Citizen Kane Orson Welles

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Orson Welles is still know till this day as the director who one of the best movies of all time which was Citizen Kane. But not only was he a director but, he also was an American actor, producer, and writer. With all that he also has worked on the radio, film, and theatre. Orson was born May 6, 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Son of Richard Head Welles and Beatrice Ives Welles, growing up was hard on Orson his parents divorced and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father became an alcoholic after he made a ton of money inventing the bicycle lamp, after that he stopped working. Leaving his mother to try and support herself and her child working as a pianist during lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her oldest son Dickie was institutionalized

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