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TV series · 1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

First aired 1 September 1973 Mystery / Drama TMDB ↗

Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is a British television anthology series produced by Anglia Television for the ITV network and broadcast between 1973 and 1974. The series presents standalone adaptations of classic mystery, crime, and supernatural stories drawn from literary sources including Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Balzac, Maugham, O. Henry, and others. Each episode is framed by original introductory and closing sequences performed by Orson Welles, who serves as the series’ host and sole recurring on-screen presence. These segments, written and directed by Welles (uncredited), function as stylized narrative framing devices rather than dramatic participation in the stories themselves. The dramatic content of each episode is performed by separate casts and directors, with no continuing characters or serialized narrative, establishing the series as a unified television anthology rather than a collection of standalone films.

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Daphne Heard
as Deborah Crabbe
69
André van Gyseghem
as Judge
67
Harry Andrews
as General Sanderson
61
Hugh Griffith
as The Man
61
Peter Cushing
as Count Gerard De Merret
60
Guy Deghy
as German Policeman
60
Orson Welles
as Self - Host
58
Anthony Sharp
as J.J. McGill
58
Rupert Davies
as Lemerie
57
Megs Jenkins
as Mrs. White
56
Donald Pleasence
as Cawser
53
Kevin Stoney
as Surgeon Day
52
Patrick Magee
as Sergeant Morris
51
Brewster Mason
as Richard Lumsden
51
Christopher Lee
as Arnaud
51
Alec McCowen
as James Addishaw
48
Milo O'Shea
as Father Crumlish
47
Richard Johnson
as Bruce Sexton
46
Ian Bannen
as Gregory Dean
45
Glyn Owen
as Det. Inspector Cumberland
45
Charles Gray
as Mikail Zigorin
45
James Grout
as Sgt. Fred Mullins
45
Shane Rimmer
as Police Sergeant Warren
44
Bill Maynard
as Detective Superintendent Marker
44
Kenneth Haigh
as Jorge Vega
42
Dana Wynter
as Marcia Loredo
42
Janice Rule
as Madame Freya
42
Claire Bloom
as Sheila Pennell
42
Ian Holm
as Charles Stubbs
41
Joan Collins
as Jane Blake
40
Anton Rodgers
as Edmund Blake
40
Dinsdale Landen
as Simon Degarmo
40
Dean Stockwell
as Jerry Norton
37
Shirley Knight
as Margot Brenner
37
Victor Buono
as Sam Adelbert
35
Clarence Williams III
as John Cambridge
34
David Birney
as Harry Langley
34
Susannah York
as Countess Josephine
34
Jennie Linden
as Alice Stubbs
33
Michael Gambon
as Major Rolfe
32
Jeremy Clyde
as Major Frank Bruce
32
Paul Antrim
as Paul
29
Philip Jackson
as Carson
25
Ralph Arliss
as Priest
25
Michael Kitchen
as Herbert White
24
Sharon Maughan
as Carol
22
Jane Seymour
as Veronique d' Aubray
22
Edward Albert
as Faulkner
22
Phil Davis
as Johnny Sheeham
20
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