Where was Citizen Kane filmed?
1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles
Citizen Kane (1941) was filmed in San Diego and Malibu — 2 recorded filming locations in the United States. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
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Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Malibu
🇺🇸 United States
city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
San Diego
🇺🇸 United States
seat of San Diego County, California, United States; second-largest city in California
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 4 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Museum of Modern Art
🇺🇸 United States
art museum in Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Oheka Castle
🇺🇸 United States
mansion in Huntington, New York, USA
“Photographs of German-Jewish investment banker Otto Hermann Kahn's real-life estate Oheka Castle were used to portray the fictional Xanadu.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Balboa Park
🇺🇸 United States
historic park in San Diego, California
“Citizen Kane has scenes from Charles Kane's mansion "Xanadu" filmed at buildings in Balboa Park, with the San Diego Zoo standing in for Kane's private bestiary.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
San Diego Zoo
🇺🇸 United States
zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, United States
“The shots of the private zoo at Xanadu in Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane were filmed at the San Diego Zoo.” Wikipedia
Also shot in these places
- Inception 2010
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
- The Great Dictator 1940
- The Usual Suspects 1995
- Cast Away 2000
- The Fast and the Furious 2001
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 1992
- The Big Lebowski 1998
- Heat 1995
- How Green Was My Valley 1941
- Planet of the Apes 1968
- Easy Rider 1969
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Citizen Kane have?
2 places recorded on Wikidata, and 4 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across the United States.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Inception (2010), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), The Great Dictator (1940), The Usual Suspects (1995) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.