc of light and making the shadow of Harry Lime.”'

Wich2 · Post by **Wich2** » Thu May 12, 2016 11:38 am

I heard this week from Simon Jones that William Herz Jr. has passed away, not long before what would have been his 100th birthday in August.

I had the pleasure of playing Cassius in the recreation of the Mercury Theatre's radio JULIUS CAESAR at Friends of Old Time Radio, where Bill ably read Orson's linking material. And I was honored to aid German Public Radio's Christian Blees in interviewing Bill not long ago, for Welles' own 100th.

Prayers for rest, for a warm, intelligent man.

-Craig

P.S. - With Arthur Anderson's recent passing, I believe the only Mercury vets still with us are Norman Lloyd and Kevin O'Morrison.

Post by **Wellesnet** » Sun May 15, 2016 12:51 am

http://www.wellesnet.com/mercury-theatr ... ead-at-99/

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In Memoriam links of interest

RIP Ciro Giorgini - director of "Rosabella"

Re: RIP Ciro Giorgini - director of "Rosabella"

Re: RIP Ciro Giorgini - director of "Rosabella"

RIP Robert Rietti, voiceover expert worked with Welles

Collette Marchand, star of Welles's "Lady in the Ice"

RIP Sir Christopher Lee

Albert Maysles (Orson Welles in Spain)

Natasha Parry, Welles's Cordelia in '53 TV Lear

RIP John Guilermann, directed Welles in House of Cards

Kathryn Trosper Popper, Welles's assistant on Kane

Joanne Grace Hill Tarbox Styles dies at 98

Welles's eulogy for FDR

James Bond director Guy Hamilton, worked on 'The Third Man'

Another Mercurian passes - Bill Herz

Re: Another Mercurian passes - Bill Herz