Joseph Cotten
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Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr. (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).
Known for
Credits
The Third Man (1949)
as Holly Martins
Touch of Evil (1958)
as Coroner (uncredited)
Citizen Kane (1941)
as Jedediah Leland
Soylent Green (1973)
as William R. Simonson
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
as Charlie Oakley
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
as Henry L. Stimson
Heaven's Gate (1980)
as The Reverend Doctor
Gaslight (1944)
as Brian Cameron
Duel in the Sun (1946)
as Jesse McCanles
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
as Drew Bayliss
The Last Sunset (1961)
as John Breckenridge
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
as Dr. Vesalius
Petulia (1968)
as Mr. Danner
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
as Eugene Morgan
Airport '77 (1977)
as Nicholas St. Downs III
Under Capricorn (1949)
as Sam Flusky
Othello (1951)
as Senator (uncredited)
Niagara (1953)
as George Loomis
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Since You Went Away (1944)
as Tony Willett
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
as Eben Adams
The Oscar (1966)
as Kenneth Regan
Baron Blood (1972)
as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
Island of the Fishmen (1979)
as Prof. Ernest Marvin
City Beneath the Sea (1971)
as Dr. Ziegler
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
as Glenn Morley
F for Fake (1973)
as Self
The Killer Is Loose (1956)
as Detective Sam Wagner
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil's Daughter (1973)
as Judge Weatherby
Two Flags West (1950)
as Clay Tucker
White Comanche (1968)
as Sheriff Logan
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
Lady Frankenstein (1971)
as Baron Frankenstein
Caravans (1978)
as Crandall
The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)
as Major Marcus A. Reno
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
as Zachary Morgan
Syndicate Sadists (1975)
as Paternò
A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
The Money Trap (1965)
as Dr. Horace Van Tilden
The Perfect Crime (1978)
as Sir Arthur Dundee
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
as Dupin
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)
as Self (uncredited)
September Affair (1950)
as David Lawrence
The Tramplers (1965)
as Temple Cordeen
Half Angel (1951)
as John Raymond Jr.
The Hellbenders (1967)
as Colonel Jonas
The Hearse (1980)
as Walter Prichard
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
as Victor Barbicane
The Angel Wore Red (1960)
as Hawthorne
Assault on the Wayne (1971)
as Admiral
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
as Pat 'P.M.' Martin
Untamed Frontier (1952)
as Kirk Denbow
The Edge of Innocence (1957)
as Robert Rainey
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)
Journey into Fear (1943)
as Howard Graham
Split Second to an Epitaph (1968)
as Dr. Ben Stern
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
as Chris Hale/Steve
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman (1979)
as Self
Delusion (1981)
as Ivar Langrock
Last In, First Out (1978)
as Foster Johnson
Love Letters (1945)
as Allen Quinton
Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)
as Richard Gable
Cutter's Trail (1970)
as General Spalding
Peking Express (1951)
as Michael Bachlin
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Ace of Diamonds (archive footage) (uncredited)
Return to Fantasy Island (1978)
as Simon Grant
The Survivor (1981)
as Priest
Churchill and the Generals (1979)
as Gen. George C. Marshall
The Grasshopper (1970)
as Richard Morgan
The Scopone Game (1972)
as George
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film (2000)
as Self
A Whisper in the Dark (1976)
as The Professor
Petulia: The Uncommon Movie (1968)
as Self
Do You Take This Stranger? (1971)
as Dr. Robert Carson
Latitude Zero (1969)
as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
The Halliday Brand (1957)
as Daniel Halliday
Beyond the Forest (1949)
as Doctor Louis Moline
Jack of Diamonds (1967)
as Ace
The Steel Trap (1952)
as Jim Osborne
The Screaming Woman (1972)
as George Tresvant
Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1966)
as Jim
Too Much Johnson (2013)
as Augustus Billings (uncredited)
Lydia (1941)
as Michael Fitzpatrick
Concorde Affair (1979)
as Milland
A Delicate Balance (1973)
as Harry
Alexander The Great (1968)
as Antigonus
Egypt by Three (1953)
as Narrator
Special Delivery (1955)
as John Adams
Gangsters '70 (1968)
as Destil
The Green Fog (2018)
Actor
Casino (1980)
as Ed Booker
Mysteries of the Gods (1976)
as Narrator
Hers to Hold (1943)
as Bill Morley
Timber Tramps (1975)
as Greedy sawmill mogul
The Lonely Profession (1969)
as Martin Bannister
Journey to Murder (1971)
as Jeff Wheeler
Some May Live (1967)
as Colonel Woodward
Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. (1937)
Actor
Expedition to Ararat (1976)
as Self - Host - Narrator
Doomsday Voyage (1972)
as Captain Jason
Our American Heritage (1947)
as Narrator
Police Dog (1973)
as Narrator