Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles Release date: 2014-12-12 Genres: Documentary Actors: Simon Callow, Elvis Mitchell, Charlton Heston, Anthony Perkins, Ruth Ford, Wolfgang Puck, Richard Benjamin, Oja Kodar, Suzanne Cloutier, Christopher Welles, John Houseman, Dennis Hopper, François Mitterrand, Joseph McBride, Norman Lloyd, Buck Henry, Jeanne Moreau, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Beatrice Welles, James Naremore, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joanne Hill Styles, Stefan Drößler, Michael Dawson, Reggie Armour Direction: Peter Bogdanovich, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Henry Jaglom, John Huston, Julie Taymor, George Lucas, Costa-Gavras, Sydney Pollack, William Friedkin, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles, Robert Wise, Paul Mazursky, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Peter Brook, Richard Linklater, Eric Sherman Production: Frank Marshall, Pandro S. Berman, William Alland, William Randolph Hearst Budget: $813,505Runtime: 1 h. 32 min. Score: 6.7/10 Votes: 34 Countries: United States of America Companies: Cohen Welles Project Available* : Overview: The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.