Orson Welles in the title role of "Citizen Kane," based on Hearst's life (Turner)

Production:

• Directed by Benjamin Ross  
• Produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott
• Written by Richard Ben Cramer, Thomas Lennon, John Logan
• Original music by John Altman 
• Cinematography by Mike Southon
• Film Editing by Alex Mackie  
• Production Design by Maria Djurkovic  
• Art Direction Lucinda Thomson  
• Set Decoration Tatiana Lund  
• Sound Recorded by Clive Derbyshire
• Visual Effects by Steven Begg

Cast:

Liev Schreiber, left, plays Orson Welles and John Malkovich plays the writer Herman Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (Stephen F. Morley/HBO)

• Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles
• James Cromwell as William Randolph Hearst
• Melanie Griffith as Marion Davies
• John Malkovich as Herman Mankiewicz
• Brenda Blethyn as Louella Parsons
• Roy Scheider as George Schaefer
• Liam Cunningham as Gregg Toland
• David Suchet as Louis B. Mayer
• Fiona Shaw as Hedda Hopper
• Anastasia Hille as Carole Lombard
• Roger Allam as Walt Disney
• Simeon Andrews as John Houseman
• Jay Benedict as Darryl Zanuck

Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles (Stephen F. Morley/HBO )

• Ron Berglas as David O. Selznick
• Sarah Franzl as Dorothy Comingore
• Aaron Keeling as Young Orson Welles
• Geoffrey Hutchings as Harry Cohn
• Olivier Pierre as Sam Goldwyn
• Adrian Schiller as Paul Stewart
• Kerry Shale as Bernard Herrmann
• Tim Woodward as Jack Warner
• Angus Wright as Joseph Cotten
• Lucy Cohu as Dolores Del Rio

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title RKO 281