Series · Documentary
Around the World with Orson Welles (1955)Season 1
★ 7.1 · 8 votes1 season · 7 episodesDocumentary1955
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.
- Creator
- Orson Welles
- Writers
- Orson Welles
- Network
- ITV1
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- First aired
- October 7, 1955
- Status
- Ended
Cast
Orson WellesHost: Orson Welles- Chris WertenbakerSelf — Guitarist
- Art BuchwaldSelf — Newspaper Columnist
- Lael WertenbakerSelf — Author
- Raymond DuncanSelf — Artist
Jean-Paul SartreSelf — Author
Simone de BeauvoirSelf — Author- Beñat ToyosSelf
- Le père IbarburuSelf
- Ferdinand LopSelf — Politician
Jean CocteauSelf (archive footage)
Eddie ConstantineMan in Nightclub (archive footage)
Juliette GrécoSelf (archive footage)
Kenneth TynanSelf — Host- Elaine DundySelf — Host
- Angel ParadaSelf — Bullfighter
- Manolo VázquezSelf — Bullfighter
- ManoleteSelf — Bullfighter (archive footage)
- Clovis DominiciSelf
- Gustave DominiciSelf
Episodes
0/7 watched- Episode 1: Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries26 min · Oct 7, 1955
- Episode 2: Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque26 min · Oct 21, 1955
- Episode 3: Revisiting Vienna26 min · Nov 4, 1955
- Episode 4: Saint-Germain-des-Pres26 min · Nov 18, 1955
- Episode 5: London: The Queen's Pensioners26 min · Dec 2, 1955
- Episode 6: Spain: The Bullfight26 min · Dec 16, 1955
- Episode 7: France: The Tragedy of Lurs26 min · Apr 12, 2003
