Joseph Cotten

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1905-05-15

Deathday 1994-02-06 (88 years old)

Place of Birth Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Also Known As Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr., Джозеф Коттен, Joseph Cheshire Cotten

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).

Known For

Actor

2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Too Much Johnson

as Augustus Billings

1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)

1981
The Survivor

as Priest

1981
Delusion

as Ivar Langrock

1980
Heaven's Gate

as The Reverend Doctor

1980
Casino

as Ed Booker

1980
The Hearse

as Walter Prichard

1979
Churchill and the Generals

as Gen. George C. Marshall

1979
1979
Concorde Affair

as Milland

1979
Island of the Fishmen

as Prof. Ernest Marvin

1978
The Perfect Crime

as Sir Arthur Dundee

1978
Caravans

as Crandall

1978
Last In, First Out

as Foster Johnson

1978
1977
Airport '77

as Nicholas St. Downs III

1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State

1977
Aspen

as Horton Paine

1977
The Love Boat

as Colonel Van Ryker

1976
A Whisper in the Dark

as The Professor

1976
1976
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon

1976
1975
Timber Tramps

as Greedy sawmill mogul

1975
Syndicate Sadists

as Paternò

1974
The Rockford Files

as Warner Jameson

1973
1973
F for Fake

as Self

1973
Soylent Green

as William R. Simonson

1973
The Devil's Daughter

as Judge Weatherby

1973
Police Dog

as Narrator

1972
1972
Baron Blood

as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker

1972
Doomsday Voyage

as Captain Jason

1972
The Screaming Woman

as George Tresvant

1971
Lady Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein

1971
City Beneath the Sea

as Dr. Ziegler

1971
1971
Do You Take This Stranger?

as Dr. Robert Carson

1971
1971
Journey to Murder

as Jeff Wheeler

1971
1970
The Grasshopper

as Richard Morgan

1970
Cutter's Trail

as General Spalding

1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Henry L. Stimson

1969
The Lonely Profession

as Martin Bannister

1969
Latitude Zero

as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie

1968
1968
White Comanche

as Sheriff Logan

1968
Petulia

as Mr. Danner

1968
Gangsters '70

as Destil

1968
Alexander The Great

as Antigonus

1967
1967
The Hellbenders

as Colonel Jonas

1967
Some May Live

as Colonel Woodward

1966
The Oscar

as Kenneth Regan

1965
The Tramplers

as Temple Cordeen

1965
The Money Trap

as Dr. Horace Van Tilden

1965
The Great Sioux Massacre

as Major Marcus A. Reno

1964
1964
1963
1963
The Great Adventure

as Captain Meehan

1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self (uncredited)

1961
The Last Sunset

as John Breckenridge

1961
Dr. Kildare

as Charles Ladovan

1960
The Angel Wore Red

as Hawthorne

1960
1959
1959
1958
From the Earth to the Moon

as Victor Barbicane

1958
Touch of Evil

as Coroner (uncredited)

1957
The Edge of Innocence

as Robert Rainey

1957
The Halliday Brand

as Daniel Halliday

1957
Suspicion

as Gregg Carey

1956
The Killer Is Loose

as Detective Sam Wagner

1956
The Bottom of the Bottle

as Pat 'P.M.' Martin

1955
Special Delivery

as John Adams

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as William Callew

1955
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Courtney Masterson

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Charlie Oakley (archive footage) (uncredited)

1953
A Blueprint for Murder

as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron

1953
Egypt by Three

as Narrator

1953
Niagara

as George Loomis

1953
Letter to Loretta

as Self - Guest Host

1953
1953
General Electric Theater

as Private Harris

1952
The Steel Trap

as Jim Osborne

1952
Untamed Frontier

as Kirk Denbow

1951
Othello

as Senator (uncredited)

1951
Peking Express

as Michael Bachlin

1951
Half Angel

as John Raymond Jr.

1950
September Affair

as David Lawrence

1950
Walk Softly, Stranger

as Chris Hale aka Steve

1950
Two Flags West

as Col. Clay Tucker

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1949
Beyond the Forest

as Doctor Louis Moline

1949
Under Capricorn

as Sam Flusky

1949
The Third Man

as Holly Martins

1948
Portrait of Jennie

as Eben Adams

1947
1947
The Farmer's Daughter

as Glenn Morley

1946
Duel in the Sun

as Jesse McCanles

1945
Love Letters

as Allen Quinton

1944
I'll Be Seeing You

as Zachary Morgan

1944
Since You Went Away

as Lieutenant Tony Willett

1944
Gaslight

as Brian Cameron

1943
Hers to Hold

as Bill Morley

1943
Shadow of a Doubt

as Charlie Oakley

1943
Journey into Fear

as Howard Graham

1942
The Magnificent Ambersons

as Eugene Morgan

1941
Lydia

as Michael Fitzpatrick

1941
Citizen Kane

as Jedediah Leland

Writer

1943
Journey into Fear

as Screenplay