Simon Callow

Simon Callow probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, Orson Welles, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another – theatre, radio, film, television – even, at one point, ballet – in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities.

Simon Callow’s new book shows what it was like to be around Welles, and, with a precision rarely attempted before, what it was like to be him, answering the old riddle: 'Whatever happened to Orson Welles?'