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:
- 96
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y. 1937-12-31
- 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 | 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 | Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage) | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | Delusion | Ivar Langrock | 1981-01-23 |
| Movie | The Survivor | Priest | 1981-07-09 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | The Reverend Doctor | 1980-11-19 |
| Movie | The Hearse | Walter Prichard | 1980-06-01 |
| Movie | Island of the Fishmen | Prof. Ernest Marvin | 1979-01-18 |
| Movie | Concorde Affair | Milland | 1979-03-23 |
| Movie | Churchill and the Generals | Gen. George C. Marshall | 1979-09-23 |
| Movie | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Richard Gable | 1979-09-20 |
| 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 |
| Series | Aspen | Horton Paine | 1977-11-05 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Do You Take This Stranger? | Dr. Robert Carson | 1971-01-18 |
| Movie | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Vesalius | 1971-05-18 |
| Movie | Assault on the Wayne | Admiral | 1971-01-12 |
| Movie | City Beneath the Sea | Dr. Ziegler | 1971-07-16 |
| Movie | Lady Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1971-10-22 |
| Movie | Cutter's Trail | General Spalding | 1970-02-10 |
| Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Henry L. Stimson | 1970-01-26 |
| Movie | The Grasshopper | Richard Morgan | 1970-05-27 |
| Movie | Latitude Zero | Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie | 1969-07-26 |
| Movie | The Lonely Profession | Martin Bannister | 1969-10-21 |
| Movie | Gangsters '70 | Destil | 1968-04-29 |
| Movie | Petulia | Mr. Danner | 1968-06-10 |
| Movie | Alexander The Great | Antigonus | 1968-01-26 |
| Movie | White Comanche | Sheriff Logan | 1968-06-21 |
| Movie | Split Second to an Epitaph | Dr. Ben Stern | 1968-09-26 |
| 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 | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Jim | 1966-11-24 |
| 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 Tramplers | Temple Cordeen | 1965-12-31 |
| Movie | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Drew Bayliss | 1964-12-15 |
| Movie | The Last Sunset | John Breckenridge | 1961-06-08 |
| Movie | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
| Movie | The Angel Wore Red | Hawthorne | 1960-04-14 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | Coroner (uncredited) | 1958-03-30 |
| 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 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 | Niagara | George Loomis | 1953-01-26 |
| Movie | Egypt by Three | Narrator | 1953-03-31 |
| 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 | Half Angel | John Raymond Jr. | 1951-05-05 |
| Movie | Othello | Senator (uncredited) | 1951-11-28 |
| Movie | Peking Express | Michael Bachlin | 1951-08-01 |
| Movie | The Man with a Cloak | Dupin | 1951-11-27 |
| 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 | Under Capricorn | Sam Flusky | 1949-09-08 |
| Movie | Beyond the Forest | Doctor Louis Moline | 1949-10-21 |
| 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 | Charlie Oakley | 1943-01-15 |
| 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 | Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y. | 1937-12-31 |