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  • @alechorseman thanks for posting ... any idea where is Part 2?

  • I....am UNICRON.

  • 2 people died in October 1985, him and the TPIR announcer, Johnny Olson.

  • @tpir1972 more than 2 people died this day but the the 2 famous people who died the same day was the great orson welles and the great Yul Brynner who was in the magnificent 7 and the king and i to name but a few

  • Was this interview before or after his death?

  • @JesusSaviorChrist ......what kind of question is that?

  • @JesusSaviorChrist Great question...

  • Fantastic final appearance. Might be true what they say about 'rallying right at your end' -- his previous interview (8 days prior to death) seems very muddled, confused, and possibly inebriated. All in all, I think 70 yrs was a pretty good run.

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  • What a great man.

  • One wonders had the morbid obesity he suffered from not been an issue how much longer the world would've had Mr. Wells on THIS side of the rainbow...

  • Wow... dead 2 hours later? Just shows to go you.

  • I wonder what Yul Brynner was doing on this day?

  • @incrediblehulkmovies Meeting his maker...

  • u wouldn't believe it. he looks fine here

  • WOW IS SO HARD 2 BELIEVE THAT HE DIED 2 HOURS LATER..HE LOOKS SOO HAPPY AND SOO HEALTHY...HE WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT HIS BIRTHDAY BEING 70 AND HE DIES 2 HOURS LATER...I WONDER IF HE LOVED GOD OR IF HE HAVE EVER PRAYED OR BELIEVED IN HIM

  • @spainoner So do I, bro. So many great people we'd (heck!) love to meet in heaven.

  • You know that both Orson Welles and George Carlin died at the same age. Crazy isn't it?

  • @98bigbutt You know that King David ruled in Jerusalem for 33yrs and Christ died at 33. And there's 33 columns in our spinal cord and 33 bones in our foot? Crazy isn't it?

  • @98bigbutt Carlin was 71 when he died.

  • He sounded so intelligent that it makes me sound like a Mexican Immigrant.

  • @98bigbutt Dumb comment...the richest man in the world is Mexican, Carlos Slim. Intelligence, in fact, has no correlation to place of birth, nor ancestral lineage.

  • @DabneyFountain,I wasn't referring to the criollos you moron.

  • despite directing pretentious schlock, he had a great voice, and was a great actor.

    i simply like edgar wright and kubrik much, much more as directors.

  • @dante224real1 yeah, but how about Citizen Kane?

  • @spanishprisoner it invented pretense. i thought the pacing was off, and its brilliance is in editing rather than direction. i was honestly bored by it the first few times through. my favorite movies are shaun of the dead, a clockwork orange, and pulp fiction if that gives you any weight on my opinion.

  • The Lady From Shanghai and Touch of Evil are basically the definitions of unpretentious. Pure film noir fun.

  • what a great guy, really.

  • Class act.

  • Merv had class. The Dick Cavett era of interviewers. Now they're all buffoons.

  • Legends like Mr. Wells are always fascinating to listen to. He was a genius

  • its mermaid man!

  • Hmmm... Merv gave Rita Hayworth's final interview before she died... then Orson's before he died... coincidence? Or poisoned water? hmmmmm

  • if he lost 5 stone he might have lived longer

  • I could listen to Orson talk for hours. The man just had such charisma.

  • rigor mortis was already kicking in around his forehead.

  • Watching this its hard to believe he only has a couple hundred minutes left. He seems so full of life. Sometimes, I guess, your time is just up, and that's it.

  • Hmmm, I didn't know Merv Griffin was still doing interviews in 1985.

  • Wonder what he would say about reality television?

  • Its sad this great man never got the attention that these pee' ons get today.

  • @staphinfection what?

    

  • @staphinfection What???

    

  • @staphinfection Why do you say that? What horrible things did he do?

  • Have to say that he doesn't look well, here.

    A great talent, and a tragedy that he wasn't fully recognised as such.

  • He looks so sad...

  • @giupieri nonesence

  • He died two hours later? What a gift that he was able to share his thoughts. Thanks for posting this.

  • One guy doesn't understand english, how to dislike this?

  • Just goes to show...we're here one moment...and gone the next. Life each moment as if it were your last.

  • @VintageRetroNeatStuf That's stupid, if I was in my last moment I'd do nothing, just listen to my favorite music or watch a favorite movie/show and relax. So by that logic I should do this for the rest of my life and never work?

  • @zalmanusa How would you know it was your last moment unless you were killing yourself?

  • I miss that great man

  • Riveting. I've forgotten how good Griffin could be with a guest like Welles. It's as if they've hunkered down at a quiet party somewhere. I had goosebumps for 2 minutes when they talked about Rita Hayworth.

  • Wikipedia says he died at October 10. This is somewhere around May 6, his birthday. Therefore, the info is completely made up.

  • @refuseit No, this was actually on October 10th. The references to his May 6th birthday are in past tense.

  • I FUCKIN' LOVE HIS VOICE!

  • Orson is so honest. He hit it on the head when he said luck is everything. I wish more successful people were as humble as him.

  • He certainly had an excellent voice!

  • here orson looks like a famous statue of socrates!

  • @ 0:46 "... a friend of mine, Ty Power, God rest him..."

    God would rest the great man himself just two hours later, such tragic irony.

  • I don't understand. Did he die just two hours after leaving that seat? Or two hours after the interview aired on TV.

  • @ZUPERCURTIS Check out the sub text -

    "Orson Walles talks with Merv Griffin. 1985. He died two hours after THE TAPING on (of) this interview at the age of 70 years old."

    - so yes he died two hours after this interview, not two hours after the airing - if this info is reliable, which I have no reason to assume isn't.

  • he was great as Unicron. "Behold, Galvatron!"

  • I think the info about him dying 2 hours after filming this made up. His last TV appearance was intro to Moonlighting episode, not this interview. Also he seems much to healthy in the interview, whereas during recording Transformers: The Movie voice (2-3 months before his death) he was moving on wheelchair and his dialogs sounded so fatigued that they had to be put through synthesizer.

  • @CyclopsPL The Merv Griffin interview was recorded after the Moonlighting episode intro, but shown before. He did in fact die just two hours after the Merv Griffin interview, and that's what Griffin meant when he said this was Welles' last appearance anywhere.

  • Merv was such an under rated interviewer . . .

  • Most intense eyes... can always pick Orson Welles out immediately in any scene from those eyes.

  • he seems so healthy wtf, I can't believe he died 2 hours later

  • Could have used another 20 years of this guy. Authenticity. Where is it in Hollywood? The world?

  • @waluigithecool2, Don't you recognize sarcasm when you read it?

  • Que pessoa fantástica!

  • @waluigithecool2, do you not know sarcasm when you read it?

  • Unicron!

  • Wow! He sounds just like Maurice LaMarche!

  • @Monkofmagnesia

    Maurice sounds like Orson... get your facts straight...

  • How did he die ?

  • @scabbard1597 Heart Attack.  October, 1985.

  • Strange how he is getting asked questions about his age and if he's enjoyed his life here...

  • There's much too much talk and not enough action in the world. No SHIT.

  • Merv Griffin passed away also...

  • @VelvetViolator

    Yeah, people tend to do that. 

  • @VelvetViolator Did somebody call the blowfly??

  • What a wonderful, wonderful man, a great man.

  • 100th like :)

  • 4:48 On Rita Hayworth "That's one of the dearest, sweetest women that ever lived" This man was all class.

  • @ElTuco84

    One of the great filmmakers ever AND got to sleep with Rita. Unfair. Just unfair.

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Ugh. If you have an respect for him, don't make sexual remarks about his ex-wife. He got to LOVE Rita. Sleeping with her isn't what their relationship was about, you shallow cretin.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    Ah, right, in the airy fairy universe of some people who fear and hate sex, love is something completely disconnected from it. Sex, after all, is bad because the Bible says so.

    Are you a Christian fuckwad or just a frigid woman whose never had good sex in your life?

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Well, aren't you well spoken with your assumptions and foaming-at-the-mouth, bigoted cursing! I didn't say a damn thing about sex or religion. Paranoid much? Are you afraid that Christians are hiding under your bed at night waiting to convert you?

    I'm talking about you being disrespectful toward his ex-wife. Get your panties out of your crack and don't get so defensive next time someone calls you out on your juvenile sexual fantasies of 80+ year old women.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    She's not an 80+ year old woman, you stupid cunt. She's a corpse, and I doubt I'd lust over her in her present state. When she was married to Welles, she was in her 20s. I'll lust over Rita Hayworth in her 20s all I fucking well want, and you can fuck off and die. That work for you?

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  • @Pizuzuzimmer Good, try to get technical in your defense. She's the corpse of an 80+ year old woman. Is that much better? You're just further proving how much of a weirdo you are. "I'll lust over Rita Hayworth in her 20s all I fucking well want..." Tee hee. My guess is you're accustom to lusting after unattainable women, eh? ;D 20s Rita doesn't even exist. Try going to a bar and meeting a real woman to dispose of your virginity. Improvements would be made.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    You know, if it came down to either screwing a Puritanical bitch like you or having my dick chopped off, I'd really have to think about it for a while. And if you're a male, then plug in "your hideous girlfriend" or "the caliber of harpy that you're interested in" for "a Puritanical bitch like you."

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Ha! Call me nasty little names because I put your ass in it's place using wit and humor. It only makes you look more vindictive and butt hurt than before. So a person, in order to POSSIBLY find your juvenile and disrespectful fantasies hilarious or wrong, must either be a bitch or a dude with an ugly girlfriend? Great deduction, Sherlock. We'll add egotism to your growing list of god-awful traits. No, the truth is, you're just too easy to disagree with, and too childish to let go.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    You wouldn't know wit or humor if they came up to you wearing t-shirts with their names emblazoned on them and introduced themselves. Just another whiny, illiterate, manly lesbian on the Internet who can't stand the fact that there are women who arouse the fascination of men, and that the vast majority of those women are not interested in munching rotten carpets.

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  • @Pizuzuzimmer The wit and humor is at your expense. As a biased victim, you wouldn't consider it funny, but I know it is. Why else would you be so hostile and butt hurt with me from the beginning when I did not insult you in the first place? But of course, because I think amounting the greatest value of Orson's relationship with Rita as sex is insulting to him, I am a lesbian. Wonderful, close-minded, frat boy, juvenile logic you have! "You disagreed with me? Lesbian! Lesbian! AHH!!" LMAO

  • @ColibriAnna08

    I know humor when I see it, whether it's pointed at me or not. You have zero grounds to flatter yourself, you cancerous cunt. You don't write well, you're not clever, you're not witty. Period. You're just a whiny bitch with an agenda. A fat cock in your mouth would solve all your problems.

  • @Pizuzuzimmer *yawn* My, you got boring fast. Sexual degradation and misogynist comments that are completely unprovoked. You brought feminism into this discussion when it had nothing to do with it. You insulted Orson, not Rita, in my eyes, and that's where I challenged you. All I can say is you must be a sexual deviant that hasn't touched a woman in years and prefers to attack them with garbage language to compensate for being rejected by the way. Oh, well. I expected it.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    In addition to being a meddling, self-righteous bitch, you're also among the world's dumbest people if you think Welles' interest in Rita had anything to do with your pathetic asexual attitude. "Sleeping with her isn't what their relationship was about"--one of the most patently retarded things ever written on YouTube. Right, he married her for her brain. If you believe that, it's no wonder you think you're witty and funny too.

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Meddling? This is a public thread. Not your personal life. Don't post comments if you're going to complain about the responses you get. Self-righteous? No, I actually respect Orson and have to tolerance for comments that would offend him. And I guess you suppose to know exactly why Orson was with her? No man marries for sex. You can have that without the ups and downs and pain of marriage. Obviously, you've never had a relationship in your life. Teehee xD! Again, expected.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    "No man marries for sex."  Another gem of mental retardation from CumstainedAnna. Men do nothing that isn't about sex. When you become an adult, you will perhaps be capable of starting to understand that. A man marries b/c he desires sexual exclusive ownership of an extraordinary female. If he wants to rut with worthless, physically unattractive sluts, say, like you, then, yes, by all means, he avoids marriage. And he probably uses duct tape over the mouth too.

  • (cont.) "Men do nothing that isn't about sex." LMAO! Wow. You mean you do nothing that isn't about sex? Every man thinks he knows how all other men think. A man does not need to get married to have sex. This is 21st century, babe, where plenty of willing girls can be found at a local bar (except for you obviously ;D). And what have you to say about the men who marry women who aren't as aesthetically pleasing? Nothing I'm sure.

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Seriously dude you think that he married her for sex? Obviously he loved her and still holds her in high regards today. If you think any man marries for sex you are pretentious and ignorance little cretin about anything having to do with love, sex, or couples. Marriage is hell and requires love and commitment. You don't have to get married to have sex, and no sex is worth all those years of effort... dude seriously find a girl, it's a bit pathetic what you think of marriage.

  • @NoelBlueheart

    You're as ignorant as the cunt. Of course a man doesn't marry for sex, full stop. Any useless, hideous cunt will serve for that. Some men would probably even fuck ColibriAnna if they got desperate enough for a lay, though large quantities of alcohol would certainly be necessary in preparation. Welles married Rita for the same reason any man would want to marry her--the sex is with RITA HAYWORTH, not any hideous cunt (e.g., ColibriAnna).

  • @NoelBlueheart

    Welles married her because, like all men, he wants his women all to himself, which cannot be had without marriage. He also wants to show other men how powerful he is by demonstrating that he has the most sexually desirable woman in the world. If this sounds like news to you, you probably need to spend some more time in the world.

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Haha! You are the most presumptuous, backwards, and delusional little boy. Are you God? How do you know why a man who died decades ago married a woman decades before he died? No, I don't need to spend more time in the world. All of this is in your head, bud, and is procreated from a sever lack of judgement or intelligence. You think men seriously marry for sex? Maybe that's why your shallow, virgin ass would marry, but it ain't reality. STFU

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  • @Pizuzuzimmer HAHAHA! Wow, you're just a bitter, unhappy, and relentlessly miserable dude aren't you? Death threats now. wow. I don't believe there is anything else I have to say. you proved your lack of maturity, brain cells, and compassion. you're just fucked and angry. Go jack off to Rita now please. Otherwise you're just going to get more butt hurt when we put your ass in it's place.

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  • (cont.) By the way, your reasoning is not original or offensive to me. It's predictable and recognizable behavior. According to any paranoid sexist that fears feminism is waiting around every corner, "lesbian" simply means "dares to critique my almighty man-logic", "not submissive enough to my views to turn me on", or (my favorite) "woman forced to mate with women out of manless desperation". Oh my, you are a riot ;D Thanks for giving me and my friends a good laugh.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    I'm sure the fat, smelly dyke coven is enjoying any attention they can get from a man. 

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Ha! No woman has any trouble getting attention from a man. Do women have books on "game" and how to pick up men? I don't think so. The sex-deprived loser here is you, cupcake, thus apparent by your paranoid assumption that this conversation was ever about Feminism (first you assumed Christianity LMAO) out a grudge against the opposite sex that so ignores you. Obviously, you hate lesbians because they don't want your ass. Case closed.

  • @ColibriAnna08

    Is the cunt still talking?

  • @Pizuzuzimmer Wishing suicide on others = miserable, unloved, lonely, bitter, and as intelligent as prehistoric frog shit. you just prove us both more right about you with each post buddy so keep it up

  • @NoelBlueheart That's great, now shut up. All of you.

  • @krakendude2 This is weeks old, you fucking moron. Why the hell are you telling two people to shut up when they've been shut up for nearly a month? You're the one in need of shutting his mouth for trying to give life to an old debate while simultaneously telling the debaters to be quiet. If you're trying to post negative comments to feel cool, the only one you're impressing is yourself.

  • Awesome guy, shit.

  • wow he seems so full of life in this interview =(

  • @JustinSuhr4 Well, if you take a close look, his face is very pale here. That implies low blood pressure and a lack of proper oxygen flow to the body. While he indeed acted lively, he was anything but. My understanding was that he didn't tell very many people of his poor health conditions because he didn't want to stir up a fuss.

  • @CCharmanderK yes I can see that, and I know very much at this time he was in very poor health, its just seeing him act this way and then knowing he died 2 hours later is just haunting and sad =(

  • What an eloquent human being.  R.I.P.

  • He lived a very full, very fulfilled life, we should all strive to do the same. Genius in motion.

  • @CamButler He led a full stomach.

  • @MrGrevy He's the only one who could hold a candle to Marlon Brando

  • @CamButler Interesting parallel. Hmm never thought of that before.

  • Good ol' Orson.

  • i actually think he's very likeable

  • It's Unicron!!!

  • Orson Welles was an extremely talented director, incredible actor and one of the most intelligent men have ever worked in the entertainment industry. His contributions to the industry are unmatched by any filmmaker (with the possible exception of Hitchcock) and he deserved more than what Hollywood offered him after Citizen Kane.

  • @BlobOnASideWalk

    Hollywood, and film industries across the pond, offered him plenty. A plethora of unfinished projects, unprofessional behavior, and a number of flops doomed his career. He was far more at fault in his shoddy career than anyone else. I really don't understand why people like you paint this man as some sort of tragic hero.

  • @ChainX I can't recall a movie after Citizen Kane that he had total creative control over...

  • @BlobOnASideWalk

    Very few directors ever have total creative control. I don't see your point.

  • @ChainX Orson Welles had total creative control and made one of the greatest films of all time. Then, every movie after, studios would ignore his notes, edit the film the way they wanted and destroy much of the film they cut. Orson Welles was almost never satisfied with his finished products. How is it his fault if his vision is ignored by studios?

  • The Interviewer is trying to act like a psychotherapeut no wonder Orson got stressed out and exhausted

  • His beard...is amazing

  • mmmmmmm hmmmm the french!

  • Brilliant man.

  • So Merv did Rita Hayworths and Orson Welles last public appearances, what are the odds of that

  • after you die your hair keeps growing so i wonder how long his beard grow...?

  • ma haaaaaaaa the french!

  • gone too soon

  • love orson .....we share the same birthday ...r.i.p. oh great one

  • @jhangirk - Mentioning the Beebster on any Youtube video? That's a paddlin'.

  • This what miss most about the decade and people like him: INTEGRITY, it was all there.

    Now we have Fucking little shit Bieber, Gaga & Twilight Fags, what talentless shits.

    RIP O.W. 1915 - 1985!

  • Orson had his mind together up until he went. What a man! thanks for posting this. i didnt know if i should watch it, am i being gross to want to watch this last interview???. after listening and seeing it , im very grateful this was posted.thanks

  • Orson had his mind together up until he went. What a man. thanks for posting this. i didnt know if i should watch it, am i being gross to want to watch this last interview???. after listening and seeing it , im very grateful this was posted.thanks

  • He finished the show, went home, changed into his bathrobe, sat down at his typewriter and died. What a loss. Hollywood never allowed him to use the genius he showed in "Citizen Kane".

  • Maybe he doesn't look any younger than 70, but he looks good for his age nonetheless. There's a difference between looking young for your age and merely aging well.

  • "I don't want to knock warthogs.. but..." Amazing Chap... too talented for Hollywood.

  • You too, could be two hours from The End. Live it up!

  • It's always fun to watch an interview with Orson Welles because he's smarter than... well, pretty much any celebrity.

  • It seems as if they both know he's going to die in the next 2 hours.

  • @TheDirectorofFoo I agree. It makes it somewhat ominous

  • In regard to Welles dying 2 hours after this video was shot -- there's a lot of talk in the interview about him having just celebrated his 70th birthday. That would've been in May 1985 and he didn't die until October. Maybe Merv meant that he died two hours after it aired?

  • What a sad sad life you'd have to lead to eat yourself to death.

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  • Amazing film maker and a gentleman with a witty sense of humor.

  • He was pretty good looking when he was about 30 years old. Its a shame him and rita didn't last :(

  • wow....emagine spending your last hours talking to this asshole,,,,,,

  • Nobody gets outta here alive. But some never live.

  • Rita Hayworth, whom Orson is fondly remembering, appeared on the Merv Griffin show on July 12 1971. Love to see it. Please.

  • sharp as a tack even up to the moment he died, hope I'm the same way.

  • Billy Wilder is the man...

  • "Ty Power - God rest him - Geo. Burns comes from another planet....not essentially a happy person.... joyful....Rita Hayworth...Billy Wilder....Harry Cohn...Marlene Dietrich...." a lover of good talent!

    Welles made his threescore and ten. Biblical! and the Voice of The Transformer!