Considered among the greatest filmmakers of all time, Orson Welles (1915-1985) came from a wealthy but troubled background and started acting and writing for both theater and the then-new medium of radio, inadvertently causing a nationwide panic with The War of the Worlds. He found his greatest fame at age 26, when he directed and co-wrote Citizen Kane, which received numerous Oscar nominations despite being suppressed by William Randolph Hearst, who believed it was an unflattering portrait of himself. His subsequent filmmaking career (which included The Lady From Shanghai and Touch of Evil) was dotted with controversy and clashes with studio heads, but critics and fellow filmmakers took great inspiration from his technical innovations.