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
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Movie Involvements: 78
TV Involvements: 4
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
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Lionel
Citizen Kane
(1941) Jedediah Leland
The Rockford Files
(1974) Warner Jameson
The Third Man
(1949) Holly Martins
Touch of Evil
(1958) Coroner (uncredited)
Soylent Green
(1973) William R. Simonson
Shadow of a Doubt
(1943) Uncle Charlie Oakley
Niagara
(1953) George LoomisActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Priest | |
| Gen. George C. Marshall | ||
| Ivar Langrock | ||
| 1980 | The Reverend Doctor | |
| Walter Prichard | ||
| 1979 | Richard Gable | |
| 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 | ||
| Dr. Joseph Francis Condon | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1975 | Greedy sawmill mogul | |
| Himself | ||
| Himself | ||
| Paternò | ||
| 1974 | Warner Jameson | |
| 1973 | Harry | |
| William R. Simonson | ||
| Judge Weatherby | ||
| 1972 | George | |
| N/A | ||
| Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker | ||
| Captain Jason | ||
| George Tresvant | ||
| 1971 | Baron Frankenstein | |
| Dr. Vesalius | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Ziegler | ||
| Dr. Robert Carson | ||
| Admiral | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Richard Morgan | |
| Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War | ||
| 1969 | Martin Bannister | |
| Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie | ||
| 1968 | Sheriff Logan | |
| Mr. Danner | ||
| Destil | ||
| Antigonus | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1967 | As | |
| 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 | |
| 1963 | Narrator | |
| N/A | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| John Breckenridge | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| Hawthorne | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| 1958 | Victor Barbicane | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Coroner (uncredited) | ||
| 1957 | Robert Rainey | |
| Daniel Halliday | ||
| 1956 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Detective Sam Wagner | ||
| Pat 'P.M.' Martin | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| John Adams | ||
| 1953 | N/A | |
| Whitney 'Cam' Cameron | ||
| Narrator | ||
| N/A | ||
| 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 | |
| N/A | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1938 | Augustus Billings | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Screenplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |