Joseph Cotten
Born in Petersburg, Virginia, USA — May 15 1905• Died Feb 06 1994
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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…
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Ironside
The Love Boat
Colonel Van Ryker
The Rockford Files
Warner Jameson
Dr. Kildare
Charles Ladovan
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Ben Harper
Tales of the Unexpected
Lionel
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
77 Sunset Strip
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
William Callew
Kraft Music Hall
Checkmate
The Streets of San Francisco
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Mac McClay
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Dick Burlingame
Telephone Time
The Great Adventure
Captain Meehan
Suspicion
Gregg Carey
Bus Stop
Cimarron Strip
Letter to Loretta
Self - Guest Host
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Citizen Kane
Jedediah Leland
Soylent Green
William R. Simonson
The Third Man
Holly Martins
Gaslight
Brian Cameron
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Henry L. Stimson
Airport '77
Nicholas St. Downs III
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Shadow of a Doubt
Uncle Charlie
Aspen
Horton Paine
General Electric Theater
Paul Henty
Touch of Evil
Coroner (uncredited)
Heaven's Gate
The Reverend Doctor
Niagara
George Loomis
Origins of the Mafia
The Envoy
Hollywood and the Stars
Narrator
The Magnificent Ambersons
Eugene Morgan
Duel in the Sun
Jesse McCanles
Othello
Senator (uncredited)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Drew Bayliss
Petulia
Mr. Danner
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Journey into Fear
Howard Graham
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Dr. Vesalius
The Hellbenders
Colonel Jonas
Caravans
Crandall
Portrait of Jennie
Eben Adams
Lydia
Michael Fitzpatrick
Latitude Zero
Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
Casino
Ed Booker
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)
Since You Went Away
Lieutenant Tony Willett
F for Fake
Self
Under Capricorn
Sam Flusky
September Affair
David Lawrence
Delusion
Ivar Langrock
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Ace of Diamonds (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Screaming Woman
George Tresvant
The Halliday Brand
Daniel Halliday
Half Angel
John Raymond Jr.
Beyond the Forest
Doctor Louis Moline
Assault on the Wayne
Admiral
The Devil's Daughter
Judge Weatherby
Island of the Fishmen
Prof. Ernest Marvin
Split Second to an Epitaph
Dr. Ben Stern
The Last Sunset
John Breckenridge
A Delicate Balance
Harry
The Man with a Cloak
Dupin
The Great Sioux Massacre
Major Marcus A. Reno
The Lonely Profession
Martin Bannister
The Oscar
Kenneth Regan
The Grasshopper
Richard Morgan
Return to Fantasy Island
Simon Grant
The Killer Is Loose
Detective Sam Wagner
The Survivor
Priest
Walk Softly, Stranger
Chris Hale/Steve
The Hearse
Walter Prichard
The Steel Trap
Jim Osborne
The Farmer's Daughter
Glenn Morley
The Money Trap
Dr. Horace Van Tilden
Cutter's Trail
General Spalding
Two Flags West
Col. Clay Tucker
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
Special Delivery
John Adams
From the Earth to the Moon
Victor Barbicane
White Comanche
Sheriff Logan
Mysteries of the Gods
Narrator
A Blueprint for Murder
Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
Gangsters '70
Destil
City Beneath the Sea
Dr. Ziegler
Love Letters
Allen Quinton
Too Much Johnson
Augustus Billings
Untamed Frontier
Kirk Denbow
The Bottom of the Bottle
Pat 'P.M.' Martin
On Trial
Hers to Hold
Bill Morley
Churchill and the Generals
Gen. George C. Marshall
Jack of Diamonds
Ace
Alexander The Great
Antigonus
Guyana: Crime of the Century
Richard Gable
The Edge of Innocence
Robert Rainey
I'll Be Seeing You
Zachary Morgan
The Scopone Game
George
The Perfect Crime
Sir Arthur Dundee
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Self
Baron Blood
Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
Last In, First Out
Foster Johnson
Syndicate Sadists
Paternò
Lady Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein
Timber Tramps
Greedy sawmill mogul
Citizen Kane Trailer
himself/Jedediah Leland
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self (uncredited)
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Self
A Whisper in the Dark
The Professor
The Angel Wore Red
Hawthorne
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)
Do You Take This Stranger?
Dr. Robert Carson
Doomsday Voyage
Captain Jason
Peking Express
Michael Bachlin
Concorde Affair
Milland
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
Some May Live
Colonel Woodward
Journey to Murder
Jeff Wheeler
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Jim
Petulia: The Uncommon Movie
Himself
The Tramplers
Temple Cordeen
Egypt by Three
Narrator
Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y.
Police Dog
Narrator
Our American Heritage
Narrator
Expedition to Ararat
Self - Host - Narrator