Editing Orson Welles

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'''George Orson Welles''' ([[May 6]], 1915 – [[October 10]], 1985) was the voice of [[Unicron]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.  He was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin and in 1938 he convinced a bunch of rubes that Martians were invading the Earth with his ''War of the Worlds'' radio show.  He also made some movie about [[wikipedia:Citizen Kane|some guy who wants a sled]].

It wasn't until 1985 that Mr. Welles finally fulfilled his true destiny by playing the planet-gobbling world [[Unicron]], although, sadly, Mr. Welles died before the movie was released in 1986.

{{quote|I spent the day playing a toy [in a movie about toys who] do horrible things to each other.|Orson Welles<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20070622/ca_pr_on_en/film_transformers_welles]</ref>}}

{{quote|I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed.|Orson Welles<ref>[http://www.slate.com/id/2169619/pagenum/2/ Slate.com: "Why the original Transformers movie is better than the new one" by John Swansburg]</ref>}}

{{quote|The irony of [Welles] playing a planet-sized eating machine wasn't lost on anyone.|[[Michael McConnohie]]<ref>[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/60-astrominutes/michael_mcconnohie_3.html Cybertron Chronicle interview with Michael McConnohie]</ref>}}

==Notes==

*Apparently, Mr. Welles was tough to work with. He didn't take voice direction very well, and  his first viewing of the script was on the day he came in to record his lines.
* Then again, [[Michael Bell]] joked that [[Wally Burr]] was so hard to work with that it contributed to Welles's death.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/ Orson Welles at the Internet Movie Database]
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3587 Find-A-Grave]
*[http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?surname=Welles&given=Orson California Death Records]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE Orson Welles's finest moment]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5LkDNu8bVU Orson Welles's even finer moment]

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