Around the World with Orson Welles

Around the World with Orson Welles

Limited Series 1955 · 7 eps · ★ 7.1 · Documentary

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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.

Created by Orson Welles

Network: ITV1

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Orson Welles Host: Orson Welles
Chris Wertenbaker Self — Guitarist
Art Buchwald Self — Newspaper Columnist
Lael Wertenbaker Self — Author
Raymond Duncan Self — Artist
Jean-Paul Sartre Self — Author
Simone de Beauvoir Self — Author
Beñat Toyos Self
Le père Ibarburu Self
Ferdinand Lop Self — Politician
Jean Cocteau Self (archive footage)
Eddie Constantine Man in Nightclub (archive footage)

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