The role of the mysterious Harry Lime in The Third Man is played Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), a character that doesn’t appear in the film until nearly the end of the movie, but his sudden appearance and presence makes for a climatic final. Much as been said about Welles involvement in the making of the film, citing on the fact that he was well-known as a director, producer, writer, and actor in his own right. And the fact that he won an Academy Award eight years before for writing and Original Screenplay for Citizen Kane, and nominated for Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Citizen Kane. The versatile Welles often narrated numerous films like The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Duel in the Sun (1946), but he can also be seen as a confident actor in Jane Eyre (1943), The Stranger (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Macbeth (1948), The Third Man (1949), Othello (1952), Moby Dick (1956), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Trail (1962).
Welles had prior experience as a Broadway actor and writer, had his own radio show at The Mercury Theatre on the Air in New York in the 1930s, where he worked with Joseph Cotton, and created the …show more content…
Howard has had a long film career spanning over 40 years, often cast to play military men, spies, and distinguished gentlemen. Howard, a staged trained actor gained critical acclaimed in the film Brief Encounter (1945), and some of his most popular film included The Third Man (1949), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), with David Niven, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), with Marlon Brando and Richard Harris, Father Goose (1964), with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron, Von Ryan's Express (1965), Frank Sinatra, The Liquidator (1965), Rod Taylor and Jill St. John, Superman (1978), with Christopher Reeve, and Gandhi (1982), with Ben
Welles had prior experience as a Broadway actor and writer, had his own radio show at The Mercury Theatre on the Air in New York in the 1930s, where he worked with Joseph Cotton, and created the …show more content…
Howard has had a long film career spanning over 40 years, often cast to play military men, spies, and distinguished gentlemen. Howard, a staged trained actor gained critical acclaimed in the film Brief Encounter (1945), and some of his most popular film included The Third Man (1949), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), with David Niven, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), with Marlon Brando and Richard Harris, Father Goose (1964), with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron, Von Ryan's Express (1965), Frank Sinatra, The Liquidator (1965), Rod Taylor and Jill St. John, Superman (1978), with Christopher Reeve, and Gandhi (1982), with Ben