
Joseph Cotten
Born May 15, 1905 · Petersburg, Virginia, USA
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

Touch of Evil

Citizen Kane

The Third Man

Soylent Green

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Shadow of a Doubt

Heaven's Gate

Gaslight

Duel in the Sun

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

The Last Sunset

Petulia

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Airport '77

Niagara

The Magnificent Ambersons

Under Capricorn

Twilight's Last Gleaming

The Farmer's Daughter

Since You Went Away

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Baron Blood

Othello

Island of the Fishmen

The Oscar

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

F for Fake

White Comanche

Lady Frankenstein

Caravans

Two Flags West

The Money Trap

I'll Be Seeing You

City Beneath the Sea
TV Shows

Wagon Train

The Rockford Files

Dr. Kildare

The Virginian

Tales of the Unexpected

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Name of the Game

Fantasy Island

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

77 Sunset Strip

The Streets of San Francisco

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Ford Television Theatre

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Kraft Music Hall

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Telephone Time

It Takes a Thief

Checkmate

The Great Adventure

Cimarron Strip

Suspicion

Bus Stop

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Letter to Loretta

Journey to the Unknown

Origins of the Mafia

Hollywood and the Stars

General Electric Theater

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Aspen
More Movies

Portrait of Jennie

The Great Sioux Massacre

The Devil's Daughter

Syndicate Sadists

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

September Affair

A Blueprint for Murder

The Hellbenders

The Killer Is Loose

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

From the Earth to the Moon

The Tramplers

Half Angel

Assault on the Wayne

The Bottom of the Bottle

Love Letters

Guyana: Crime of the Century

Last In, First Out

The Angel Wore Red

Journey into Fear

Latitude Zero

The Edge of Innocence

The Man with a Cloak

Do You Take This Stranger?

The Hearse

Delusion

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

The Survivor

The Steel Trap

A Whisper in the Dark

The Perfect Crime

The Grasshopper

Peking Express

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

Walk Softly, Stranger

Split Second to an Epitaph

Petulia: The Uncommon Movie

Untamed Frontier

Beyond the Forest

The Screaming Woman

A Delicate Balance

Return to Fantasy Island

The Scopone Game

Lionpower from MGM

Churchill and the Generals

Lydia

Jack of Diamonds

Too Much Johnson

Cutter's Trail

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

The Halliday Brand

Alexander The Great

Timber Tramps

Special Delivery

Concorde Affair

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

Casino

The Green Fog

Mysteries of the Gods

The Lonely Profession

Hers to Hold

Gangsters '70

Journey to Murder

Some May Live

Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y.

Doomsday Voyage




