Joseph Cotten

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-05-15 (89 years old)

Deathday

1994-02-06

Place of Birth

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

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).

Acting

1941

Citizen Kane

as Jedediah Leland

1942

1949

The Third Man

as Holly Martins

1958

Touch of Evil

as Coroner (uncredited)

1971

Lady Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein

1949

Under Capricorn

as Sam Flusky

1980

Heaven's Gate

as The Reverend Doctor

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Henry L. Stimson

1972

Baron Blood

as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker

1943

Journey into Fear

as Howard Graham

1944

I'll Be Seeing You

as Zachary Morgan

1943

Shadow of a Doubt

as Uncle Charlie

1952

The Steel Trap

as Jim Osborne

1953

A Blueprint for Murder

as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron

1977

Airport '77

as Nicholas St. Downs III

1973

Soylent Green

as William R. Simonson

1946

Duel in the Sun

as Jesse McCanles

1948

Portrait of Jennie

as Eben Adams

1957

The Halliday Brand

as Daniel Halliday

1979

Island of the Fishmen

as Prof. Ernest Marvin

1956

The Killer Is Loose

as Detective Sam Wagner

1944

Gaslight

as Brian Cameron

1979

1975

1949

Beyond the Forest

as Doctor Louis Moline

1978

Caravans

as Crandall

1944

Since You Went Away

as Lieutenant Tony Willett

1973

F for Fake

as Self

1947

The Farmer's Daughter

as Glenn Morley

1965

The Money Trap

as Dr. Horace Van Tilden

1958

From the Earth to the Moon

as Victor Barbicane

1973

1961

The Last Sunset

as John Breckenridge

1971

1970

The Grasshopper

as Richard Morgan

1968

White Comanche

as Sheriff Logan

1969

Latitude Zero

as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie

1971

City Beneath the Sea

as Dr. Ziegler

1953

Niagara

as George Loomis

1980

The Hearse

as Walter Prichard

1967

The Hellbenders

as Colonel Jonas

1950

September Affair

as David Lawrence

1941

Lydia

as Michael Fitzpatrick

1966

The Oscar

as Kenneth Regan

1972

1981

The Survivor

as Priest

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State

1980

Casino

as Ed Booker

1950

Walk Softly, Stranger

as Chris Hale aka Steve

1950

Two Flags West

as Col. Clay Tucker

1978

The Perfect Crime

as Sir Arthur Dundee

1973

The Devil's Daughter

as Judge Weatherby

1945

Love Letters

as Allen Quinton

1971

1956

The Bottom of the Bottle

as Pat 'P.M.' Martin

1951

Half Angel

as John Raymond Jr.

1991

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)

1972

The Screaming Woman

as George Tresvant

1965

The Tramplers

as Temple Cordeen

1968

Gangsters '70

as Destil

1976

A Whisper in the Dark

as The Professor

1960

The Angel Wore Red

as Hawthorne

1951

Peking Express

as Michael Bachlin

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Augustus Billings

1952

Untamed Frontier

as Kirk Denbow

1943

Hers to Hold

as Bill Morley

1976

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self (uncredited)

1947

2018

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

as Self (archive footage)

1978

Last In, First Out

as Foster Johnson

1968

1968

Petulia

as Mr. Danner

1978

1955

Special Delivery

as John Adams

1981

Delusion

as Ivar Langrock

1971

Do You Take This Stranger?

as Dr. Robert Carson

1975

Timber Tramps

as Greedy sawmill mogul

1971

Journey to Murder

as Jeff Wheeler

1967

Some May Live

as Colonel Woodward

1965

The Great Sioux Massacre

as Major Marcus A. Reno

1951

Othello

as Senator (uncredited)

1979

Concorde Affair

as Milland

1972

Doomsday Voyage

as Captain Jason

1979

Churchill and the Generals

as Gen. George C. Marshall

1957

The Edge of Innocence

as Robert Rainey

1953

Egypt by Three

as Narrator

1969

The Lonely Profession

as Martin Bannister

1968

1970

Cutter's Trail

as General Spalding

1976

1973

Police Dog

as Narrator

Production

1943

Journey into Fear

as Screenplay

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