William Alland

William Alland was born on Mar 04, 1916 in USA. William Alland's big-screen debut came with Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles in 1941, strarring Jerry Thompson. William Alland is known for Macbeth directed by Orson Welles, Orson Welles stars as Macbeth and Jeanette Nolan as Lady Macbeth. The upcoming new movie William Alland plays is The Rare Breed which will be released on Feb 25, 1966.

Born in Delmar, DE, William Alland began his show-biz career as an actor with a semi-professional Baltimore troupe. Arriving in Manhattan with $25, "a paper suitcase" and the ambition to work on Broadway, he took courses and acted at the Henry Street Settlement House, where he met "boy wonder" Orson Welles, then on the eve of forming his Mercury Theatre group. Alland got in on the ground floor, acting with the Mercury Players on the New York stage and in radio (including the notorious Halloween 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast) before playing the (camera-shy) reporter Thompson in Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). During World War II Alland was a combat pilot (50 missions over the South Pacific); in the postwar years he was the Peabody Award-winning producer of radio's groundbreaking "Doorway to Life". He then turned movie producer, cranking out a series of features (mostly sci-fi films and Westerns) at Universal-International in the 1950s.