Joseph Cotten
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-05-15
Day of Death
1994-02-06 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Petersburg, Virginia, USA
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
Acting
(2018)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Too Much Johnson
as Augustus Billings
(2000)
(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
(1981)
Delusion
as Ivar Langrock
(1980)
Heaven's Gate
as The Reverend Doctor
(1980)
The Hearse
as Walter Prichard
(1980)
Casino
as Ed Booker
(1979)
Island of the Fishmen
as Prof. Ernest Marvin
(1979)
Concorde Affair
as Milland
(1979)
(1979)
Churchill and the Generals
as Gen. George C. Marshall
(1979)
Guyana: Crime of the Century
as Richard Gable
(1978)
Caravans
as Crandall
(1978)
Return to Fantasy Island
as Simon Grant
(1978)
The Perfect Crime
as Sir Arthur Dundee
(1978)
Last In, First Out
as Foster Johnson
(1977)
Airport '77
as Nicholas St. Downs III
(1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
(1976)
Mysteries of the Gods
as Narrator
(1976)
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
(1976)
A Whisper in the Dark
as The Professor
(1975)
Syndicate Sadists
as Paternò
(1975)
Timber Tramps
as Greedy sawmill mogul
(1973)
Soylent Green
as William R. Simonson
(1973)
F for Fake
as Self
(1973)
A Delicate Balance
as Harry
(1973)
The Devil's Daughter
as Judge Weatherby
(1973)
Police Dog
as Narrator
(1972)
Baron Blood
as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
(1972)
The Scopone Game
as George
(1972)
The Screaming Woman
as George Tresvant
(1972)
Doomsday Voyage
as Captain Jason
(1971)
Lady Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
(1971)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
as Dr. Vesalius
(1971)
City Beneath the Sea
as Dr. Ziegler
(1971)
Assault on the Wayne
as Admiral
(1971)
Journey to Murder
as Jeff Wheeler
(1971)
Do You Take This Stranger?
as Dr. Robert Carson
(1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Henry L. Stimson
(1970)
The Grasshopper
as Richard Morgan
(1970)
Cutter's Trail
as General Spalding
(1969)
Latitude Zero
as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
(1969)
The Lonely Profession
as Martin Bannister
(1968)
White Comanche
as Sheriff Logan
(1968)
Petulia
as Mr. Danner
(1968)
Alexander The Great
as Antigonus
(1968)
Split Second to an Epitaph
as Dr. Ben Stern
(1968)
Gangsters '70
as Destil
(1968)
Petulia: The Uncommon Movie
as Himself
(1967)
The Hellbenders
as Colonel Jonas
(1967)
(1967)
Jack of Diamonds
as Ace
(1967)
Some May Live
as Colonel Woodward
(1966)
(1966)
The Oscar
as Kenneth Regan
(1965)
The Tramplers
as Temple Cordeen
(1965)
The Great Sioux Massacre
as Major Marcus A. Reno
(1965)
The Money Trap
as Dr. Horace Van Tilden
(1964)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Drew Bayliss
(1961)
The Last Sunset
as John Breckenridge
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (uncredited)
(1960)
The Angel Wore Red
as Hawthorne
(1958)
Touch of Evil
as Coroner (uncredited)
(1958)
From the Earth to the Moon
as Victor Barbicane
(1957)
The Halliday Brand
as Daniel Halliday
(1957)
The Edge of Innocence
as Robert Rainey
(1956)
The Killer Is Loose
as Detective Sam Wagner
(1956)
The Bottom of the Bottle
as Pat 'P.M.' Martin
(1955)
Special Delivery
as John Adams
(1953)
Niagara
as George Loomis
(1953)
A Blueprint for Murder
as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
(1953)
Egypt by Three
as Narrator
(1952)
Untamed Frontier
as Kirk Denbow
(1952)
The Steel Trap
as Jim Osborne
(1951)
Othello
as Senator (uncredited)
(1951)
The Man with a Cloak
as Dupin
(1951)
Half Angel
as John Raymond Jr.
(1951)
Peking Express
as Michael Bachlin
(1950)
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Chris Hale aka Steve
(1950)
Two Flags West
as Col. Clay Tucker
(1950)
September Affair
as David Lawrence
(1949)
The Third Man
as Holly Martins
(1949)
Under Capricorn
as Sam Flusky
(1949)
Beyond the Forest
as Doctor Louis Moline
(1948)
Portrait of Jennie
as Eben Adams
(1947)
The Farmer's Daughter
as Glenn Morley
(1947)
Our American Heritage
as Narrator
(1946)
Duel in the Sun
as Jesse McCanles
(1945)
Love Letters
as Allen Quinton
(1944)
Gaslight
as Brian Cameron
(1944)
I'll Be Seeing You
as Zachary Morgan
(1944)
Since You Went Away
as Lieutenant Tony Willett
(1943)
Shadow of a Doubt
as Uncle Charlie
(1943)
Journey into Fear
as Howard Graham
(1943)
Hers to Hold
as Bill Morley
(1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Eugene Morgan
(1941)
Citizen Kane
as Jedediah Leland
(1941)
Lydia
as Michael Fitzpatrick
(1937)
Crew
(1943)
Journey into Fear
Screenplay