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Joseph Cotten

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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Petersburg, Virginia, USA, 1905-05-15

Died: 1994-02-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1937	Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y.		43
2	1941	Citizen Kane	Jedediah Leland	80
3	1941	Lydia	Michael Fitzpatrick	65
4	1942	The Magnificent Ambersons	Eugene Morgan	73
5	1943	Journey into Fear	Howard Graham	60
6	1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Uncle Charlie	75
7	1943	Hers to Hold	Bill Morley	69
8	1944	Gaslight	Brian Cameron	75
9	1944	Since You Went Away	Lieutenant Tony Willett	65
10	1944	I'll Be Seeing You	Zachary Morgan	71
11	1945	Love Letters	Allen Quinton	64
12	1946	Duel in the Sun	Jesse McCanles	63
13	1947	The Farmer's Daughter	Glenn Morley	69
14	1947	Our American Heritage	Narrator	0
15	1948	Portrait of Jennie	Eben Adams	71
16	1949	The Third Man	Holly Martins	79
17	1949	Under Capricorn	Sam Flusky	61
18	1949	Beyond the Forest	Doctor Louis Moline	68
19	1950	Two Flags West	Col. Clay Tucker	62
20	1950	Walk Softly, Stranger	Chris Hale aka Steve	50
21	1950	September Affair	David Lawrence	60
22	1951	Half Angel	John Raymond Jr.	56
23	1951	Peking Express	Michael Bachlin	80
24	1951	The Man with a Cloak	Dupin	69
25	1951	Othello	Senator (uncredited)	73
26	1952	Untamed Frontier	Kirk Denbow	72
27	1952	The Steel Trap	Jim Osborne	64
28	1953	Niagara	George Loomis	68
29	1953	Egypt by Three	Narrator	60
30	1953	A Blueprint for Murder	Whitney 'Cam' Cameron	61
31	1955	Special Delivery	John Adams	0
32	1956	The Bottom of the Bottle	Pat 'P.M.' Martin	55
33	1956	The Killer Is Loose	Detective Sam Wagner	66
34	1957	The Halliday Brand	Daniel Halliday	61
35	1957	The Edge of Innocence	Robert Rainey	0
36	1958	Touch of Evil	Coroner (uncredited)	78
37	1958	From the Earth to the Moon	Victor Barbicane	52
38	1960	The Angel Wore Red	Hawthorne	53
39	1961	The Last Sunset	John Breckenridge	68
40	1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	Self (uncredited)	33
41	1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Drew Bayliss	73
42	1965	The Great Sioux Massacre	Major Marcus A. Reno	42
43	1965	The Money Trap	Dr. Horace Van Tilden	50
44	1965	The Tramplers	Temple Cordeen	59
45	1966	The Oscar	Kenneth Regan	51
46	1966	Brighty of the Grand Canyon	Jim	55
47	1967	Some May Live	Colonel Woodward	35
48	1967	The Hellbenders	Colonel Jonas	65
49	1967	Jack of Diamonds	Ace	42
50	1968	Petulia: The Uncommon Movie	Himself	0
51	1968	Alexander The Great	Antigonus	50
52	1968	Gangsters '70	Destil	70
53	1968	Petulia	Mr. Danner	59
54	1968	White Comanche	Sheriff Logan	46
55	1968	Split Second to an Epitaph	Dr. Ben Stern	0
56	1969	Latitude Zero	Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie	58
57	1969	The Lonely Profession	Martin Bannister	0
58	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Henry L. Stimson	71
59	1970	Cutter's Trail	General Spalding	75
60	1970	The Grasshopper	Richard Morgan	51
61	1971	Journey to Murder	Jeff Wheeler	0
62	1971	Assault on the Wayne	Admiral	30
63	1971	Do You Take This Stranger?	Dr. Robert Carson	50
64	1971	The Abominable Dr. Phibes	Dr. Vesalius	69
65	1971	City Beneath the Sea	Dr. Ziegler	41
66	1971	Lady Frankenstein	Baron Frankenstein	55
67	1972	The Screaming Woman	George Tresvant	67
68	1972	Doomsday Voyage	Captain Jason	0
69	1972	Baron Blood	Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker	62
70	1972	The Scopone Game	George	74
71	1973	Police Dog	Narrator	0
72	1973	The Devil's Daughter	Judge Weatherby	65
73	1973	Soylent Green	William R. Simonson	69
74	1973	F for Fake	Self	74
75	1973	A Delicate Balance	Harry	63
76	1975	Syndicate Sadists	Paternò	59
77	1975	Timber Tramps	Greedy sawmill mogul	0
78	1976	The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case	Dr. Joseph Francis Condon	64
79	1976	Mysteries of the Gods	Narrator	56
80	1976	A Whisper in the Dark	The Professor	60
81	1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State	64
82	1977	Airport '77	Nicholas St. Downs III	56
83	1978	Return to Fantasy Island	Simon Grant	47
84	1978	Last In, First Out	Foster Johnson	34
85	1978	Caravans	Crandall	53
86	1978	The Perfect Crime	Sir Arthur Dundee	53
87	1979	Island of the Fishmen	Prof. Ernest Marvin	56
88	1979	Concorde Affair	Milland	66
89	1979	Guyana: Crime of the Century	Richard Gable	48
90	1979	Churchill and the Generals	Gen. George C. Marshall	0
91	1980	The Hearse	Walter Prichard	53
92	1980	Casino	Ed Booker	100
93	1980	Heaven's Gate	The Reverend Doctor	68
94	1981	Delusion	Ivar Langrock	38
95	1981	The Survivor	Priest	52
96	1990	Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths	(archive footage)	57
97	1991	Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)	57
98	2000	Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film	Self	70
99	2013	Too Much Johnson	Augustus Billings	53
100	2018	They'll Love Me When I'm Dead	Self (archive footage)	71

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
3	1953	General Electric Theater	Paul Henty	63
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Captain	63
5	1953	General Electric Theater	Private Harris	63
6	1953	Letter to Loretta	Self - Guest Host	65
7	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	William Callew	77
8	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Tony Gould	77
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Courtney Masterson	77
10	1956	Telephone Time		63
11	1956	On Trial		50
12	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Ben Harper	55
13	1957	Suspicion	Gregg Carey	59
14	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		58
15	1958	Kraft Music Hall		47
16	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
17	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Dick Burlingame	63
18	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Charles Lawrence	63
19	1960	Checkmate		41
20	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Mac McClay	62
21	1961	Dr. Kildare	Charles Ladovan	55
22	1961	Bus Stop		0
23	1963	The Great Adventure	Captain Meehan	0
24	1963	Hollywood and the Stars	Narrator	60
25	1967	Ironside		68
26	1967	Cimarron Strip		50
27	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
28	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
29	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
30	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
31	1974	The Rockford Files	Warner Jameson	75
32	1976	Origins of the Mafia	The Envoy	0
33	1977	The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries		71
34	1977	The Love Boat	Colonel Van Ryker	63
35	1977	Aspen	Horton Paine	60
36	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Lionel	67
37	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Edward	67