Joseph Cotten
Born: 1905-05-15 in Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Died: 1994-02-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr. (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).
Filmography
2018
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self (archive footage)
- The Green Fog
2013
- Too Much Johnson as Augustus Billings (uncredited)
1995
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Baron Frankenstein (archive footage)
1990
- Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as Self (archive footage)
1981
- Delusion as Ivar Langrock
- The Survivor as Priest
1980
- Heaven's Gate as The Reverend Doctor
- The Hearse as Walter Prichard
- Casino as Ed Booker
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Lionel
- Island of the Fishmen as Prof. Ernest Marvin
- Guyana: Crime of the Century as Richard Gable
- All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
- Churchill and the Generals as Gen. George C. Marshall
- Concorde Affair as Milland
1978
- Fantasy Island as Thomas Cummings
- Caravans as Crandall
- The Perfect Crime as Sir Arthur Dundee
- Last In, First Out as Foster Johnson
- Return to Fantasy Island as Simon Grant
1977
- The Love Boat as Colonel Van Ryker
- The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries as Weldon Rathbone
- Airport '77 as Nicholas St. Downs III
- Twilight's Last Gleaming as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
- Aspen as Horton Paine
1976
- Origins of the Mafia as The Envoy
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Dr. Joseph Francis Condon
- A Whisper in the Dark as The Professor
- Mysteries of the Gods as Narrator
- Expedition to Ararat as Self - Host - Narrator
1975
- Syndicate Sadists as Paternò
- Timber Tramps as Greedy sawmill mogul
1974
- The Rockford Files as Warner Jameson
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Soylent Green as William R. Simonson
- F for Fake as Self
- The Devil's Daughter as Judge Weatherby
- A Delicate Balance as Harry
- Police Dog as Narrator
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco as John R. James
- Baron Blood as Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
- The Scopone Game as George
- The Screaming Woman as George Tresvant
- Doomsday Voyage as Captain Jason
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes as Dr. Vesalius
- City Beneath the Sea as Dr. Ziegler
- Lady Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
- Assault on the Wayne as Admiral
- Do You Take This Stranger? as Dr. Robert Carson
- Journey to Murder as Jeff Wheeler
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Henry L. Stimson
- The Grasshopper as Richard Morgan
- Cutter's Trail as General Spalding
1969
- Latitude Zero as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
- The Lonely Profession as Martin Bannister
1968
- The Name of the Game as Henry 'Harry' Worthington Rayner
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
- It Takes a Thief as Col. Heinrich
- Journey to the Unknown as Jeff Wheeler
- Petulia as Mr. Danner
- White Comanche as Sheriff Logan
- Split Second to an Epitaph as Dr. Ben Stern
- Petulia: The Uncommon Movie as Self
- Alexander The Great as Antigonus
- Gangsters '70 as Destil
1967
- Ironside as Dr. Benjamin Stern
- Cimarron Strip as Nathan Tio
- The Hellbenders as Colonel Jonas
- Jack of Diamonds as Ace
- Lionpower from MGM as Self - Ace of Diamonds (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Some May Live as Colonel Woodward
1966
- The Oscar as Kenneth Regan
- Brighty of the Grand Canyon as Jim
1965
- The Great Sioux Massacre as Major Marcus A. Reno
- The Money Trap as Dr. Horace Van Tilden
- The Tramplers as Temple Cordeen
1964
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Drew Bayliss
1963
- The Great Adventure as Captain Meehan
- Hollywood and the Stars as Narrator
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Judge Will McMasters
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Charles Ladovan
- Bus Stop as Professor Wheelwright
- The Last Sunset as John Breckenridge
- Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self (uncredited)
1960
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Mac McClay
- Checkmate as Dr. George Mallinson
- The Angel Wore Red as Hawthorne
1959
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Dick Burlingame
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Arnold Buhler
- Kraft Music Hall as Self
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Black McSween
- Touch of Evil as Coroner (uncredited)
- From the Earth to the Moon as Victor Barbicane
1957
- Wagon Train as Captain Dan Brady
- Suspicion as Gregg Carey
- The Edge of Innocence as Robert Rainey
- The Halliday Brand as Daniel Halliday
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Ben Harper
- Telephone Time
- The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show as Self
- On Trial as Edward Pritchard
- The Killer Is Loose as Detective Sam Wagner
- The Bottom of the Bottle as Pat 'P.M.' Martin
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as William Callew
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Self - Host
- Special Delivery as John Adams
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Self - Guest Host
- General Electric Theater as Paul Henty
- Niagara as George Loomis
- A Blueprint for Murder as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
- Egypt by Three as Narrator
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as John Ashburn
- The Steel Trap as Jim Osborne
- Untamed Frontier as Kirk Denbow
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Othello as Senator (uncredited)
- Half Angel as John Raymond Jr.
- The Man with a Cloak as Dupin
- Peking Express as Michael Bachlin
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Two Flags West as Clay Tucker
- September Affair as David Lawrence
- Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale/Steve
1949
- The Third Man as Holly Martins
- Under Capricorn as Sam Flusky
- Beyond the Forest as Doctor Louis Moline
1948
- Portrait of Jennie as Eben Adams
1947
- The Farmer's Daughter as Glenn Morley
- Our American Heritage as Narrator
1946
- Duel in the Sun as Jesse McCanles
1945
- Love Letters as Allen Quinton
1944
- Gaslight as Brian Cameron
- Since You Went Away as Tony Willett
- I'll Be Seeing You as Zachary Morgan
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt as Charlie Oakley
- Journey into Fear as Howard Graham
- Hers to Hold as Bill Morley
1942
- The Magnificent Ambersons as Eugene Morgan
1941
- Citizen Kane as Jedediah Leland
- Lydia as Michael Fitzpatrick