Orson Welles

Orson Welles was a legendary Hollywood actor and filmmaker who provided the narration for the teaser trailer and television advertisements for . Among his many works, he is perhaps best remembered for the acclaimed 1941 classic Citizen Kane. Robert Wise, the director of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, was the editor of this film. He is also remembered for his October 1938 radio presentation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, depicting a Martian invasion of Earth, delivered with such authenticity that many believed it to be an actual newscast of an alien landing.
==Film career==
Welles won an Academy Award in the Best Original Screenplay category for Citizen Kane, shared with Herman J. Mankiewicz, the father of writer Don M. Mankiewicz. Welles also received Academy Award nominations as Best Director and, as the film's producer, received the film's nomination as Best Picture. Citizen Kane was nominated for five additional Academy Awards, including a Best Film Editing nomination for Robert Wise.
Welles' next film, 1942's The Magnificent Ambersons, was also edited by Robert Wise and was nominated for Best Picture, among three other nominations. Welles' subsequent directorial efforts include The Stranger (1946), Mr. Arkardin (1955), and Touch of Evil (1958). He also starred or appeared in films like (1944, which he produced, and which featured John Abbott), (1949, which he co-wrote), (1956), (1957, written by Gene L. Coon, featuring Paul Fix and William Schallert), (1958, with Sarah Marshall), (1959, with Dean Stockwell and Peter Brocco), and (1966). In addition, he narrated a number of films, including 1961's King of Kings, which starred Jeffrey Hunter.
Later in his career, he had roles in such films as (1970, co-starring Christopher Plummer), Voyage of the Damned (1976, co-starring Malcolm McDowell and Nehemiah Persoff), (1979, also featuring Paul Williams), and (1982, with Edward Laurence Albert). His last two projects featured a number of other Star Trek performers: in (1986), Welles provided the voice of the evil, all-consuming planet Unicron while the likes of Michael Bell, Roger C. Carmel, Walker Edmiston, Clive Revill, Frank Welker, and Spock actor Leonard Nimoy voiced other characters; and in Someone to Love (1987), Welles made his final screen appearance opposite Original Series guest star Sally Kellerman.
Welles died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1985. He left behind a legacy of acclaimed films, as well as a number of unfinished projects.
==Deleted references==
In a deleted scene from the fourth season episode , Sal, guessing that the Na'kuhl seen by Archer at the end of was not an alien but the subject of an experiment, also mentioned stories he had heard about the Nazis developing futuristic weapons and said it sounds like something "that guy Orson Welles" would tell. When Archer correctly guessed that he was referring to The War of the Worlds, Sal admitted that he was one of the people who fled in terror, believing it to be real – though in light of what has happened since, he sometimes wished Martians had landed.
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