Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
Citizen Kane (1941)
"Some called him a hero...others called him a heel."
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Overview
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Top Billed Cast
Joseph Cotten
Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore
Susan Alexander Kane
Ray Collins
Jim W. Gettys
George Coulouris
Walter Parks Thatcher
Agnes Moorehead
Mary Kane
Paul Stewart
Raymond
Ruth Warrick
Emily Norton Kane
Erskine Sanford
Herbert Carter
William Alland
Jerry Thompson/Narrator
Everett Sloane
Mr. Bernstein
Fortunio Bonanova
Signor Matiste
Gus Schilling
John
Philip Van Zandt
Mr. Rawlston
Georgia Backus
Bertha Anderson
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