Around the World with Orson Welles
A six-part British television travel series written, directed, and presented by Orson Welles for ITV in 1955. Filmed entirely in Europe, the series follows Welles through Vienna, the Basque Country, Madrid, Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and London’s Chelsea Pensioners, blending travelogue, cultural portraiture, and personal essay. Moving between documentary observation and reflective commentary, the episodes combine interviews, local history, and Welles’s distinctive narration into a series that functions as both travel film and cinematic essay.
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Orson Welles
Host: Orson Welles · 7 eps
Chris Wertenbaker
Self — Guitarist · 2 eps
Art Buchwald
Self — Newspaper Columnist · 1 ep
Lael Wertenbaker
Self — Author · 1 ep
Raymond Duncan
Self — Artist · 1 ep
Jean-Paul Sartre
Self — Author · 1 ep
Simone de Beauvoir
Self — Author · 1 ep
Beñat Toyos
Self · 1 ep
Le père Ibarburu
Self · 1 ep
Ferdinand Lop
Self — Politician · 1 ep
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Eddie Constantine
Man in Nightclub (archive footage) · 1 ep
Juliette Gréco
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Kenneth Tynan
Self — Host · 1 ep
Elaine Dundy
Self — Host · 1 ep
Angel Parada
Self — Bullfighter · 1 ep
Manolo Vázquez
Self — Bullfighter · 1 ep
Manolete
Self — Bullfighter (archive footage) · 1 ep
Clovis Dominici
Self · 1 ep
Gustave Dominici
Self · 1 ep
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