| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Alice Henty | Crew | Production | Co-Producer |
 Chuck Workman | Crew | Directing | Director, Editor, Writer |
Judie Tallman | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Artist |
Patrick Cicero | Crew | Sound | Sound Editor |
Tom Hurwitz | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
Charles S. Cohen | Crew | Production | Producer |
John Sharaf | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
Michael Lisnet | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
Alice Murrell | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Artist |
Patrick Katz | Crew | Editing | Assistant Editor |
 Anthony Perkins | Cast | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
 Buck Henry | Cast | Actor | Self - Actor |
 Charlton Heston | Cast | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
Christopher Welles | Cast | Actress | Self - Orson's Oldest Daughter |
 Costa-Gavras | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker |
 Dennis Hopper | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
 Elvis Mitchell | Cast | Actor | Self - Film Critic |
Eric Sherman | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker |
 Frank Marshall | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker |
 François Mitterrand | Cast | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) |
 George Lucas | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
 Henry Jaglom | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker and Orson's Friend |
 Jeanne Moreau | Cast | Actress | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
 John Houseman | Cast | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
 John Huston | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
 Julie Taymor | Cast | Actress | Self - Stage and Film Director |
 Martin Scorsese | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
Norman Corwin | Cast | Actor | Self - Pioneer Radio Producer (archive footage) |
 Norman Lloyd | Cast | Actor | Self - Actor |
 Oja Kodar | Cast | Actress | Self - Actress and Orson's Companion |
 Orson Welles | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker / Various Roles (archive footage) |
 Pandro S. Berman | Cast | Actor | Self - Producer (archive footage) |
 Paul Mazursky | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker |
 Peter Bogdanovich | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker |
 Peter Brook | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker |
Peter Viertel | Cast | Actor | Self - Writer and Orson's Friend (archive footage) |
 Richard Benjamin | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker |
 Richard Linklater | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
Richard Wilson | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
 Robert Wise | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
 Ruth Ford | Cast | Actress | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
 Simon Callow | Cast | Actor | Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer |
 Steven Spielberg | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
 Suzanne Cloutier | Cast | Actress | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
 Sydney Pollack | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
 Walter Murch | Cast | Actor | Self - Film and Sound Editor |
 William Alland | Cast | Self - Actor (archive footage) | |
 William Friedkin | Cast | Actor | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
William Randolph Hearst | Cast | Self - Press Tycoon (archive footage) | |
 Wolfgang Puck | Cast | Actor | Self - Chef |
Jonathan Rosenbaum | Cast | Self - Film Critic | |
Stefan Drößler | Cast | Actor | Self - Film Restorer |
 Joseph McBride | Cast | Actor | Self - Welles' Biographer |
 Micheál Mac Liammóir | Cast | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
 Beatrice Welles | Cast | Actress | Self - Orson's Youngest Daughter (archive footage) |
James Naremore | Cast | Self - Writer and Film Scholar | |
Michael Dawson | Cast | Self - Film Restorer | |
Joanne Hill Styles | Cast | Self - Orson's Classmate | |
Reggie Armour | Cast | Self - RKO Executive (archive footage) | |
 Paolo Cherchi Usai | Cast | Self - G. Eastman House Curator | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
