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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 15, 1905
Place of Birth:
Petersburg, Virginia, USA
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Joseph Cotten
Biography
Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He is associated with Orson Welles, leading to appearances in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay, and The Third Man (1949). He was a star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and The Third Man (1949).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Too Much Johnson | Augustus Billings |
| 2000 | Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film | Self |
| 1991 | Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Baron Frankenstein (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage) |
| 1981 | The Survivor | Priest |
| 1981 | Delusion | Ivar Langrock |
| 1980 | Heaven's Gate | The Reverend Doctor |
| 1980 | The Hearse | Walter Prichard |
| 1980 | Casino | Ed Booker |
| 1979 | Island of the Fishmen | Prof. Ernest Marvin |
| 1979 | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Richard Gable |
| 1979 | Concorde Affair | Milland |
| 1979 | Churchill and the Generals | Gen. George C. Marshall |
| 1978 | Caravans | Crandall |
| 1978 | The Perfect Crime | Sir Arthur Dundee |
| 1978 | Last In, First Out | Foster Johnson |
| 1978 | Return to Fantasy Island | Simon Grant |
| 1977 | Airport '77 | Nicholas St. Downs III |
| 1977 | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State |
| 1976 | A Whisper in the Dark | The Professor |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Dr. Joseph Francis Condon |
| 1976 | Mysteries of the Gods | Narrator |
| 1975 | Syndicate Sadists | Paternò |
| 1975 | Timber Tramps | Greedy sawmill mogul |
| 1973 | Soylent Green | William R. Simonson |
| 1973 | F for Fake | Self |
| 1973 | A Delicate Balance | Harry |
| 1973 | The Devil's Daughter | Judge Weatherby |
| 1973 | Police Dog | Narrator |
| 1972 | Baron Blood | Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker |
| 1972 | The Scopone Game | George |
| 1972 | The Screaming Woman | George Tresvant |
| 1972 | Doomsday Voyage | Captain Jason |
| 1971 | Lady Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein |
| 1971 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Vesalius |
| 1971 | City Beneath the Sea | Dr. Ziegler |
| 1971 | Assault on the Wayne | Admiral |
| 1971 | Do You Take This Stranger? | Dr. Robert Carson |
| 1971 | Journey to Murder | Jeff Wheeler |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Henry L. Stimson |
| 1970 | The Grasshopper | Richard Morgan |
| 1970 | Cutter's Trail | General Spalding |
| 1969 | Latitude Zero | Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie |
| 1969 | The Lonely Profession | Martin Bannister |
| 1968 | White Comanche | Sheriff Logan |
| 1968 | Gangsters '70 | Destil |
| 1968 | Alexander The Great | Antigonus |
| 1968 | Petulia | Mr. Danner |
| 1968 | Split Second to an Epitaph | Dr. Ben Stern |
| 1968 | Petulia: The Uncommon Movie | Himself |
| 1967 | The Hellbenders | Colonel Jonas |
| 1967 | Jack of Diamonds | Ace |
| 1967 | Some May Live | Colonel Woodward |
| 1966 | The Oscar | Kenneth Regan |
| 1966 | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Jim |
| 1965 | The Money Trap | Dr. Horace Van Tilden |
| 1965 | The Tramplers | Temple Cordeen |
| 1965 | The Great Sioux Massacre | Major Marcus A. Reno |
| 1964 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Drew Bayliss |
| 1961 | The Last Sunset | John Breckenridge |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited) |
| 1960 | The Angel Wore Red | Hawthorne |
| 1958 | Touch of Evil | Coroner (uncredited) |
| 1958 | From the Earth to the Moon | Victor Barbicane |
| 1957 | The Halliday Brand | Daniel Halliday |
| 1957 | The Edge of Innocence | Robert Rainey |
| 1956 | The Killer Is Loose | Detective Sam Wagner |
| 1956 | The Bottom of the Bottle | Pat 'P.M.' Martin |
| 1955 | Special Delivery | John Adams |
| 1953 | A Blueprint for Murder | Whitney 'Cam' Cameron |
| 1953 | Niagara | George Loomis |
| 1953 | Egypt by Three | Narrator |
| 1952 | The Steel Trap | Jim Osborne |
| 1952 | Untamed Frontier | Kirk Denbow |
| 1951 | The Man with a Cloak | Dupin |
| 1951 | Half Angel | John Raymond Jr. |
| 1951 | Peking Express | Michael Bachlin |
| 1951 | Othello | Senator (uncredited) |
| 1950 | September Affair | David Lawrence |
| 1950 | Walk Softly, Stranger | Chris Hale aka Steve |
| 1950 | Two Flags West | Col. Clay Tucker |
| 1949 | The Third Man | Holly Martins |
| 1949 | Under Capricorn | Sam Flusky |
| 1949 | Beyond the Forest | Doctor Louis Moline |
| 1948 | Portrait of Jennie | Eben Adams |
| 1947 | The Farmer's Daughter | Glenn Morley |
| 1947 | Our American Heritage | Narrator |
| 1946 | Duel in the Sun | Jesse McCanles |
| 1945 | Love Letters | Allen Quinton |
| 1944 | I'll Be Seeing You | Zachary Morgan |
| 1944 | Gaslight | Brian Cameron |
| 1944 | Since You Went Away | Lieutenant Tony Willett |
| 1943 | Journey into Fear | Howard Graham |
| 1943 | Shadow of a Doubt | Uncle Charlie |
| 1943 | Hers to Hold | Bill Morley |
| 1942 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Eugene Morgan |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | Jedediah Leland |
| 1941 | Lydia | Michael Fitzpatrick |
| 1937 | Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. |