Orson Welles had quite the prolific career as a filmmaker, actor, and all-around entertainer . Here are the reasons he's just the best.
He sent the public into a frenzy after a radio broadcast.
In 1938, Welles had to publicly apologize for making The War of the Worlds radio broadcast so believable that he caused widespread panic in his listeners.
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He knew how to insult celebrities.
Welles made several appearances at the Dean Martin roasts. He had a way of being witty, pretentious, and charming simultaneously:
"Thank you, Donald, for that well-meant but rather pedestrian introduction."
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He wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the greatest movie of all time...when he was 26 years old.
Citizen Kane is consistently ranked as the greatest movie of all time. He created this film when he was about 15 years younger than Ben Affleck is now. Yeah.
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He sat next to Hitler and found him boring.
Welles was seated next to Adolf Hitler when the Nazis were just a "comical minority of nuts that nobody took seriously at all ... he made so little impression on me that I can't remember a second of it. He had no personality whatsoever," Welles says.
That's how cool Orson Welles was — he could insult the most villainous main of the 20th century by calling him boring.
