Joseph Cotten
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).
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- Born:
- May 15, 1905 In Petersburg, Virginia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 118
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. 1937-01-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie They'll Love Me When I'm Dead 2018-08-31
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-31 |
| Movie | Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film | Self | 2000-01-03 |
| Movie | Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage) | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | The Survivor | Priest | 1981-07-09 |
| Movie | Delusion | Ivar Langrock | 1981-01-23 |
| Movie | The Hearse | Walter Prichard | 1980-06-01 |
| Movie | Casino | Ed Booker | 1980-08-01 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | The Reverend Doctor | 1980-11-19 |
| Movie | Island of the Fishmen | Prof. Ernest Marvin | 1979-01-18 |
| Movie | Concorde Affair | Milland | 1979-03-23 |
| Series | Tales of the Unexpected | Lionel | 1979-03-24 |
| Movie | Churchill and the Generals | Gen. George C. Marshall | 1979-09-23 |
| Movie | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Richard Gable | 1979-09-20 |
| Movie | Last In, First Out | Foster Johnson | 1978-08-30 |
| Movie | The Perfect Crime | Sir Arthur Dundee | 1978-11-24 |
| Movie | Caravans | Crandall | 1978-11-02 |
| Series | The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown | 1977-01-30 |
| Movie | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State | 1977-02-09 |
| Series | Aspen | Horton Paine | 1977-11-05 |
| Movie | Airport '77 | Nicholas St. Downs III | 1977-03-11 |
| Movie | Mysteries of the Gods | Narrator | 1976-03-17 |
| Movie | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Dr. Joseph Francis Condon | 1976-02-26 |
| Movie | A Whisper in the Dark | The Professor | 1976-08-12 |
| Series | Origins of the Mafia | The Envoy | 1976-11-19 |
| Movie | Syndicate Sadists | Paternò | 1975-08-16 |
| Movie | Timber Tramps | Greedy sawmill mogul | 1975-12-31 |
| Series | The Rockford Files | Warner Jameson | 1974-09-13 |
| Movie | The Devil's Daughter | Judge Weatherby | 1973-01-09 |
| Movie | Soylent Green | William R. Simonson | 1973-04-18 |
| Movie | A Delicate Balance | Harry | 1973-11-12 |
| Movie | F for Fake | Self | 1973-09-01 |
| Movie | Doomsday Voyage | Captain Jason | 1972-02-01 |
| Movie | Baron Blood | Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker | 1972-02-25 |
| Movie | The Screaming Woman | George Tresvant | 1972-01-29 |
| Movie | The Scopone Game | George | 1972-08-28 |
| Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown | 1972-09-23 |
| Movie | Assault on the Wayne | Admiral | 1971-01-12 |
| Movie | Journey to Murder | Jeff Wheeler | 1971-01-01 |
| Movie | Do You Take This Stranger? | Dr. Robert Carson | 1971-01-18 |
| Movie | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Vesalius | 1971-04-01 |
| Movie | City Beneath the Sea | Dr. Ziegler | 1971-07-16 |
| Movie | Lady Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1971-10-22 |
| Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Henry L. Stimson | 1970-01-26 |
| Movie | Cutter's Trail | General Spalding | 1970-02-10 |
| Movie | The Grasshopper | Richard Morgan | 1970-05-27 |
| Movie | Latitude Zero | Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie | 1969-07-26 |
| Movie | Alexander The Great | Antigonus | 1968-01-26 |
| Movie | Gangsters '70 | Destil | 1968-04-29 |
| Series | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Unknown | 1968-01-22 |
| Movie | Petulia | Mr. Danner | 1968-06-10 |
| Movie | Split Second to an Epitaph | Dr. Ben Stern | 1968-09-26 |
| Movie | White Comanche | Sheriff Logan | 1968-06-21 |
| Movie | Some May Live | Colonel Woodward | 1967-01-01 |
| Movie | Lionpower from MGM | Self - Ace of Diamonds (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1967-01-01 |
| Movie | The Hellbenders | Colonel Jonas | 1967-02-02 |
| Series | Cimarron Strip | Unknown | 1967-09-07 |
| Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
| Movie | Jack of Diamonds | Ace | 1967-11-10 |
| Movie | The Oscar | Kenneth Regan | 1966-03-04 |
| Movie | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Jim | 1966-11-24 |
| Movie | The Tramplers | Temple Cordeen | 1965-12-31 |
| Movie | The Great Sioux Massacre | Major Marcus A. Reno | 1965-04-25 |
| Movie | The Money Trap | Dr. Horace Van Tilden | 1965-09-07 |
| Movie | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Drew Bayliss | 1964-12-16 |
| Series | The Great Adventure | Unknown | 1963-09-27 |
| Movie | The Last Sunset | John Breckenridge | 1961-06-08 |
| Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
| Series | Bus Stop | Unknown | 1961-10-01 |
| Movie | The Angel Wore Red | Hawthorne | 1960-04-14 |
| Series | Checkmate | Unknown | 1960-09-17 |
| Series | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Unknown | 1959-09-21 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | Coroner (uncredited) | 1958-03-30 |
| Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
| Series | 77 Sunset Strip | Unknown | 1958-10-10 |
| Series | Kraft Music Hall | Unknown | 1958-10-08 |
| Movie | From the Earth to the Moon | Victor Barbicane | 1958-11-26 |
| Movie | The Halliday Brand | Daniel Halliday | 1957-01-01 |
| Movie | The Edge of Innocence | Robert Rainey | 1957-10-31 |
| Movie | The Killer Is Loose | Detective Sam Wagner | 1956-02-03 |
| Movie | The Bottom of the Bottle | Pat 'P.M.' Martin | 1956-02-01 |
| Series | On Trial | 1956-09-14 | |
| Series | Telephone Time | Unknown | 1956-04-08 |
| Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
| Movie | Special Delivery | John Adams | 1955-04-07 |
| Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | Niagara | George Loomis | 1953-01-26 |
| Movie | A Blueprint for Murder | Whitney 'Cam' Cameron | 1953-07-24 |
| Series | Letter to Loretta | Unknown | 1953-09-20 |
| Movie | Untamed Frontier | Kirk Denbow | 1952-07-23 |
| Movie | The Steel Trap | Jim Osborne | 1952-11-12 |
| Movie | Half Angel | John Raymond Jr. | 1951-05-05 |
| Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Unknown | 1951-10-05 |
| Movie | Peking Express | Michael Bachlin | 1951-08-01 |
| Movie | Othello | Senator (uncredited) | 1951-11-28 |
| Movie | The Man with a Cloak | Dupin | 1951-11-27 |
| Movie | Walk Softly, Stranger | Chris Hale aka Steve | 1950-10-14 |
| Movie | Two Flags West | Col. Clay Tucker | 1950-10-12 |
| Movie | September Affair | David Lawrence | 1950-10-18 |
| Movie | The Third Man | Holly Martins | 1949-08-31 |
| Movie | Under Capricorn | Sam Flusky | 1949-09-08 |
| Movie | Beyond the Forest | Doctor Louis Moline | 1949-10-21 |
| Series | Ford Theatre | Unknown | 1948-10-17 |
| Movie | Portrait of Jennie | Eben Adams | 1948-12-25 |
| Movie | The Farmer's Daughter | Glenn Morley | 1947-03-26 |
| Movie | Duel in the Sun | Jesse McCanles | 1946-12-31 |
| Movie | Love Letters | Allen Quinton | 1945-10-26 |
| Movie | Gaslight | Brian Cameron | 1944-05-04 |
| Movie | I'll Be Seeing You | Zachary Morgan | 1944-12-31 |
| Movie | Since You Went Away | Lieutenant Tony Willett | 1944-06-30 |
| Movie | Journey into Fear | Howard Graham | 1943-01-07 |
| Movie | Hers to Hold | Bill Morley | 1943-07-16 |
| Movie | Shadow of a Doubt | Uncle Charlie | 1943-01-12 |
| Movie | The Magnificent Ambersons | Eugene Morgan | 1942-07-10 |
| Movie | Citizen Kane | Jedediah Leland | 1941-04-17 |
| Movie | Lydia | Michael Fitzpatrick | 1941-09-18 |
| Movie | Too Much Johnson | Augustus Billings | 1938-08-16 |
| Movie | Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. | 1937-01-01 |