Actor Welles.

The answer

ORSON

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORSON answer page.

Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ORSON

Every other clue in this collection answered by ORSON, most used first.

• Director Welles - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
• Welles of "Citizen Kane" - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• "Citizen Kane" director Welles - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Bean or Welles - used 19 times, most recently in 2015
• Welles - used 14 times, most recently in 1995
• Welles or Bean - used 13 times, most recently in 2006
• Bean - used 10 times, most recently in 1975
• Actor Bean - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Mork's boss - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Welles of "The Third Man" - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• "Ender's Game" author ___ Scott Card - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Filmmaker Welles - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Touch of Evil" director Welles - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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