Joseph Cotten
Age: 88 | From: Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1905-05-15 01:42:25
Death: 1994-02-06 01:42:25
Aliases: Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr. , Джозеф Коттен
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 84
TV Involvements: 14
Most Famous Work
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).
Most Famous Work
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Charlie Oakley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Edward
The Rockford Files
(1974) Warner Jameson
Citizen Kane
(1941) Jedediah Leland
The Third Man
(1949) Holly Martins
Soylent Green
(1973) William R. Simonson
Touch of Evil
(1958) Coroner (uncredited)
Gaslight
(1944) Brian CameronActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Augustus Billings | |
| 1981 | Priest | |
| Gen. George C. Marshall | ||
| Ivar Langrock | ||
| 1980 | The Reverend Doctor | |
| Ed Booker | ||
| Walter Prichard | ||
| 1979 | Richard Gable | |
| Edward | ||
| Edward | ||
| Lionel | ||
| Milland | ||
| Prof. Ernest Marvin | ||
| 1978 | Sir Arthur Dundee | |
| Crandall | ||
| Foster Johnson | ||
| 1977 | Colonel Van Ryker | |
| Nicholas St. Downs III | ||
| Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1976 | The Envoy | |
| The Professor | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Dr. Joseph Francis Condon | ||
| Himself (archive footage) | ||
| 1975 | Greedy sawmill mogul | |
| Paternò | ||
| 1974 | Warner Jameson | |
| 1973 | Harry | |
| Himself | ||
| William R. Simonson | ||
| Self | ||
| Judge Weatherby | ||
| 1972 | George | |
| N/A | ||
| Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker | ||
| Captain Jason | ||
| George Tresvant | ||
| 1971 | Baron Frankenstein | |
| Dr. Vesalius | ||
| Self | ||
| Dr. Ziegler | ||
| Dr. Robert Carson | ||
| Admiral | ||
| 1970 | Richard Morgan | |
| General Spalding | ||
| Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War | ||
| 1969 | Martin Bannister | |
| Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie | ||
| 1968 | Sheriff Logan | |
| Dr. Ben Stern | ||
| Mr. Danner | ||
| Destil | ||
| Antigonus | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1967 | Ace | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Colonel Jonas | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | Jim | |
| Kenneth Regan | ||
| 1965 | Edith Wickett | |
| Dr. Horace Van Tilden | ||
| Major Marcus A. Reno | ||
| 1964 | Drew Bayliss | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1963 | Narrator | |
| N/A | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Charles Ladovan | ||
| John Breckenridge | ||
| 1960 | Mac McClay | |
| N/A | ||
| Hawthorne | ||
| 1959 | Charles Lawrence | |
| Dick Burlingame | ||
| 1958 | Victor Barbicane | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Coroner (uncredited) | ||
| 1957 | Robert Rainey | |
| Gregg Carey | ||
| Daniel Halliday | ||
| 1956 | Ben Harper | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Detective Sam Wagner | ||
| Pat 'P.M.' Martin | ||
| 1955 | Charlie Oakley (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| John Adams | ||
| 1954 | N/A | |
| 1953 | Self - Guest Host | |
| Whitney 'Cam' Cameron | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Private Harris | ||
| Captain | ||
| Paul Henty | ||
| George Loomis | ||
| 1952 | Jim Osborne | |
| Kirk Denbow | ||
| 1951 | Senator (uncredited) | |
| Dupin | ||
| N/A | ||
| Michael Bachlin | ||
| John Raymond Jr. | ||
| 1950 | David Lawrence | |
| Chris Hale aka Steve | ||
| Col. Clay Tucker | ||
| 1949 | Doctor Louis Moline | |
| Sam Flusky | ||
| Holly Martins | ||
| 1948 | Eben Adams | |
| 1947 | Glenn Morley | |
| 1946 | Jesse McCanles | |
| 1945 | Allen Quinton | |
| 1944 | Zachary Morgan | |
| Lieutenant Tony Willett | ||
| Brian Cameron | ||
| 1943 | Bill Morley | |
| Uncle Charlie Oakley | ||
| Howard Graham | ||
| 1942 | Eugene Morgan | |
| 1941 | Michael Fitzpatrick | |
| Jedediah Leland | ||
| 1940 | N/A | |
| 1937 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Screenplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |