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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-05-15 (119 years old)

Place of Birth

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

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

Acting

2018

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self (archive footage)

2000

1991

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)

1990

1981

The Survivor as Priest
Delusion as Ivar Langrock

1980

Heaven's Gate as The Reverend Doctor
The Hearse as Walter Prichard
Casino as Ed Booker

1979

Island of the Fishmen as Prof. Ernest Marvin
Concorde Affair as Milland
Churchill and the Generals as Gen. George C. Marshall

1978

Caravans as Crandall
The Perfect Crime as Sir Arthur Dundee
Last In, First Out as Foster Johnson

1977

Airport '77 as Nicholas St. Downs III
Twilight's Last Gleaming as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Aspen as Horton Paine
The Love Boat as Colonel Van Ryker

1976

A Whisper in the Dark as The Professor
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon

1975

Syndicate Sadists as Paternò
Timber Tramps as Greedy sawmill mogul

1974

The Rockford Files as Warner Jameson

1973

Soylent Green as William R. Simonson
F for Fake as Self
The Devil's Daughter as Judge Weatherby
Police Dog as Narrator

1972

Baron Blood as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
The Screaming Woman as George Tresvant
Doomsday Voyage as Captain Jason

1971

Lady Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
City Beneath the Sea as Dr. Ziegler
Do You Take This Stranger? as Dr. Robert Carson
Journey to Murder as Jeff Wheeler

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora! as Henry L. Stimson
The Grasshopper as Richard Morgan
Cutter's Trail as General Spalding

1969

Latitude Zero as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
The Lonely Profession as Martin Bannister

1968

White Comanche as Sheriff Logan
Gangsters '70 as Destil
Alexander The Great as Antigonus
Petulia as Mr. Danner

1967

The Hellbenders as Colonel Jonas
Some May Live as Colonel Woodward

1966

The Oscar as Kenneth Regan

1965

The Money Trap as Dr. Horace Van Tilden
The Tramplers as Temple Cordeen
The Great Sioux Massacre as Major Marcus A. Reno

1964

1963

The Great Adventure as Captain Meehan

1961

The Last Sunset as John Breckenridge
Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self (uncredited)
Dr. Kildare as Charles Ladovan

1960

The Angel Wore Red as Hawthorne

1959

1958

Touch of Evil as Coroner (uncredited)
From the Earth to the Moon as Victor Barbicane

1957

The Halliday Brand as Daniel Halliday
The Edge of Innocence as Robert Rainey
Suspicion as Gregg Carey

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
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as William Callew
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Courtney Masterson
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Charlie Oakley (archive footage) (uncredited)

1953

A Blueprint for Murder as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
Niagara as George Loomis
Egypt by Three as Narrator
Letter to Loretta as Self - Guest Host
General Electric Theater as Private Harris

1952

The Steel Trap as Jim Osborne
Untamed Frontier as Kirk Denbow

1951

Half Angel as John Raymond Jr.
Peking Express as Michael Bachlin
Othello as Senator (uncredited)

1950

September Affair as David Lawrence
Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale aka Steve
Two Flags West as Col. Clay Tucker
What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1949

The Third Man as Holly Martins
Under Capricorn as Sam Flusky
Beyond the Forest as Doctor Louis Moline

1948

Portrait of Jennie as Eben Adams

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
Gaslight as Brian Cameron
Since You Went Away as Lieutenant Tony Willett

1943

Journey into Fear as Howard Graham
Shadow of a Doubt as Uncle Charlie
Hers to Hold as Bill Morley

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons as Eugene Morgan

1941

Citizen Kane as Jedediah Leland
Lydia as Michael Fitzpatrick

1938

Too Much Johnson as Augustus Billings

1937

Writing

1943

Journey into Fear as Screenplay