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Known Movies: 62

Birthday: 1905-05-15

Day of Death: 1994-02-06

Place of Birth: Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.

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Joseph Cotten

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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).

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Acting
1981 The Survivor … Priest
1979 Screamers … Prof. Ernest Marvin
1979 Guyana Cult of the Damned … Richard Gable
1978 The Perfect Crime … Sir Arthur Dundee
1978 Caravans … Crandall
1977 Airport '77 … Nicholas St. Downs III
1976 A Whisper in the Dark … The Professor
1975 Syndicate Sadists … Paternò
1973 F for Fake … Special Participant
1973 Soylent Green … William R. Simonson
1973 A Delicate Balance … Harry
1973 The Devil's Daughter … Judge Weatherby
1972 The Screaming Woman … George Tresvant
1972 Baron Blood … Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
1972 The Scientific Cardplayer … George
1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes … Dr. Vesalius
1971 Lady Frankenstein … Baron Frankenstein
1971 City Beneath the Sea … Dr. Ziegler
1971 Assault on the Wayne … Admiral
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! … Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War
1969 Gangster '70 … Destil
1969 The Grasshopper … Richard Morgan
1969 Latitude Zero … Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
1968 White Comanche … Sheriff Logan
1967 Jack Of Diamonds … As
1967 The Hellbenders … Col. Jonas
1965 The Money Trap … Dr. Horace Van Tilden
1965 The Tramplers … Edith Wickett
1964 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte … Dr. Drew Bayliss
1961 The Last Sunset … John Breckenridge
1960 The Angel Wore Red … Hawthorne
1958 Touch of Evil … Coroner
1958 From the Earth to the Moon … Victor Barbicane
1957 The Halliday Brand … Daniel Halliday
1956 The Killer Is Loose … Detective Sam Wagner
1956 The Bottom of the Bottle … Pat 'P.M.' Martin
1953 Niagara … George Loomis
1953 A Blueprint for Murder … Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
1952 The Steel Trap … Jim Osborne
1952 Untamed Frontier … Kirk Denbow
1951 The Man with a Cloak … Dupin
1951 Half Angel … John Raymond Jr.
1950 September Affair … David Lawrence
1950 Two Flags West … Col. Clay Tucker
1950 Walk Softly, Stranger … Chris Hale aka Steve
1950 Peking Express … Michael Bachlin
1949 The Third Man … Holly Martins
1949 Beyond the Forest … Doctor Louis Moline
1949 Under Capricorn … Sam Flusky
1948 Portrait of Jennie … Eben Adams
1947 The Farmer's Daughter … Glenn Morley
1946 Duel in the Sun … Jesse McCanles
1945 Love Letters … Allen Quinton
1944 I'll Be Seeing You … Zachary Morgan
1944 Gaslight … Brian Cameron
1944 Since You Went Away … Lieutenant Tony Willett
1943 Shadow of a Doubt … Uncle Charlie Oakley
1943 Journey Into Fear … Howard Graham
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons … Eugene
1941 Lydia … Michael Fitzpatrick
1941 Citizen Kane … Jedediah Leland
1938 Too much Johnson
Writing
1943 Journey Into Fear … Screenplay