Joseph Cotten

Personal Info

Birthday

May 15, 1905

Day of Death

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 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

The Love Boat

The Rockford Files

Dr. Kildare

Tales of the Unexpected

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Filmography

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