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