Actor
Joseph Cotten
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
Acting
2018 -- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage)
2000 -- Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film | Self
1991 -- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)
1990 -- Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage)
1981 -- The Survivor | Priest
1981 -- Delusion | Ivar Langrock
1980 -- Heaven's Gate | The Reverend Doctor
1980 -- Casino | Ed Booker
1980 -- The Hearse | Walter Prichard
1979 -- Churchill and the Generals | Gen. George C. Marshall
1979 -- Guyana: Crime of the Century | Richard Gable
1979 -- Concorde Affair | Milland
1979 -- Island of the Fishmen | Prof. Ernest Marvin
1978 -- The Perfect Crime | Sir Arthur Dundee
1978 -- Caravans | Crandall
1978 -- Last In, First Out | Foster Johnson
1978 -- Return to Fantasy Island | Simon Grant
1977 -- Airport '77 | Nicholas St. Downs III
1977 -- Twilight's Last Gleaming | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
1976 -- A Whisper in the Dark | The Professor
1976 -- Mysteries of the Gods | Narrator
1976 -- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
1975 -- Timber Tramps | Greedy sawmill mogul
1975 -- Syndicate Sadists | Paternò
1973 -- A Delicate Balance | Harry
1973 -- F for Fake | Self
1973 -- Soylent Green | William R. Simonson
1973 -- The Devil's Daughter | Judge Weatherby
1973 -- Police Dog | Narrator
1972 -- The Scopone Game | George
1972 -- Baron Blood | Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
1972 -- Doomsday Voyage | Captain Jason
1972 -- The Screaming Woman | George Tresvant
1971 -- Lady Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein
1971 -- City Beneath the Sea | Dr. Ziegler
1971 -- The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Vesalius
1971 -- Do You Take This Stranger? | Dr. Robert Carson
1971 -- Assault on the Wayne | Admiral
1971 -- Journey to Murder | Jeff Wheeler
1970 -- The Grasshopper | Richard Morgan
1970 -- Cutter's Trail | General Spalding
1970 -- Tora! Tora! Tora! | Henry L. Stimson
1969 -- The Lonely Profession | Martin Bannister
1969 -- Latitude Zero | Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
1968 -- Split Second to an Epitaph | Dr. Ben Stern
1968 -- White Comanche | Sheriff Logan
1968 -- Petulia | Mr. Danner
1968 -- Gangsters '70 | Destil
1968 -- Alexander The Great | Antigonus
1968 -- Petulia: The Uncommon Movie | Himself
1967 -- Jack of Diamonds | Ace
1967 -- The Hellbenders | Colonel Jonas
1967 -- Some May Live | Colonel Woodward
1966 -- Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Jim
1966 -- The Oscar | Kenneth Regan
1965 -- The Tramplers | Temple Cordeen
1965 -- The Money Trap | Dr. Horace Van Tilden
1965 -- The Great Sioux Massacre | Major Marcus A. Reno
1964 -- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Drew Bayliss
1961 -- Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited)
1961 -- The Last Sunset | John Breckenridge
1960 -- The Angel Wore Red | Hawthorne
1958 -- From the Earth to the Moon | Victor Barbicane
1958 -- Touch of Evil | Coroner (uncredited)
1957 -- The Edge of Innocence | Robert Rainey
1957 -- The Halliday Brand | Daniel Halliday
1956 -- The Killer Is Loose | Detective Sam Wagner
1956 -- The Bottom of the Bottle | Pat 'P.M.' Martin
1955 -- Special Delivery | John Adams
1953 -- A Blueprint for Murder | Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
1953 -- Egypt by Three | Narrator
1953 -- Niagara | George Loomis
1952 -- The Steel Trap | Jim Osborne
1952 -- Untamed Frontier | Kirk Denbow
1951 -- Othello | Senator (uncredited)
1951 -- The Man with a Cloak | Dupin
1951 -- Peking Express | Michael Bachlin
1951 -- Half Angel | John Raymond Jr.
1950 -- September Affair | David Lawrence
1950 -- Walk Softly, Stranger | Chris Hale aka Steve
1950 -- Two Flags West | Col. Clay Tucker
1949 -- Beyond the Forest | Doctor Louis Moline
1949 -- Under Capricorn | Sam Flusky
1949 -- The Third Man | Holly Martins
1948 -- Portrait of Jennie | Eben Adams
1947 -- Our American Heritage | Narrator
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 -- Since You Went Away | Lieutenant Tony Willett
1944 -- Gaslight | Brian Cameron
1943 -- Hers to Hold | Bill Morley
1943 -- Shadow of a Doubt | Uncle Charlie
1943 -- Journey into Fear | Howard Graham
1942 -- The Magnificent Ambersons | Eugene Morgan
1941 -- Lydia | Michael Fitzpatrick
1941 -- Citizen Kane | Jedediah Leland
1938 -- Too Much Johnson | Augustus Billings
1937 -- Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. |
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