Joseph Cotten
Birthday: 1905-05-15
Deathday: 1994-02-06
Birthplace: Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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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2013-10-09 | Too Much Johnson | Augustus Billings |
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1981-07-09 | The Survivor | Priest |
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1981-01-23 | Delusion | Ivar Langrock |
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1980-11-19 | Heaven's Gate | The Reverend Doctor |
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1980-08-01 | Casino | Ed Booker |
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1980-06-01 | The Hearse | Walter Prichard |
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1979-09-23 | Churchill and the Generals | Gen. George C. Marshall |
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1979-09-20 | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Richard Gable |
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1979-03-23 | Concorde Affair | Milland |
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1979-01-18 | Island of the Fishmen | Prof. Ernest Marvin |
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1978-11-24 | The Perfect Crime | Sir Arthur Dundee |
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1978-11-02 | Caravans | Crandall |
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1978-08-30 | Last In, First Out | Foster Johnson |
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1978-01-20 | Return to Fantasy Island | Simon Grant |
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1977-03-11 | Airport '77 | Nicholas St. Downs III |
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1977-02-09 | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State |
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1976-08-12 | A Whisper in the Dark | The Professor |
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1976-02-26 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Dr. Joseph Francis Condon |
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1975-12-31 | Timber Tramps | Greedy sawmill mogul |
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1975-08-16 | Syndicate Sadists | Paternò |
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1973-11-12 | A Delicate Balance | Harry |
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1973-04-18 | Soylent Green | William R. Simonson |
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1973-01-09 | The Devil's Daughter | Judge Weatherby |
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1972-08-28 | The Scopone Game | George |
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1972-02-25 | Baron Blood | Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker |
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1972-02-01 | Doomsday Voyage | Captain Jason |
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1972-01-29 | The Screaming Woman | George Tresvant |
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1971-10-22 | Lady Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein |
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1971-07-16 | City Beneath the Sea | Dr. Ziegler |
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1971-05-18 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Vesalius |
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1971-01-18 | Do You Take This Stranger? | Dr. Robert Carson |
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1971-01-12 | Assault on the Wayne | Admiral |
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1971-01-01 | Journey to Murder | Jeff Wheeler |
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1970-05-27 | The Grasshopper | Richard Morgan |
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1970-02-10 | Cutter's Trail | General Spalding |
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1970-01-26 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Henry L. Stimson |
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1969-10-21 | The Lonely Profession | Martin Bannister |
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1969-07-26 | Latitude Zero | Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie |
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1968-09-26 | Split Second to an Epitaph | Dr. Ben Stern |
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1968-06-21 | White Comanche | Sheriff Logan |
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1968-06-10 | Petulia | Mr. Danner |
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1968-04-29 | Gangsters '70 | Destil |
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1968-01-26 | Alexander The Great | Antigonus |
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1967-11-10 | Jack of Diamonds | Ace |
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1967-02-02 | The Hellbenders | Colonel Jonas |
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1967-01-01 | Some May Live | Colonel Woodward |
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1966-11-24 | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Jim |
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1966-03-04 | The Oscar | Kenneth Regan |
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1965-12-31 | The Tramplers | Temple Cordeen |
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1965-09-07 | The Money Trap | Dr. Horace Van Tilden |
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1965-04-25 | The Great Sioux Massacre | Major Marcus A. Reno |
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1964-12-15 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Drew Bayliss |
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1961-06-08 | The Last Sunset | John Breckenridge |
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1960-04-14 | The Angel Wore Red | Hawthorne |
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1958-11-26 | From the Earth to the Moon | Victor Barbicane |
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1958-03-30 | Touch of Evil | Coroner (uncredited) |
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1957-10-31 | The Edge of Innocence | Robert Rainey |
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1957-01-01 | The Halliday Brand | Daniel Halliday |
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1956-02-03 | The Killer Is Loose | Detective Sam Wagner |
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1956-02-01 | The Bottom of the Bottle | Pat 'P.M.' Martin |
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1955-04-07 | Special Delivery | John Adams |
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1953-07-24 | A Blueprint for Murder | Whitney 'Cam' Cameron |
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1953-01-26 | Niagara | George Loomis |
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1952-11-12 | The Steel Trap | Jim Osborne |
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1952-07-23 | Untamed Frontier | Kirk Denbow |
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1951-11-28 | Othello | Senator (uncredited) |
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1951-11-27 | The Man with a Cloak | Dupin |
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1951-08-01 | Peking Express | Michael Bachlin |
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1951-05-05 | Half Angel | John Raymond Jr. |
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1950-10-18 | September Affair | David Lawrence |
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1950-10-14 | Walk Softly, Stranger | Chris Hale aka Steve |
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1950-10-12 | Two Flags West | Col. Clay Tucker |
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1949-10-21 | Beyond the Forest | Doctor Louis Moline |
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1949-09-08 | Under Capricorn | Sam Flusky |
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1949-08-31 | The Third Man | Holly Martins |
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1948-12-25 | Portrait of Jennie | Eben Adams |
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1947-03-26 | The Farmer's Daughter | Glenn Morley |
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1946-12-31 | Duel in the Sun | Jesse McCanles |
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1945-10-26 | Love Letters | Allen Quinton |
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1944-12-31 | I'll Be Seeing You | Zachary Morgan |
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1944-06-30 | Since You Went Away | Lieutenant Tony Willett |
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1944-05-04 | Gaslight | Brian Cameron |
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1943-07-16 | Hers to Hold | Bill Morley |
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1943-01-15 | Shadow of a Doubt | Charlie Oakley |
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1943-01-07 | Journey into Fear | Howard Graham |
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1942-07-10 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Eugene Morgan |
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1941-09-18 | Lydia | Michael Fitzpatrick |
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1941-04-17 | Citizen Kane | Jedediah Leland |
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1937-01-01 | Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. |