Joseph Cotten
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Cotten, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- May 15, 1905 In Petersburg, Virginia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 82
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Citizen Kane 1941-04-17
- Latest Project:
- Movie Too Much Johnson 2013-10-09
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Too Much Johnson | Augustus Billings | 2013-10-09 |
| Movie | A Sense of Carol Reed | Holly Martins | 2006-11-07 |
| Movie | Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film | Self | 2000-01-03 |
| Movie | The House Where Death Lives | Ivar Langrock | 1981-01-23 |
| Movie | The Survivor | Priest | 1981-07-09 |
| Movie | The Hearse | Walter Prichard | 1980-06-01 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Richard Gable | 1979-09-20 |
| Movie | Churchill and the Generals | Gen. George C. Marshall | 1979-09-23 |
| Movie | Caravans | Crandall | 1978-11-02 |
| Movie | Last In, First Out | Foster Johnson | 1978-08-30 |
| Movie | The Perfect Crime | Sir Arthur Dundee | 1978-11-24 |
| Movie | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State | 1977-02-09 |
| Movie | Airport '77 | Nicholas St. Downs III | 1977-03-11 |
| Movie | 'F for Fake' Trailer | Self (archive footage) | 1976-01-01 |
| 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 | AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Orson Welles | Himself | 1975-06-10 |
| Movie | Timber Tramps | Greedy sawmill mogul | 1975-12-31 |
| Movie | The Devil's Daughter | Judge Weatherby | 1973-01-09 |
| Movie | Soylent Green | William R. Simonson | 1973-04-18 |
| Movie | F for Fake | Self | 1973-09-01 |
| Movie | A Delicate Balance | Harry | 1973-11-12 |
| Movie | The Screaming Woman | George Tresvant | 1972-01-29 |
| Movie | Baron Blood | Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker | 1972-02-25 |
| Movie | The Scopone Game | George | 1972-08-28 |
| Movie | Assault on the Wayne | Admiral | 1971-01-12 |
| Movie | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Vesalius | 1971-05-18 |
| Movie | Do You Take This Stranger? | Dr. Robert Carson | 1971-01-17 |
| 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, U.S. Secretary of War | 1970-01-26 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Petulia | Mr. Danner | 1968-06-10 |
| Movie | Some May Live | Colonel Woodward | 1967-01-01 |
| Movie | Jack of Diamonds | Ace | 1967-11-10 |
| Movie | The Hellbenders | Colonel Jonas | 1967-02-02 |
| Movie | The Oscar | Kenneth Regan | 1966-03-04 |
| Movie | The Tramplers | Edith Wickett | 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 | The Last Sunset | John Breckenridge | 1961-06-08 |
| Movie | The Angel Wore Red | Hawthorne | 1960-04-14 |
| Movie | From the Earth to the Moon | Victor Barbicane | 1958-11-26 |
| Movie | The Edge of Innocence | Robert Rainey | 1957-10-31 |
| Movie | The Halliday Brand | Daniel Halliday | 1957-01-01 |
| Movie | The Bottom of the Bottle | Pat 'P.M.' Martin | 1956-02-01 |
| Movie | The Killer is Loose | Detective Sam Wagner | 1956-02-03 |
| Movie | Special Delivery | John Adams | 1955-04-07 |
| Movie | A Blueprint for Murder | Whitney 'Cam' Cameron | 1953-07-24 |
| Movie | Untamed Frontier | Kirk Denbow | 1952-07-23 |
| Movie | The Steel Trap | Jim Osborne | 1952-11-12 |
| Movie | Peking Express | Michael Bachlin | 1951-08-01 |
| Movie | Half Angel | John Raymond Jr. | 1951-05-05 |
| Movie | The Man with a Cloak | Dupin | 1951-11-27 |
| Movie | Othello | Senator (uncredited) | 1951-11-28 |
| Movie | Two Flags West | Col. Clay Tucker | 1950-10-12 |
| Movie | Walk Softly, Stranger | Chris Hale aka Steve | 1950-10-14 |
| Movie | September Affair | David Lawrence | 1950-10-18 |
| Movie | The Third Man | Holly Martins | 1949-08-31 |
| Movie | Beyond the Forest | Doctor Louis Moline | 1949-10-21 |
| Movie | Under Capricorn | Sam Flusky | 1949-09-08 |
| 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 | Since You Went Away | Lieutenant Tony Willett | 1944-06-30 |
| Movie | I'll Be Seeing You | Zachary Morgan | 1944-12-31 |
| Movie | Journey into Fear | Howard Graham | 1943-01-07 |
| Movie | Hers to Hold | Bill Morley | 1943-07-16 |
| Movie | The Magnificent Ambersons | Eugene Morgan | 1942-07-10 |
| Movie | Citizen Kane | Jedediah Leland | 1941-04-17 |
| Movie | Lydia | Michael Fitzpatrick | 1941-09-18 |