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).
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
77 Sunset Strip
6.7
The Great Adventure
0
Checkmate
4.1
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
The Streets of San Francisco
6.935
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
7.1
General Electric Theater
6.25
Ironside
6.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Bus Stop
0
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
5.8
Cimarron Strip
5
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Kraft Music Hall
4.667
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Dr. Kildare
5.5
Telephone Time
6.3
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
On Trial
5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
6.2
General Electric Theater
6.25
General Electric Theater
6.25
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
Origins of the Mafia
0
What's My Line?
6.9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
V.I.P. Schaukel
6
The Rockford Files
7.5
Aspen
6
The Love Boat
6.3
Hollywood and the Stars
6
Suspicion
5.875
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Movies
Citizen Kane
7.997
The Magnificent Ambersons
7.316
The Third Man
7.915
Touch of Evil
7.753
Lady Frankenstein
5.47
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7.3
Under Capricorn
6.063
Heaven's Gate
6.797
Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y.
4.3
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
5.7
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.147
Baron Blood
6.2
Journey into Fear
6
I'll Be Seeing You
7.068
Shadow of a Doubt
7.5
The Steel Trap
6.4
A Blueprint for Murder
6.122
Airport '77
5.576
Soylent Green
6.945
Duel in the Sun
6.344
Portrait of Jennie
7.108
The Halliday Brand
6.1
Island of the Fishmen
5.6
The Killer Is Loose
6.6
Gaslight
7.481
Guyana: Crime of the Century
4.767
Syndicate Sadists
5.9
Beyond the Forest
6.8
Caravans
5.312
Since You Went Away
6.5
F for Fake
7.422
The Farmer's Daughter
6.9
The Money Trap
5
From the Earth to the Moon
5.179
A Delicate Balance
6.273
The Last Sunset
6.8
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
6.928
The Grasshopper
5.1
White Comanche
4.6
Latitude Zero
5.8
City Beneath the Sea
4.1
Niagara
6.801
The Hearse
5.255
The Man with a Cloak
6.9
The Hellbenders
6.518
September Affair
6.1
Lydia
6.5
The Oscar
5.1
The Scopone Game
7.379
The Survivor
5.2
Twilight's Last Gleaming
6.377
Casino
10
Walk Softly, Stranger
5
Two Flags West
6.2
The Perfect Crime
5.3
The Devil's Daughter
6.5
Love Letters
6.4
Assault on the Wayne
3
The Bottom of the Bottle
5.5
Jack of Diamonds
4.2
Half Angel
5.6
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
5.7
The Screaming Woman
6.7
The Tramplers
5.9
Gangsters '70
7
A Whisper in the Dark
6
The Angel Wore Red
5.3
Peking Express
8
Too Much Johnson
5.3
Untamed Frontier
7.2
Hers to Hold
6.857
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
6.4
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
7
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3
Our American Heritage
0
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
7.1
Last In, First Out
3.4
Alexander The Great
5
Petulia
5.9
Return to Fantasy Island
4.667
Special Delivery
0
Delusion
3.778
Do You Take This Stranger?
5
Timber Tramps
0
Journey to Murder
0
Some May Live
3.5
The Great Sioux Massacre
4.2
Othello
7.345
Concorde Affair
6.6
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
5.5
Doomsday Voyage
0
Churchill and the Generals
0
The Edge of Innocence
0
Egypt by Three
6
The Lonely Profession
0
Split Second to an Epitaph
0
Cutter's Trail
7.5
Mysteries of the Gods
5.6
Police Dog
0
Petulia: The Uncommon Movie
0