There is a wealth of information available via the internet and numerous biographies etc about Orson Welles but i would like to try to compile some of the more interesting parts here. We may have different versions of the same story but i think it would be interesting all the same.

Some of my favourite Welles trivia is as follows:

1. During filming of Citizen Kane, Orson was dating legendary blues/jazz artist Billie Holliday.

2. Due to his hectic schedule and the impossible New York, Orson found it difficult to get across town until he discovered that there was no law stating that one had to be ill to travel in an ambulance. He hired them to convey him across town, sirens blaring.

3. Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of H.G Wells "War of the World" created mass panic when it was first aired as people believed that the broadcast was a genuine announcement of alien invasion. Stranger still is that Adolf Hitler described it as tasteless and he was, of course, a paragon of social graces.

He was of Scottish, Irish and German heritage.

Was George Lucas' first choice as the voice for Darth Vader, but he thought the voice would be too recognizable.

Was the subject of author Mary Pacios' book about the "Black Dahlia" murder in Los Angeles in 1947 (called the most gruesome in the city's history). Pacios claimed Welles was the unknown murderer who slaughtered struggling actress Elizabeth Short; however, the book was considered pure nonsense and debunked by many historians.

He made The Lady from Shanghai (1947) towards the end of his marriage to Rita Hayworth. They were constantly fighting at the time and (some say as a comeuppance to Hayworth) he made her cut off most of her long, luxurious red hair and dye it bright platinum blonde.

Frank Sinatra was the godfather of one of his daughters.

Ashes are buried inside an old well covered by flowers, within the rural property of retired bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez, Ronda, Malaga, Spain.

Hated working on The Transformers: The Movie (1986), where he voiced Unicron. When asked about the film, he not only couldn`t remember the name of his character, but he described the film as being "I play a big toy who attacks a bunch of smaller toys.".

Considered black and white to be "the actor`s best friend", feeling that it focused more on the actor`s expressions and feelings than on hair, eye or wardrobe color.