Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-05-15 (89 years old)
Deathday
1994-02-06
Place of Birth
Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Also known As
Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr.
Джозеф Коттен
Joseph Cheshire 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).
1941
as Jedediah Leland
1942
as Eugene Morgan
1949
as Holly Martins
1958
as Coroner (uncredited)
1971
as Baron Frankenstein
1964
as Drew Bayliss
1949
as Sam Flusky
1980
as The Reverend Doctor
1990
as (archive footage)
1970
as Henry L. Stimson
1972
as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
1943
as Howard Graham
1944
as Zachary Morgan
1943
as Uncle Charlie
1952
as Jim Osborne
1953
as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
1977
as Nicholas St. Downs III
1973
as William R. Simonson
1946
as Jesse McCanles
1948
as Eben Adams
1957
as Daniel Halliday
1979
as Prof. Ernest Marvin
1956
as Detective Sam Wagner
1944
as Brian Cameron
1979
as Richard Gable
1975
as Paternò
1949
as Doctor Louis Moline
1978
as Crandall
1944
as Lieutenant Tony Willett
1973
as Self
1947
as Glenn Morley
1965
as Dr. Horace Van Tilden
1958
as Victor Barbicane
1973
as Harry
1961
as John Breckenridge
1971
as Dr. Vesalius
1970
as Richard Morgan
1968
as Sheriff Logan
1969
as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
1971
as Dr. Ziegler
1953
as George Loomis
1980
as Walter Prichard
1951
as Dupin
1967
as Colonel Jonas
1950
as David Lawrence
1941
as Michael Fitzpatrick
1966
as Kenneth Regan
1972
as George
1981
as Priest
1977
as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
1980
as Ed Booker
1950
as Chris Hale aka Steve
1950
as Col. Clay Tucker
1978
as Sir Arthur Dundee
1973
as Judge Weatherby
1945
as Allen Quinton
1971
as Admiral
1956
as Pat 'P.M.' Martin
1967
as Ace
1951
as John Raymond Jr.
1991
as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)
1972
as George Tresvant
1965
as Temple Cordeen
1968
as Destil
1976
as The Professor
1960
as Hawthorne
1951
as Michael Bachlin
2013
as Augustus Billings
1952
as Kirk Denbow
1943
as Bill Morley
1976
as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
1961
as Self (uncredited)
1947
as Narrator
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1978
as Foster Johnson
1968
as Antigonus
1968
as Mr. Danner
1978
as Simon Grant
1955
as John Adams
1981
as Ivar Langrock
1971
as Dr. Robert Carson
1975
as Greedy sawmill mogul
1971
as Jeff Wheeler
1967
as Colonel Woodward
1965
as Major Marcus A. Reno
1951
as Senator (uncredited)
1979
as Milland
1966
1972
as Captain Jason
1979
as Gen. George C. Marshall
1957
as Robert Rainey
1953
as Narrator
1969
as Martin Bannister
1968
as Dr. Ben Stern
1970
as General Spalding
1976
as Narrator
1973
as Narrator
1968
as Himself
1943
as Screenplay
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