Oja Kodar
Biography
Oja Kodar is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director whose career was closely tied to her work with Orson Welles. Born in Zagreb in 1941, she appeared in Welles's unfinished film The Deep, based on the novel Dead Calm, and then in his documentary F for Fake (1973), which she also helped write without credit and in which she played herself. She acted in The Other Side of the Wind, playing a character called the Indian or Pocahontas, and said she co-wrote its screenplay; the film was finally released in 2018. Kodar directed the feature Jaded (1989) and the war drama Vrijeme za... (1993), and she co-directed and co-wrote the documentary Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995). She also supervised the assembly of footage for Welles's Don Quixote, released in 1992.
85years old
Turns 86 on January 1in 51 days
- Born Zagreb
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Olga Palinkaš (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 45 years1973 to 2018
Every film, newest first
- 2018The Other Side of the WindIMDb rating 6.6
- 2018They'll Love Me When I'm DeadIMDb rating 7.4
- 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson WellesIMDb rating 6.9
- 1973F for FakeIMDb rating 7.7
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Behind the camera
Kodar made her feature directing debut with Jaded in 1989, producing it with Gary Graver, a cameraman on F for Fake, who also shot the film.
Behind the camera
Kodar took part in writing and directing Orson Welles: The One-Man Band, a 1995 German-French documentary. She also oversaw the gathering of unused footage that Welles had shot during his last 20 years of work.
Oja Kodar movies on Netflix
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Orson Welles directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Paul Stewart's page
Also two films together1 more actor
- Joseph McBrideThey'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) and Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
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