Joseph Cotten

ActorWriter May 15 (died age 88) Petersburg, Virginia, USA 1937–2018 (81 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Citizen Kane

Jedediah Leland

Film

The Third Man

Holly Martins

Film

Touch of Evil

Coroner (uncredited)

Film

Shadow of a Doubt

Uncle Charlie

Film

Soylent Green

William R. Simonson

Film

Gaslight

Brian Cameron

Film

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Henry L. Stimson

Film

The Magnificent Ambersons

Eugene Morgan

Filmography

Acting (136)

Movies (104)

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

2000

as Self

7.0

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991

as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)

5.7

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

as (archive footage)

Delusion

as Ivar Langrock

The Survivor

as Priest

Heaven's Gate

as The Reverend Doctor

The Hearse

as Walter Prichard

Casino

as Ed Booker

Concorde Affair

as Milland

Island of the Fishmen

1979

as Prof. Ernest Marvin

5.6

Guyana: Crime of the Century

1979

as Richard Gable

4.8

Churchill and the Generals

1979

as Gen. George C. Marshall

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

1979

as Self

Last In, First Out

as Foster Johnson

The Perfect Crime

as Sir Arthur Dundee

Caravans

as Crandall

Return to Fantasy Island

1978

as Simon Grant

4.7

Airport '77

1977

as Nicholas St. Downs III

5.6

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977

as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State

6.4

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

1976

as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon

6.4

A Whisper in the Dark

1976

as The Professor

5.8

Mysteries of the Gods

1976

as Narrator

5.6

Expedition to Ararat

1976

as Self - Host - Narrator

Timber Tramps

1975

as Greedy sawmill mogul

Syndicate Sadists

1975

as Paternò

5.9

Soylent Green

1973

as William R. Simonson

F for Fake

as Self

A Delicate Balance

as Harry

Police Dog

as Narrator

The Devil's Daughter

as Judge Weatherby

The Screaming Woman

as George Tresvant

Baron Blood

as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker

The Scopone Game

as George

Doomsday Voyage

as Captain Jason

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

as Dr. Vesalius

City Beneath the Sea

as Dr. Ziegler

Lady Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein

5.4

Assault on the Wayne

1971

as Admiral

3.0

Do You Take This Stranger?

1971

as Dr. Robert Carson

5.0

Journey to Murder

1971

as Jeff Wheeler

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Henry L. Stimson

The Grasshopper

as Richard Morgan

Cutter's Trail

as General Spalding

Latitude Zero

as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie

5.8

The Lonely Profession

1969

as Martin Bannister

Petulia

as Mr. Danner

Gangsters '70

as Destil

White Comanche

as Sheriff Logan

Split Second to an Epitaph

1968

as Dr. Ben Stern

Petulia: The Uncommon Movie

1968

as Himself

Alexander The Great

as Antigonus

The Hellbenders

as Colonel Jonas

Jack of Diamonds

as Ace

Some May Live

as Colonel Woodward

Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Ace of Diamonds (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.5

The Oscar

1966

as Kenneth Regan

4.8

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

1966

as Jim

5.5

The Money Trap

1965

as Dr. Horace Van Tilden

5.0

The Great Sioux Massacre

1965

as Major Marcus A. Reno

4.2

The Tramplers

1965

as Temple Cordeen

5.9

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

as Drew Bayliss

The Last Sunset

as John Breckenridge

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self (uncredited)

The Angel Wore Red

as Hawthorne

Touch of Evil

as Coroner (uncredited)

7.8

From the Earth to the Moon

as Victor Barbicane

The Halliday Brand

as Daniel Halliday

The Edge of Innocence

1957

as Robert Rainey

The Bottom of the Bottle

1956

as Pat 'P.M.' Martin

5.1

The Killer Is Loose

1956

as Detective Sam Wagner

6.6

Special Delivery

1955

as John Adams

Niagara

as George Loomis

Egypt by Three

as Narrator

A Blueprint for Murder

1953

as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron

Untamed Frontier

as Kirk Denbow

The Steel Trap

as Jim Osborne

Othello

as Senator (uncredited)

Half Angel

as John Raymond Jr.

Peking Express

as Michael Bachlin

The Man with a Cloak

as Dupin

Two Flags West

as Col. Clay Tucker

Walk Softly, Stranger

as Chris Hale/Steve

September Affair

as David Lawrence

The Third Man

as Holly Martins

Beyond the Forest

as Doctor Louis Moline

Under Capricorn

as Sam Flusky

Portrait of Jennie

as Eben Adams

The Farmer's Daughter

1947

as Glenn Morley

6.9

Our American Heritage

1947

as Narrator

Duel in the Sun

as Jesse McCanles

Love Letters

as Allen Quinton

Gaslight

as Brian Cameron

Since You Went Away

as Lieutenant Tony Willett

I'll Be Seeing You

as Zachary Morgan

Shadow of a Doubt

as Uncle Charlie

Journey into Fear

as Howard Graham

Hers to Hold

as Bill Morley

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Eugene Morgan

Citizen Kane

as Jedediah Leland

Lydia

as Michael Fitzpatrick

6.5

Citizen Kane Trailer

1940

as himself/Jedediah Leland

Too Much Johnson

1938

as Augustus Billings

5.3

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

1937

4.3

Television (32)

Tales of the Unexpected

as Edward

Fantasy Island

as Simon Grant

The Love Boat

as Colonel Van Ryker

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Aspen

as Horton Paine

Origins of the Mafia

as The Envoy

The Rockford Files

1974

as Warner Jameson

7.6

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

1973

as Self

6.3

The Streets of San Francisco

V.I.P. Schaukel

as Self

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self (uncredited)

Ironside

Cimarron Strip

The Great Adventure

as Captain Meehan

Hollywood and the Stars

as Narrator

Dr. Kildare

as Charles Ladovan

Bus Stop

Checkmate

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

1960

as Mac McClay

6.2

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Dick Burlingame

77 Sunset Strip

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Kraft Music Hall

Suspicion

as Gregg Carey

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Ben Harper

Telephone Time

On Trial

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

as Charlie Oakley (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.8

General Electric Theater

as Paul Henty

Letter to Loretta

as Self - Guest Host

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

7.2

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

6.9

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Journey into Fear

1943

Screenplay

6.1