Elenco - Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Simon Callow
Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
Christopher Welles
Self - Orson's Oldest DaughterJoanne Hill Styles
Self - Orson's Classmate
Norman Lloyd
Self - Actor
Julie Taymor
Self - Stage and Film Director
Paolo Cherchi Usai
Self - G. Eastman House Curator
Peter Bogdanovich
Self - FilmmakerJames Naremore
Self - Writer and Film Scholar
Elvis Mitchell
Self - Film CriticJonathan Rosenbaum
Self - Film Critic
Henry Jaglom
Self - Filmmaker and Orson's Friend
Joseph McBride
Self - Welles' Biographer
Peter Brook
Self - Filmmaker
Walter Murch
Self - Film and Sound EditorEric Sherman
Self - Filmmaker
Costa-Gavras
Self - Filmmaker
Oja Kodar
Self - Actress and Orson's Companion
Buck Henry
Self - Actor
Richard Benjamin
Self - Filmmaker
Wolfgang Puck
Self - ChefStefan Drößler
Self - Film RestorerMichael Dawson
Self - Film Restorer
Paul Mazursky
Self - Filmmaker
Frank Marshall
Self - Filmmaker
Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage)
Micheál Mac Liammóir
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Ruth Ford
Self - Actress (archive footage)Norman Corwin
Self - Pioneer Radio Producer (archive footage)William Alland
Self - Actor (archive footage)Reggie Armour
Self - RKO Executive (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)William Randolph Hearst
Self - Press Tycoon (archive footage)
John Houseman
Self - Actor (archive footage)
William Friedkin
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Robert Wise
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Richard Wilson
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)