Orson Welles Should've Been In...

[Lemon Session]

I'm so mad that I got kicked off before I thought of it --

Goonies, in the role of the old lady

[JesseFromVegas]

Porky's.

[nec13]

Rocky V as George Washington Duke

[Lemon Session]

CHUD

[Sashamak]

Purple Rain.

[Jake S]

I want to brag about (sort of ) being the one that introduced this topic. It is shameless, I admit, but it has boosted my spirits in the way I did not know was possible.

I actually kept talking when I was hung up and mentioned Two-Lane Blacktop but I'm glad no one heard it, because it doesn't really make that much sense.

[buffcoat]

Purple Rain.

Winner!

[Kormod]

Scarface. If Al Pacino could play a Cuban, why not Orson Welles?

[cavorting with nudists]

For that matter, he could have done the Peter Sellers thing and starred in three separate roles in Touch of Evil: Quinlan, Vargas, and the Mercedes McCambridge part.

Or he could have taken Jackie Gleason's role in Smokey and the Bandit, but played Buford T. Justice like he played Hank Quinlan, that'd be awesome.

[MikefromHalifax]

Heartbeeps. He would play Serge, an wise French butler robot who teaches them about love.

[Crusherkc]

The Empire Strikes back as one of the generals Darth Vader kills ("why certainly Lord Vader will see it in his heart that I've erred and will, of course, forgive me if his forgiveness has been asked." spoken in Orson's breathy cadence). Or as a rebel commander in the ice fortress who has to run through the halls as they're evacuating.

[VealCutlet]

I think Orson would have been compelling as Gandhi.

There are too many Star Wars roles that appear to have been written with Orson Welles in mind.  From Jek Porkins to Jabba the Hutt...though I think he'd have been great as Grand Moff Tarkin.

[fletcher munson]

Friends With Benefits or The Breakfast Club

[fletcher munson]

in the Judd Nelson role

[Key Loser]

Logan's Run

as the old man living the capital building with all the cats